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Re: Motion - Animating Photoshop Layers in Z-Space (Movie) - by Mark Spencer - 16 years ago
According to the redux tutorial; the resolution of the PS file must equal the res that you set as the default. ie 720x486 PS for a 720x486 Motion file. Believe me; this DOES make a difference. Dean Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wondering if this is the problem I am having > although my PS files are from a Mac and even from > Motion 3 fast forwby mark@avolution - Motion
Re: Video Wall Tutorial with Stills- Can It be done with video clips? - 16 years ago
This works as described; but just like 3d studio max, it will suffer from the S_L_O_W SYNDROME; as it tries to update to the screen 25 discreet video images. It works in theory; but just like 3d Studio Max; don't expect anywhere near realtime playback. I experimented and will move on. Thanksby mark@avolution - Motion
Video Wall Tutorial with Stills- Can It be done with video clips? - 16 years ago
In the tutorial on applemotion.net where you set up a 5x5 grid and load up your 25 pictures all scaled appropriately, I have a question. To get the replicator to work without frame motion on the stills, you must disable the "play frames", so that the camera will show a matrix of 25 different pictures. Now, instead of 25 pics you substitutes 25 QT movies, you would to my understby mark@avolution - Motion
Re: Green fuzz in the display - 16 years ago
Ohh! You are using wallpaper, I recommend you cover this with tongue and groove (not tongue-in -cheek) paneling. This will cover this ugly green wallpaper. J.Corbett Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > my res is 1680x1050 > veiwsonic 22" > ati x1900 vram 512mb > > i keep getting a greenish fuzz that is most > prevalent in thby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Motion 3 and Mac Pro - 16 years ago
Could this video card be installed on a Power PC G5 Dual 2.5Ghz Mac? I find the stock one to be kind of slow markspencer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The 3870 is the way to go. We just installed 3 of > them at DvGarage last week. The only tricky part > is that the power cord is a little bit difficult > to connect to the motherboard. &gby mark@avolution - Motion
OT-Realtime Blue-ray recorders? - 16 years ago
You know how you can fire up FCP for an SD project and output directly to a realtime DVD recorder! Are there Blue-ray versions out there that will allow me to realtime record (via the Kona2 card) to a a desktop Blue-ray recorder?by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Motion - Animating Photoshop Layers in Z-Space (Movie) - by Mark Spencer - 16 years ago
You are right the res of motion has to equal the photoshop file.by mark@avolution - Motion
Re: Motion - Animating Photoshop Layers in Z-Space (Movie) - by Mark Spencer - 16 years ago
Interestingly enough; if you bring the layers in as flattened, the Motion chooses to work as advertised! But no go on PC imported photoshop files if they contain multiple layers.by mark@avolution - Motion
Motion - Animating Photoshop Layers in Z-Space (Movie) - by Mark Spencer - 16 years ago
Please note that if you bring in a multi-layered photoshop file from either PC based Photoshop 5.5 or CS1, the apple-dolly will not automatically scale the layer as it pulls away or towards the camera. As we do not have photoshop on the Mac ,this has been a disappointment; as the effect clearly works in the video tutorial; and it is also clear that Photoshop is the Mac version. I wondeby mark@avolution - Motion
Re: fixed resolution for 3d layers? - 16 years ago
Well, lets say you have expanding particles or effects that go outside the camera fulstrum. With the 2D fixed resolution, anything outside the viewable area is culled or clipped and this save time and memory. Basically, Motion should be able to camera-cull anything outside the viewable area to the limits of the canvas-which after all if always only equal to what you can see. markspencby mark@avolution - Motion
fixed resolution for 3d layers? - 16 years ago
For 2D layers you can turn on fixed resolution to clamp a layer to a fixed res, say 720x486. When you switch to 3D, is there a function that locks the camera to the same parameters? Thanksby mark@avolution - Motion
Re: MOV to SWF is there any free software out there? - 16 years ago
If you have access to a Windows PC, get Super, it is GNU license and is great! Luie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I need to convert an MOV to a SWF. > > Is there any free software out there? > > Thank you.by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: can't apply filter globally - 16 years ago
What FCP needs is what 3d Studio Max has with its parametric modifiers; which in this case would be equivalent to a filter. Let's say you create a cube (let's say for analogy sake that a cube=a clip in FCP) and then you apply a modifier (say bend) and then you create another cube. You can copy the modifier from CubeA to CubeB as either a copy or an instance. If it is an instance, then ifby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Apple releases ProRes Quicktime decoder 1.0 - 16 years ago
So follow me on this one. You could export a QT as ProRes from FCP; port it to a Windows PC, and use DVDit and do a full 1080p Blu-Ray then. The reason I mention this is I have not been able to find a Mac DVD authoring software that does 1080p (Both Toast Ti BD and DVDSP HDDVD are a max res of 1080i) Anyhow this may be may way around the 1080i barrier. Thanks for the heads up!by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Accessing the Text Layer - 16 years ago
EDIT-sorry it is morning, you want to acess it from the canvas. I wish I could remove this reply.... In the layer dropdown on the timeline, select the layer called Text, open up the inspector, and find the text entry box. Edit the text from here. ClayC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is there a tip/trick to be able to access a type > layer inby mark@avolution - Motion
Re: acessing all 3 co-ordinates for a spline or paint stroke. - 16 years ago
Is there a way to invert the y-z axis in Motion? 3d Studio Max's y parameter is Motion's z parameter; because Motion uses the Left Handed Cartesian Rule; whilst Max uses the Right Hand Rule. As I have been using 3ds Max or 3d Studio DOS since 1992 this is really throwing me for a loop.by mark@avolution - Motion
