[Winston A. cely]

This is prooving harder than I thought!

(I’ll post when I have something to look at. I’m still trying to figure out how to post the opening credits so others can look at them….)

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[Winston A. cely]

I’ve done the same (trashed prefs) and that helps a lot, but am I the only one that still suffers from sporadic quirkiness from Boris Title3D ever since we got to FCP5? Seems like ever since that upgrade I have very odd and very sporadic things happen, like not opening, not being able click on the “save” button (I have to click the close window button on the window and then accept changes) constantly getting not enough memory windows, even though 90% of the time FCP is the only app open. Even on rare occasions, it’ll crash FCP. I hate this because I’ve become very accustomed to using Boris for my titles. I hope this gets fixed with FCP6……

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[Winston A. cely]

No worries. Glad I could help you out!

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[Winston A. cely]

What do you mean, I can’t have people do the hard part for me?!!! 😉

Just kidding. I am working on one myself, but though I might throw it out there since it was so similar to the superman titles.

I’ll see if I can’t get a small movie of the opening titles and post it soon.

In all I think it might be easier than the Sups titles, because the Total Recall titles seem more 2D than 3D. Kinda has the fake 3D thing going on.

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[Winston A. cely]

Depending on how much movement your shot has, will determin how much work will go into this. Again, if someone knows a better way to do this, please speak up….

I’d have 2 layers of the same video, the bottom layer I would apply what ever blur filter I wanted, and the top layer I would apply a mask to. The mask would make the bottom layer visible, while keeping your main subject in tack. Now if you have lots of movements, there’s going to be a great deal of keying involved, but that’s where the “Record” button comes in handy with Motion.

I use a very similar work flow when in FCP, because we don’t have some of the nicer plug-in’s that allow you to have only one layer of video (which keeps your renders faster).

Hope this helps in down the right path. 🙂

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[Winston A. cely]

OK. I think I know what’s going on. (If I’m wrong, someone please speak up. 🙂

When you get to the point of wanting to put glows between the clips as transitions, your selecting .motn project files (not .mov files) to send to Motion as one Motion file. I don’t believe you can send a Motion project file into a new Motion project file. What I would do, is after you’ve applied the filters to the clips you have, and would export Full Rez, self-contained QuickTime files from motion. With those exported files, place them into a new timeline, and export that sequence to Motion. I know this adds an extra step, but it may be worth it. Plus, it’ll save on render time.

Again, if anyone sees that I’m wrong on this speak up.

Hope this helps.

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[Winston A. cely]

Wow, thanks for the info! This will help a lot!!!

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[Winston A. cely]

I found this on http://www.bcs.tv:
SONY / BVMD14H1U

It’s in the price range and looks pretty sweet. Anyone had experience with this? Or does it really matter now? Should we just pull the trigger?

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[Winston A. cely]

Blast! Thanks for the clarification and suggestion. I did find the 20″ version on ebay, but it was starting at $7800. I’ll try that http://www.bcs.tv next.

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[Winston A. cely]

Paste Attributes, is one of my all time favorite tools in FCP. Hands down.

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