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Scroll through fonts like you can in Photoshop - 14 years ago
I need a way to choose a font, and that is what I mean by scroll. So far in Macworld, I have to select a font, say nah, reselect typeface, say nah again. It is taking forever, is there a way in motion where I can scroll through my choices like the way you can in Photoshop, 3ds Max, etc. thanksby mark@avolution - Motion
Re: Importing JPEGs / change import settings? - 14 years ago
2048x2048 is the drop dead max for both my FCP and Motion. Apple G5 Dual 2.5Ghz with 2G Ram OSx 10.411 FCP 6.02 Motion 6.02 Graphics card stock 9800 strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I googled around a bit. I guess the 2048x2048 > rendering message was caused by a slow graphics > card I was working on.by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Vector Graphics in Motion? - 14 years ago
ai's will not work from a pc generated source, however. Apple should try to have the Adobe products work with PC and Macs alike. When I discovered that my Adobe CS4 Suite ai's did not work in Motion, I stopped using both for now (I still use FCP and 3ds max) markspencer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Absolutely, you can import .ai or .pdf vector &by mark@avolution - Motion
Re: Animating across 3 screens - 14 years ago
Good luck with that res! We completed a three-screen project for a museum with three projectors. I wanted to go (800x600)x 3 screens 2400x600 but FCP complained about this res I ended up masking left, centre, right in FCP with the sequence set to 2048x512 and upressing the ProRes after the fact. ClayC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What is theby mark@avolution - Motion
Re: Auto Render Full - 14 years ago
One trick I use, is select the entire timeline. Then Render/Selected/Full. This works for me, try it! jamesnw Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi all- > I have ~120 sequences that I want to render to > Full- where if you have Full checked under Render > All, it will render even the gray-ish green parts > of the timeline. Auto Renderby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: codec quality in Motion 3 clip - 14 years ago
SPAM ALERT! SPAM ALERT! SPAM ALERT! maybe0715 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > gossip girl dvd 1-3 > curb your enthusiam dvd 1-7 > how I met your mother dvd 1-5by mark@avolution - Motion
Re: Using overlays created in Photoshop - 14 years ago
PSDs come in flattened if they are created on a PC. We have been dogged by this "feature" forever. Nick Meyers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i wonder why the PSD isn't working? > it should re-size it self to fit. > > PSD's come into FCP as nested sequences > (reflecting the layers in the file, even if > there's only onby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Quicktime File from FCP not playing on new IMAC - 14 years ago
And ProRes will work on any Windows XP r2 or better machine! strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > >I need to give them the same as source file so > they can take it and covert it down to flash for > their website. > > In that case encode a ProRes file. The ProRes > decoder is availalble with any recent updates of > Quicktby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: OT: 4:4;4 THE FUTURE OF VIDEO?????? - 14 years ago
Yep, not XDCAM-but still 4:4:4; which is much closer to what you get when you click Render Scene from 3ds Max or Autodesk Maya. (and I always love to compare apples to oranges) >: Graeme Nattress Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes it's HD, but not XDCAM - no in-built > recording. And it's rather old being used on the > last of the new Sby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: OT: 4:4;4 THE FUTURE OF VIDEO?????? - 14 years ago
This is the link to the HD camera, it says it is HD Graeme Nattress Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's an F950 - getting on a bit now..... Not > XDCAM. > > Graemeby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: OT: 4:4;4 THE FUTURE OF VIDEO?????? - 14 years ago
I must be tired..for two days I was all excited about a successor to the Sony F-330, F-350 camera. I best learn how to read better! Have you had snow yet in Ottawa? Way colder than balmy Sarnia, right across the river from Port Huron, Michigan! Graeme Nattress Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's an F950 - getting on a bit now..... Not >by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: OT: 4:4;4 THE FUTURE OF VIDEO?????? - 14 years ago
The new Sony HDC F-950 looks interesting, this is 4:4:4 Graeme Nattress Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > AFAIK, XDCAMs are MPEG2 based, and 4:2:2, so they > do chroma sub-sample. > > If you think about it, chroma sub-sampling is > "just" old analogue compression, although now > performed digitally. It works, but it's crude.by mark@avolution - Café LA
OT: 4:4;4 THE FUTURE OF VIDEO?????? - 14 years ago
As someone who started in 3d Studio Dos, I have always been used to uncompressed full RGB targa outputs-it wasn't until the animation had to hit the video world that the Assembled sequence would have to be compressed. I am happy to see that new XDCAMs are now 4:4:4 (no chroma-re sampling) This is a step up from 4:2:0, no doubt. Anyhow, I digress, does anyone think that 4:4:4 will be tby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Correct Sequence Settings for XDCAM 1440x1080 23.976 in ProRes - 14 years ago
No problem with prores, even anamorphic. strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > >So, there is no render going on in FCP. > > There is because you are rendering to a different > codec. There is no scaling/resizing if you use the > 1440x1080 preset. I'm not sure if Premiere can > handle an anamorphic ProRes HD file, but it &gby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Correct Sequence Settings for XDCAM 1440x1080 23.976 in ProRes - 14 years ago
Thanks very much. My other editor is using Adobe Premiere on a PC i7, and can not read the XDCAM codec natively, so I thought I would set up a prores timeline and export directly to a directory on the PC. So, there is no render going on in FCP. I plopped all the raw footage on the prores timeline (at present 1440x1080 24p prores) then sent it to a batch export to his drive. I wasby mark@avolution - Café LA