Re: acessing all 3 co-ordinates for a spline or paint stroke. - 16 years ago
That's what I want; thanks for the help! markspencer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You aren't missing anything - Paint is actually > created on a 2-D plane in 3D space. > > If you want to create a stroke or particles in 3D, > use a 3D emitter with the Motion Path behavior - > you'll see that it has all three x,y,z coordinates &gby mark@avolution - Motion
acessing all 3 co-ordinates for a spline or paint stroke. - 16 years ago
When I draw a spline or paint stroke in Motion 3, and access the Shape?Geometry, it only gives me two of the 3 parameters to edit in 3d space. Am I missing something? If these paint strokes are 3d, I need to access all these points in 3D (Point01..........Pointnn) (x.y,z)by mark@avolution - Motion
Re: Video Card too slow? - 16 years ago
Check out this link...this is where I got the info; it is about 2 paragrpahs down Jeff Harrell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't believe that's actually true. Final Cut > gives you the option of forcing all renders to > 10-bit, forcing all renders to 8-bit, or rendering > in 10-bit only when one of the underlying layers > isby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Video Card too slow? - 16 years ago
By default the ProRes HQ or ProRes default to 10 bit render; but I switched this in Render/Settings; and the issue went away! I learn so much from this forum! strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > >The system is a Dual 2.5Ghz PPC G5 with 2G Ram > and a ATI RADEON 9800 XT > >with 256M Ram. > > Think I had this on a similar sby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Video Card too slow? - 16 years ago
Good call; I will try that in Render/Settings. I have read on the net that very, very few of the effects or transitions in FCP are 10 bit anyway! I will try this... strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > >The system is a Dual 2.5Ghz PPC G5 with 2G Ram > and a ATI RADEON 9800 XT > >with 256M Ram. > > Think I had this on aby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Video Card too slow? - 16 years ago
For the original XDCAM sequence; no issues were noticed; only with taking the ingested and filtered XDCAM footage from the rendered XDCAM sequence and dropping it on a new ProRes timeline. As for the minimum requirements I have checked the internet and have not found these in regards to ProRes. Thanks Chuck Spaulding Wrote: -------------------------------------------------------by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Video Card too slow? - 16 years ago
That was the next thing I tried, and it came up with the same messages with ProRes medium on the 6 second test scene. Again, it says the effect "vignette" can not be rendered with the present hardware. Even on apple.com the video card is listed as being alright for Motion 3! As it is a timed piece, set back in 1850s, the producer used the vignette effect throughout; and I amby mark@avolution - Café LA
Video Card too slow? - 16 years ago
As an experiment I set-up a new sequence as ProRes HQ 24p to import some test footage from an XDCAM 24p timeline to see if ProRes would mitigate some problems which seemed like frame stutter. Not knowing better at the time; the XDCAM Cinelata footage was edited on an XDCAM 24p timeline and then finally exported as a ProRes HQ 24 QT; and the system never complained. The system is a Dualby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: XDCAM and ProRes 422 HQ - 16 years ago
What I meant is that the movie that was done was ingested to an XDCAM codec; as I did not know about ProRes at the time. Therefore anything that came out of the movie would have to have been transcoded from the timeline codec of XDCAM to the finishing codec of ProRes. Francois-Michel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I dont really understand what yby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: XDCAM and ProRes 422 HQ - 16 years ago
Thanks for the info! Do you find the export as ProRes422 HQ to be insanely long proRes to proRes; since the project is done (and the timeline was XDCAM and not proRes) here is what I found XDCAM timeline to XDCAM codec out (the old way) 13minutes30 movie HD on an Apple G5 2.5Ghz, 2G Ram SCSI320 RAID time to output XDCAM to XDCAM about 30 minutes to export from XDCAM to ProRes HQby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Creation of a DCP 2398 PSF - 16 years ago
I think he is alluding to 23.976fps video. I googles your term DCP 2398 PSF and came up dry. Do you know what frame rate your video is in? ditzydame Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hello, > > I'm looking at trying to do a screening at the > Lammle theater. The man who they are bringing in > to do digital projections says that heby mark@avolution - Café LA
XDCAM and ProRes 422 HQ - 16 years ago
We are doing somw work in XDCAM 1080 24p. For settings am I better off a)Setting the Sequence to XDCAM 1080p 24 with Render Set to ProRes. OR b) Setting my Sequence to ProRes 1080 24p from the getgo? I have heard ProRes smokes XDCAM for generational (rendering) integrity. As XDCAM is a long format GOP I am thinking that staying native ProRes and rendering all the XDCAM to ProResby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: blu ray newbie seeking advice w/ FCP output - 16 years ago
Would one of the Kona 10bit uncompressed be more appropriate? Jeff Harrell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well, you do have the choice of whether to subject > your footage to a second heavy compression pass. > > Can you lay XDCAM back off to XDCAM again? Sure, > it's a free country. Should you? No.by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: blu ray newbie seeking advice w/ FCP output - 16 years ago
Is it OK to edit in the native XDCAM settings (ie: XDCAM 1080p24 for 24p footage) EXPORT as QT Same Settings, No recompress, Self Contained and then take this into compressor. I have not seen too much generation loss in this method; but thereagain as an animator for years I have always poo-pooed any and all compression. For example, when you export a animation sequence from 3ds Max;by mark@avolution - Café LA
