[Todd Gillespie]

Here’s a link to one Wiggler tutorial. There are about 6 more that you can easily find by searching in the tutorial section of the cow.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/tierney_jim/wiggler.php
Actually, you’re not creating that many keyframes; one for your starting position-copy and past for the end position (add a wiggle for the middle); new keyframe for the new position start-copy and paste for the end position (wiggle in the middle); etc, etc. Even for 3 different positions, it’s only 6 keyframes-and half are a copy of the first? 3 new keyframes. Doesn’t sound like much to me?

That’s amazing that the movie was a student project.

Cheers,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

There’s no direct magic to export out of FCP to a DVD recorder. You CAN hook up a DVD recorder much in the same way that you would hook up a VHS player. Either with a card or converter, through a deck, etc. We have an DVD recorder hook up to everyone of our edit suites.

The only way you’re going to get HD out of FCP is if you have an HD output, then you’d need to have a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD recorder that could take that HD output.

Of course you can always go through Compressor and get any file you want. DVD, HD, etc.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

If nothing else, thanks for the link-it was a great short!

If you are trying to whip a camera around-as in the end credits, then YES you will need to add keyframes for every move to a new position. The slight jiggle the camera does at each position can be done with the wriggler-so you don’t need to add keybrames for that.

Hope this helps,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

First off, are you going to edit the footage before you display it? If not, you’re better off running it off of a deck or camera.

If you are going to edit the video, then show it at the reception (which is called a “Same Day Edit”-in the Event Video business), you’re on the correct track.

I skipped over HDV, but I’ve done the Same Day Edits, and even if I told you that you ‘could’ render the file out fast-you’d still need to check for yourself BEFORE the wedding. The last one I did, I was using DV and even then, it’s really tight to knock out a fast edit. I added one motion picture for the opening and thought it was going to take forever. Point is, you’re going to need all the time you have just to edit, so you don’t want to wait too long for the video to render.

Also, keep in mind you’ll need to run a mini audio out of your computer to a PA for sound. I use QTPro and “present’ the video through that.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

I believe the shaking you’re refering to is an interlacing problem.
Try applying the Flicker filter or the De-Interlace filter. Also you might try slowing down or speeding up the titles-as that sometimes helps.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Sorry,
I didn’t see the repost.

Yes, just uncheck self contained.

Good Luck,

Todd

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

CAUTION!!

Pay attention to what Rusell said!
Also-having gone through a trumendous amount of research while looking for a good graphics card-you’ll really need to understand how many monitors you’ll want to connect and how they will contect!!!
I needed to connect 2 VGA monitors through my older G5, and there is not that many choices-I believe one? This will also be a problem for anyone with a G5 with an AGP who wants dual monitors. Almost all of the remaining AGP cards will have one DVI or VGA connector and one ADC connector. The problem is unless you have a very old ADC to VGA connector, you’re not going to be able to connect anything to the other AGP card output-giving you only one monitor.

I believe if you’re going to use 2 DVIs, you’ll still have some good options.
FYI

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Yes,

Changing the FCP master volume will affect the volume of your program/sequence.
Every editing system/suite that I’ve built ALWAYS has a mixer. Otherwise you’ll run into the problem that you are discribing. Plus it’s easier to control analogue sources through an audio mixer.

You can pickup a small Berninger mixer for under $100. Since you have powered speakers, you won’t need an amp.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Scott,

I’m not sure which part of the process you want explained…so I guess I’ll try to cover it all.

When exporting out of FCP, you DON’T need to create a self-contained file. Since you are going to use it in AE then render a new file out of AE, the FCP export file is really an intermediate file that will never be used on it’s own. Hence the quickest, smallest, and easiest file is best. When exporting out a ‘by reference’ (not self contained) file will be very small, it will export out faster, and the file will function the same as a normal self-contained file. By reference files can get you into trouble because they will always need the original files (digitized media) to play properly.

Out of AE I will usually render to the Animation Codec. One, I tend to have alpha channels, but more importantly the video/animation will look better when rendered out to Animation, then converted to DV in FCP. Plus, for us at least, we may only need a video in DV quality now, but maybe in a couple of months or next year, we might want the same video in a better codec. By keeping the ‘master’ video/animation in a higher quality, you are giving yourself better options down the road.

I hope I was clear enough.

Cheers,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

If I’m doing the math correctly…you have 12 layers with motion/animation? and you want constant realtime playback?
I think you’re beyond the realtime capabilities of most edit systems, even for DV. I’m sure it’s not taking that long to render, but I do understand the frustration.
The problem is that even though you only change one value on one layer, it changes the ENTIRE composite that FCP is doing, so of course it will need to re-render everything.

Some edit systems will have a ‘processing heirarchy’ which will allow them to only ‘process (same as rendering)’ the layers that are above the changes. It’s very cool.

The way you can achieve a similar workflow would be to ‘lock’ down the layers that you don’t need to change and create a movie/still of that composite, therefore cutting down on your total layers.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production