Correct Sequence Settings for XDCAM 1440x1080 23.976 in ProRes - 14 years ago
Hi! I'd like to know which of these timelines I should be using for XDCAM (35MB) 1440x1080 @23.976fps on a ProRes Timeline 1) aja kona2 1080psf 23.98 prores 2)apple prores 1440x1080 24p Thanksby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Render Madness in ProRes 422 - 14 years ago
If your video is SD, I would recommend using an SD timeline, and scaling HD down to fit. Brad Johnson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks very much. I understand that the DVD > sources will be SD. I also have hi-def Quicktime > elements. I'm not sure of the resolution of the > graphics and the web elements. I have pulled and > transby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: OT: DVFilm Releases DVFilm EPIC I For Mac - 14 years ago
If this means no ProRes 422 at all for other non-epic timelines; then NO THANKS! Jeff Harrell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Important Note: Epic "overrides" the ProRes 422 > decoder, so Quicktimes encoded with ProRes 422 > cannot be played back with Epic installed. However > ProRes 422 (HQ), ProRes 422 (LT), or ProRes 422 > (by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: sphere filter in 3D - 14 years ago
One problem Motion 4 has is it is 2D objects in 3D Space. With programs like 3ds Max, you have True 3D objects in 3D Space. To get the effects you describe in a 2.5D program like Motion require more workarounds. Maybe Motion 5 will add some 3D primitives like a sphere AND 3D mapping parameters. Benjamin Meyer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yeby mark@avolution - Motion
Re: Premier Cs5 vs Final Cut - 14 years ago
We have both FCP on a Mac, and Adode CS4 on a i7 PC. Honestly, from a strictly personal opinion I like FCP better for an editing platform; but like Adobe for After Effects. My biggest pet peeve about CS4 is its "native" XDCAM support- it has never worked. Nor will Premeire, or any CS4 app read a Mac encoded XDCAM file. (Although it has no problem with ProRes 422) Shane Rosby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: FCS / QT / OS compatibility - 14 years ago
Awesome FCP6.0.2 OSX 10.4.11 / 10.5.1 QT7.3.1 This is exactly the config I have for FCP 6.02 on the Dual G5 and it matches the above list! Scott Taylor Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wonderful, Jon! Thank you.by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: sphere filter in 3D - 14 years ago
Did you set view to "Best"? Benjamin Meyer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What's weird about this is that other places that > I did the same thing worked great. No resolution > loss. Any ideas what I am missing?by mark@avolution - Motion
Re: Bringing in a jpeg - 14 years ago
Why not ProRes? It takes some more room, but quality is a magnitude better. Don't leave home without it! Delphinus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It is a DV setting. Is there any way to change > things so I can keep the timeline intact and have > the jpeg images sharper? If I change the timeline, > won't all the media get messed up tooby mark@avolution - Café LA
Custom Setting for Jumping nth seconds in the timeline - 14 years ago
Is it possible to create a custom keycode for jumping say 5 seconds forwards for a quick look at a slideshow from centrepoint of one slide to another. I know about shift-arrow, but I wonder if I can "roll my own" custom time buttonsby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: OT: WE'RE BACK! - 14 years ago
This smiley just made my day! grafixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Need a larger smilie > selection... > 1/joemorelli99/Vomiting-Smilely.gifby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Converting HDV QT files to m2t? - 14 years ago
I did a blueray easy peasy by taking my XDCAM movie timeline and exporting to proRes 422. I brought the proRes 422 into Adobe Premeire on an i7 PC, and then burnt a disk image/blueray. Then using imageburn I burnt the image to a DVD5 standard disk for a great looking 720p standard disk. DM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > point taken, thanks. One notby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Get rid of humming sound on audio - 14 years ago
If it is 60 cycle hum AND the voulme of the hum is consistent you can try the hum filters in filters/audio. If it is a buzz, it will contain more harmonics and possibly a niose gate will work. DrE Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi, > > I have a humming-buzzing noise on my audio track > that is on an interview, so no music, just voicby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: Converting HDV QT files to m2t? - 14 years ago
For PC's as long as you have Windows XP SP2 and higher and have the most recent QT Player...I know one of my machines has Windows 2000 and cannot play QT ProRes Jeff Harrell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > None of this has anything to do with Quicktime > Pro. As I said, the ProRes decoders are included > with Quicktime itself. Built right in. &by mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: ProRes HQ Footage Looks Dark - 14 years ago
FCP, I thought he was talking about but I see it was Compressor..woops. (don't reply to messages before full coffee drank at 9 a.m EDT) <: What I was trying to allude to in my message is that all animation packages on Mac, PC etc worth it allow you to set up the gamma for display and output to TIFF, TGA etc. I have used this feature since inception and I suggest that other animators sby mark@avolution - Café LA
Re: ProRes HQ Footage Looks Dark - 14 years ago
As an animator in 3ds Max, I have my PC set up for gamm, which in my case is 1.56. I know that when I go to FCP, if I don't like the gamma that QT chooses I can go and change to a custom gamma setting (of 1.56). This allows a perfect match. However, it is very important that regardless of the animation package that a) gamma correction is on b) gamma output on save file is set c) YOUby mark@avolution - Café LA
