Zak Mussig
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Jim,
HDV can be a huge PITA, and conforming is especially gruesome, but David’s advice is all good.
I just wanted to chime in to say the title of your post is hilarious… I literally laughed out loud.
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Steve and Michael are right. I thought I’d add that you can add a step to this process if you want to move all the keyframes on a clip by the same amount.
Key frames normally move with a clip and you have to drag them individually in the viewer or by group / time in the timeline to move them. You can accomplish moving all of the keyframes at once by: copying the clip, removing the attributes of the clip which apply to the keyframes you’re moving, slipping the clip forward or back the amount you want to move the keyframes, pasting the attributes you had removed back onto the clip, and dragging the in and out of the clip and its position to negate the slip edit you performed.
It seems complicated, but this all happens pretty quickly, and can be much faster than moving a bunch of keyframes and making sure they’re lined up correctly on the other side.
my unsolicited 2 cents,
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Mac Rumors posted some MacBook Air benchmarks the other day… I’d check there. They didn’t do tests with FCP or P2 transfer though. This machine isn’t built for this stuff… it’s a consumer, “look at me” computer.
It’s literally the slowest Mac on the market and it only has one expansion port, 1 USB. You should get a MacBook Pro if you want to use FCP on it.
That’s my two cents,
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Simmie,
This is unrelated… I just wanted to mention that I love that you list your game consoles with your workstation in your sig. Awesome.
Zak
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Hey Adam,
When I’ve had to export lots of stills I make a bin, make freeze frames (Shift-N) and drag them into the bin. Then I batch export as whatever file type I need and use Automator to rename them. The only slow-ish part is dragging the freeze frame.
Hope that helps,
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I agree with Arnie that this probably won’t look “right” unless it’s done in a 3D app.
If you’re looking to do it in Motion I would try a replicator. Make your “pearl” with a highlight toward one side and have each pearl on the “string” (your animated replicator shape) spina bit to simulate a changing perspective relative to the light source.
I can’t think of any silver bullet for the heart, but I’d animate shapes and mask them with the heart object to try and simulate highlights.
Hope that helps,
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I’ll be THAT guy…
I installed it and I’m having no problems. I didn’t install QT 7.4, just the ProKit update. I’m also staying away from iTunes 7.6 as I believe it requires QT 7.4.
I definitely agree that there should have been more information about this update than “install this if you run ANY Apple pro app.” It’s like they designed the sentence to scare off the people the update was meant for.
Zak
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Mark,
This is kinda a shot in the dark, but have you checked the speeds of our PCIe slots? System > Library > CoreServices > Expansion Slot Utility
I only have the Geforce 7300, but maybe the ATI card needs to use the full speed of the bus.
Zak
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I have that Powerbook, and I doubt you could get it to reliably playback 720p with a high quality file.
A lot of people are talking about playback through FCP, but I’m assuming you just want to export to some delivery format and just open the file in QuickTime. Assuming you have the computers already, I’d try exporting to MPEG4 and h.264 at various bitrates and see what you can get to playback.
This in anecdotal but, in my experience, my powerbook handles MPEG 4 beter than h.264 since it’s so processor intensive to decompress.
You could also just try downloading some trailers from Apple’s site at different frame sizes and see if they’ll play back. If they do, just look at the settings and use those. They’re encodes are always really good.
Zak
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Just for anyone who read the post over the weekend…
I replaced the XDCAM EX footage with a copy I exported from FCP with the animation codec, and the shot exported with no problems. So FYI, be cautious with XDCAM EX footage in Motion.
I won’t go so far as to say it doesn’t work right, or there is some specific bug, because this could easily be some issue specific to my system. But This clip with several animated masks had lots of render and export problems.
Zak