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Ah! I was looking strictly OS compatibility, like a moron! I’ll go back to 3.4. Thanks!
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
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I actually didn’t have 5.0 installed. I had the driver before that. I’ll take your advise though, and just trash everything and reinstall. Thanks!
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe -
I thought that the MXO was strictly for monitoring HD material on an ACD for “true” color. While the Kona cards and I/O are for capturing and layback to tape. The way I see it, they work independent of each other because the MXO is a good economic way to get precise color on non-CRT monitors. So why wouldn’t you get an MXO AND either the Kona card (of your choice) or I/O?
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe -
I tend to use Title 3D for just about everything, unless I need something elaborate that I can only get in Motion (or in rare cases LiveType). Title 3D is quite powerful and very easy if you know some quick workarounds.
The basic thing to do is to open up Title 3d (Boris) and create your text just the way you like it. Don’t worry about the size or position. Those can be controlled much easier in the Controls Tab than they can be inside the actual Boris editor. You can adjust anything you need to – Scale, Position, Tumble, Spin, Rotate, Opacity, Tracking, etc. The only times I ever go back into the editor are to actually adjust the overall design or if I’ve misspelled something (which is more often than I care to admit… though, I think I just admitted to it….) If I want the titles to move some specific way that a simple transition isn’t going to work, I’ll do it with the controls in the Controls tab. It takes some getting used to but it’s super quick and avoids going into Motion, Photoshop or other program.
Even if you have a ton of titles, all you have to do is past the values from your first clip into the other clips. True, that does take some time, but it’s easier than actually going into the Boris editor.
Having said that, there are some great workarounds in Photoshop (like creating an action to do multiple files) or Motion (like AutoMotion from Digital Heaven). As Walter said, it’s typically project and task specific. It’s super easy for me to use Title 3D, but other find Photoshop easier, so it depends on what you’re comfortable with too.
I guess this didn’t really help answer your question, but hopefully it gave you something to ruminate on! 🙂
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe -
There’s a great article (not just a thread, but an actual article) about this somewhere on the cow. Take a quick search and I’m sure it’ll pop up. Happy Hunting!
Cheers!
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe -
LOL!
I’ve actually got the X1900 XT in mine already, so my new stupid question is: Where are the comparison tests between the X1900 XT with 512MB and the HD 2600 XT with 256MB? And maybe the same test with the Nividia card?
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe -
This is gonna be a really stupid question, but I’m gonna ask it anyway!
These new graphic cards, could I drop one of them into my older Mac Pro 3.0 Dual Core?
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe -
Well, if they release new Macs with Blu-Ray, I sure hope they update DVDSP so it can actually use it.
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe -
Andrea,
Wow, I’m sure glad I haven’t had any of those problems!!! I did experience some glitches with the non-pro version, but that was over a year ago, and I bought the Pro version for my own system and haven’t had any problems. True, having the component out would by far be the best! 😀
Cheers,
WinstonWinston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe -
I thought it was great. I like the consistency in your titles. A lot of times people start throwing titles all over the place and it distracts/detracts from the video. The only critical comment is that one or two shots were a little hard to tell that they were corrected, but that might provide a nice balance in work; i.e. you don’t do just high impact, stylizations, but some more down to earth stuff too.
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe