[Steve Heffner]

Hey Shane & Mike,
Thanks for the info. I tried Motion and, at first, it seemed to do the SAME THING. Finally, I got a good “ease out” by setting all keyframes to “ease out” rather than “bezier”. BUT STILL, after the last keyframe, there’s an ever so slight but ever so noticeable movement (like a small amount of movement and slight zoom out – like 5 pixels maybe.
Any advice? Using Motion would be great but we were disappointed to discover yet another motion “misbehavior”. All we want is a simple zoom in, change center point to focus on specific area of photo, ease out.

HOWEVER — Chris…. we tried the demo for PAN ZOOM PRO (lyric.com) and were VERY pleased with the results — smooth, nice. Easy to use once you get the swing of it and simpler and more cost efficient than going to After Effects. This may be the way to go.

It’s a real shame the the ease in/ease out directly in FCP doesn’t work the way you’d think it would.

Thanks guys,
Steve

[Steve Heffner]

GUYS, THANK YOU ALL thus far… this is helpful.

[Steve Heffner]

Jeremy,
Thanks for the feedback but, yeah, they wouldn’t go for that for several reasons: they are in a different office than the post facility, they need to be able to review on a whim, they may have to watch from any given location (home, office, laptop). Even if they were here at the same office as me, I wouldn’t want them messing with the P2 files on the master drive, even if they were backed up.

[Steve Heffner]

Shane,
Thanks for the info. I wasn’t sure how to handle it.
Using both a Mac Pro and a Powermac (both G5s). Don’t know tech specs yet but will find out.
Thanks again…
Steve

[Steve Heffner]

Thanks. I think that pretty much answers the key questions. Can I do the frame rate conversion with DVC PRO HD FRAME RATE CONVERTER well enough? Or should I just have the director stick it out for the upgrade (another couple weeks) of FCP to eliminate many of the concerns…?

As for “why not upgrading?”…. I appreciate that advice and I will be upgrading in about two more weeks… but I’m working on another project that is only 5.04 at their main site.. That project is larger, more intensive and already set to air… and I don’t want any issues creeping up when swapping project files (from me to them). If this all sounds like intermediate paranoia, it sure is…he heh. Bear with me.

This is all very helpful. Thanks.

Steve

[Steve Heffner]

Hi, we shot in 24p. So, hence the 60fps. That helps. Thank you. So, is it NOT necessary for us to convert the frame rate to get rid of the extra frames? Would this just be a bunch of unnecessary extra work?
Thanks everyone…
Steve