[Stephen Smith]

Gareth, I agree. I purchased Motion 5 the day it came out and then switched back to Motion 4 within an hour. I spend much more time in After Effects because of this.

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[Max]
Perfect then the TV is out of the way. Like I wrote, I was initially looking for just a screen to expand my work area. But I do been doing more and more color grading so maybe I should make more of an investment. Cause I ultimately want to set up a very basic postproduction studio/area at home. What are your thoughts on this?

I hope this will be of help: Consumer Video Monitors Versus Broadcast Monitors

In most cases, when you want to simply monitor your video signal as it will look to the
audience, any standard NTSC or PAL video monitor is appropriate, and there are many
inexpensive models to choose from. When performing critical tasks such as color
correction, however, you should use a high-resolution broadcast monitor that can be
properly calibrated to display your signal consistently and accurately.

Broadcast monitors offer manual control over every aspect of the video signal being
displayed, including brightness, chroma, phase, and contrast. Additionally, broadcast
monitors can often display different parts of the signal using modes such as blue only
(only the blue gun traces the screen; the green and red guns are turned off ), underscan,
and H/V delay. Without these controls to accurately calibrate your broadcast monitor’s
display with the signal being output from your computer, you run the risk of making
bad color correction decisions based on an inaccurate view of your program’s picture.

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[Stephen Smith]

You are in luck. iPhoto will build a moving photo slide show for you in seconds. The have some really cool features. Here is a link about it: https://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/what-is.html Best of luck.

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[Stephen Smith]

The first NLS that I was able to work on was Adobe Premiere 5.0. After working with it for a little bit a friend introduced me to After Effects 4. I’ve come a long ways with After Effects. I remember playing with the rain filter on a clip that was shot during the day with no rain. I’m sure you can imagine how well it turned out :-). Later on I took a class on SFX and After Effects was briefly mentioned and the instructor showed us how to make a clip look like a bunch of shattering bricks. Fast forward to now, I use it all the time and it plays a role in almost every project I do. Just like this book trailer I created.

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[Stephen Smith]

I agree with Alan.

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[Stephen Smith]

I’ve become a big fan of Audiojungle.net and you can’t beat their prices. Istockphoto also gives away a free track each month.

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[Stephen Smith]

You settings in your original timeline is probably set to the setting closest to the RAW codec you where using. Easiest way is to create a new sequence. Drag a ProRes 422 clip into the timeline and when FCP asks to match the clip setting say yes. At that point you can copy all of the clips from the old sequence and paste it in the new one that matched the prores clips or you can now look at the sequence settings and change your old sequence to the same settings. I hope I made some sense. Best of luck.

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[Stephen Smith]

You don’t have to remove everything that was installed with Motion. Refer back to that article and keep your fingers crossed. I’m so sorry, a re-install is not fun.

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[Stephen Smith]

Sorry about the bad news. You can use Compressor, Mpeg streamclip (free) or FCP Log & Transfer which may require an additional plug-in based on your camera. I like converting the files to ProRes. You can convert the files to ProRess and keep the same name. Then make it so the computer can’t find the old clips and place the new ProRes clips in there place and then the next time you open FCP it should just reconnect to the new files. Hope this helps and best of luck.

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[Stephen Smith]

Your footage should not have a red bar. Did you log and transfer the footage? FCP 7 doesn’t work with RAW files so everything needs to be converted before you work with it.

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