Steve Crow
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Hi Shane, yes that should have worked but what’s different about this situation is that the Reconnect Media dialog box at the top is looking for the deleted RENDER file, not the original source file – that’s why this is so strange.
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Yes, I tried reconnect but it only wanted to reconnect the Render files not the source video file which was strange.
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Well that was the original problem that when I tried to reconnect the media in the browser window it actually only wanted to look for and reconnect the RENDER file not the original source file, so the answer is that no I couldn’t ever get FCP to recognize the new location of the files which is at the core of my problems.
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Thank you Walter for taking the time to respond…no I didn’t do anything like that in the timeline, all I essentially was delete the render files, move entire projects to a new drive and then re-opened the project whereupon I discovered the problem. I am still not 100% sure why this happened but at least I seem to have a workaround.
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It looks like selecting the clips in the browser with a red slash and then do a “batch capture” (right click) is doing the trick
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Yes, excellent ideas including the “push the wall” concept which reminded me of the flicking hand gestures used on the iphone.
The hosts are only walking between segments, the rest of the time they are stationary – they are basically walking from one scene or “set” to the next but the majority of the time they are standing there talking to each other, drawing on the whiteboard and watching videos that appear on the whiteboard wall.
I think what I needed to do was, in part, to “zoom out” in the opening scene to first establish the size of the “world” in which they are standing – which would mean using a large green screen to build a virtual set behind them showing a huge whiteboard wall fading off into the distance.
Each time they moved from set to set it would be in this zoomed out view with them shrunk down in size to give a sense of proportion. Once they stopped at a new part of the whiteboard (the next “set”) then I could zoom back in to a normal view.
In any case none of this was going to happen filming in front of a long conference room whiteboard which is what we did…the effect I wanted wasn’t pulled off but it for sure was a learning experience.
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I’ve done a quick test using the “Chroma Keyer” filter in the visual mode and I can see that it will work – however is there a way to limit the filter effect to just a portion of the frame, in other words to only key out a limited area of the white wall instead of the whole wall?
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David – can you recommend any relatively easy to use and free rotoscoping tools for either FCP or Motion?
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Ahhh – so the arm is not so much going behind the video – rather it is being cut off because it has strayed into the area defined by the matte?
So then you are probably right, I would have to rotoscope at least the arm moving and place that on a higher track! I see now, thank you very much!
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Thanks Victor for your suggestions and I will indeed check out Mocha.
Can you explain why the hand is still going BEHIND the video if the video playing on the wall is on the lowest track? That part doesn’t make any sense to me…