[Zak Mussig]

Rich,

Once you get an alpha channel into your graphic with a luma key, or by using a trave matte, You could try putting a slight blur on your alpha channel to get rid of your jaggies.
Use a gaussian blur… just change the default Alpha and RGB setting to Alpha. You probably won’t want to do anything too drastic, but a little can do a lot of good.

Zak

[Zak Mussig]

Andrew,

Sounds like you’re dealing with a lot of footage in the multi-clip. My, admittedly untested, idea for using footage from a camera that doesn’t record the whole time, and / or has timecode breaks in multiclip is to set the footage up the old fashioned FCP “multi-clip” way… stack ’em and sync ’em.

With your matching timecode, you may only need to use one other shot on V1 (say a master shot or drop shot) and sync up your roving clips on V2 in the correct places.

Once that’s done, delete the clip from V1, or turn the track off, and export a reference movie. Import the reference movie and use that for your multi-clip editing.

If the performance isn’t there, you could export self-contained… it seems as if you have the disk space. When it comes to recapturing, since it sounds like you won’t stick with DV, you’ll have to go back to the setup sequence, and recapture from that. You’ll probably also have to re-export, and reconnect your multi-clip to that.

I realize that may sound a little sketchy, and there is a hole or two in that workflow, but that might help your load times / crashes.

Zak

[Zak Mussig]

So I gave Kevin’s suggestion a shot this morning, and the images still stuttered. I was really hoping that would take care of it… it made a lot of sense.
While I’m plugging away clip by clip adjusting keyframes to work around this for now, does anyone else have any experience with issues like this (still image keyframe problems in HDV / HD), and what was the outcome of your situation.
Beyond wanting the job done, I’m also just curious now about what is happening in my timeline. I would really like to walk away from this with a confidence that I can get pictures to do what I want in FCP at any resolution.

Thanks Again
Zak

[Zak Mussig]

Thanks Kevin,
I’d figured it had something to do with my image files, but had no real idea what to do about it. Thanks for the help, I appreciate it a lot… this drove me nuts all of Friday.
Thanks again,
Zak

[Zak Mussig]

Thanks for the help Sean. I finally figured it out after about 25 minutes or so, and spent the rest of the day trying to find a workaround for the other problem… no such luck so far.

I’ve been using FCP for 5 years or so, and I never knew you could open nested sequences in the viewer and apply motion settings, filters, etc. Kinda embarrased about that now, but I guess you learn something new every day, huh?

Thanks again,
Zak