[Stephen Smith]

[AJ]
Stephen smith, the problem with what you said is that Motion 5 cannot export to an animation.

AJ, re-read what I wrote. I never wrote that Motion 5 exports the Animation codec. Motion 4 can do Animation and ProRess 4444 set to Millions +. That is one of the many reasons I nuked Motion 5 from my machine 30 minutes after I installed it. But as you have learned. Motion 5 can still do ProRes 4444 which I said it could.

[AJ]
Plus, from Motion, there is no option to chose for Millions of colors +

I don’t have Motion 5, but if there is a transparent Alpha channel then it is set to Million of color +. Click on the Advanced button and then you will get an option to change its depth. You can have an Animation or ProRes 4444 clip with out a transparency if you wanted to.

I’m happy to help and best of luck.

[AJ]
Also, for users who don’t have FCP like me or want to put up keyed footage for others to use, you want to be able to export with a trans BKG.

Once again, re-read what I wrote. I gave you two options…not one. I never said you shouldn’t export out a clip, other wise I would have never told you how to do it.

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[Stephen Smith]

Here is a link to a tutorial to help you prepare your sequences to go from FCP to color. by Walter Biscardi.

Also, if you just need to color correct a few shots then you only need to bring in those shots. Other wise you will need to convert the stock footage shots to a codec Color will use. Best of luck.

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[Stephen Smith]

Thanks Kevin, I did that this morning with another request.

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[Stephen Smith]

Color does an amazing job at this. Also DaVinci Resolve Light is free….plus it is software that is still supported.

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[Stephen Smith]

DVD is 4:3 and HD is 16×9 so it will letter box it. You can set it so if the DVD is played on a 16×9 TV it will feel the screen completely with no letter boxing and in this case pillar boxing. You can set it to Pan and Scan and that is like a center cut so the sides get cut off….I hate Pan and Scan. You have these three option in DVD studio pro. where you looking to do one of these?

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[Stephen Smith]

You can bypass all of this and just import the Motion project file in FCP and it will keep it transparent.

If you need a video clip then simply just export out the project as a ProRes 4444 or Animation codec set to Millions +. I thought if you are on Motion 5 then Animation isn’t an option. There are other codecs but I find that to be the easiest.

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[Stephen Smith]

Thanks, I hope they fix that in the next version.

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[Stephen Smith]

Chris and Ann, thanks for your help and quick reply. I’m a FCP refugee looking for a new place to land my feet.

[Chris]
I believe Adobe has basically ignored these types of features because of the insanely powerful dynamic-link to After Effects.

I love the dynamic-link feature and I’m very familiar with After Effects. However, I’m cutting a 30 minute long video shot behind a white back ground and need to cut out the edge of the shot that isn’t static. Being able to add a feather to the mask will solve my problem real quick. Sending it to AE could create over 100 AE project files. That’s not good. Programing Premiere to add a feather to a garbage matte really shouldn’t be the hard.

The alternative that you jokingly called “so super simple” may just have to work. What a pain in the…

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[Stephen Smith]

If you go to the Inspector and click on the Text tab and then the Style button you can change the Face color right there.

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[Stephen Smith]

Take a look at this corporate video open I did.
Notice that their feet line up in the reflection even though they shouldn’t. I used the puppet tool to stretch the feet in the area where they do not connect. Depending on the amount of movement in your green screen subject this can be a time consuming task but it will look like a reflection really should. Hope this made sense and best of luck.

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