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FCP to Motion not working. - 14 years agoFCP 6.06, Motion 3 Apologies for posting same message on both FCP and Motion. I'm desperate for a solution. For four days I've been working seamlessly with FCP - sending sequences to Motion to animate. Everything exactly as it should be. Suddenly Motion is telling me "The document xxx could not be opened." And when Motion opens there are no clips there. I've trashed preferenby Ben Ged Low - Café LA FCP to Motion link suddenly ceased working? - 14 years agoFCP 6.06, Motion 3 For four days I've been working seamlessly with FCP - sending sequences to Motion to animate. Everything exactly as it should be. Suddenly Motion is telling me "The document xxx could not be opened." And when Motion opens there are no clips there. I've trashed preferences on Motion, FCP, twice. I've fixed permissions. I've rebooted. Same problem. Motion worksby Ben Ged Low - Motion Unmerging 'merged' tracks? - 15 years agoHave been handed 40 hours of spectacularly recorded (4-8 tracks) steam engine (train) sound FX. Meaning each clip was recorded with up to 8 mics (it varies). Whoever set up the project 'merged' each set of 4-8 tracks to a single 2 track 'merged' clip in FCP. So I have all these 'merged' 2 track clips which, if I 'link' them, split into usable stereo. I want to cut the soundtrack for the filby Ben Ged Low - Soundtrack Pro Re: Can Motion handle files larger than 4K? - 15 years agoThank you very kindly marspencer, I had proposed doing these maps (an IMAX film) in Motion ... not sure I was being foolish. My dear brother, whose film this is, leaped at the possibility. Now I have to figure the reality. He thinks that the maps would work even in 4K (the film is going to be posted as straight IMAX, very little digital ... but they've done a lot of tests on another IMAX (3by Ben Ged Low - Motion Re: Can Motion handle files larger than 4K? - 15 years agoSo it's the video card that makes the difference. How would I find out which video card? Something that goes in the tower? Or are we talking more like a Kona card?by Ben Ged Low - Motion Can Motion handle files larger than 4K? - 15 years agoI heard a rumor that, depending on processor speed and video card, it was possible to work in 8K in Motion. Is that just a rumor? I'm working on an IMAX film and am trying to figure out if there is any way I can employ Motion in the pipeline to do some graphic work. All ears, Benby Ben Ged Low - Motion Re: SnapzPro, H-264, FCP?? - 15 years agoI've read a bunch of 'critiques' and 'comparisons' ... SnapzPro seems to come out on top, slightly. And I may have just stumbled on Ambrosia fans. But I like the idea of instant capture. I will try your iShowU. I agree about HDV. But I'm on the road with only a laptop ... full on HD is a bit of a struggle (drive space). When we move to actually DOING these little dummy animations (insteaby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: SnapzPro, H-264, FCP?? - 15 years agothank you Nick, I'll check it out. I finally set SnapZ to record in HDV 1920 X 1440. Seems to be working. It's a weird app. You shoot whatever it is you are shooting ... THEN it processes whatever you've shot. I can't figure out what format it's capturing to BEFORE you get to save it as whatever format you select. The HDV did come into FCP the appropriate size. I'll check out yourby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: SnapzPro, H-264, FCP?? - 15 years agoHi Derek, No to first question. I'm just flying around the standard Google Earth 3D using a controller. I could film this off the Apple Cinema screen with an HD camera ... but it's a pain to set up, and the IMAX frame format isn't HD. SD has too much artifacting when I'm flying around - Google Earth is already a bit jagged in motion. All we want is to get the 'moves' right in Google Eartby Ben Ged Low - Café LA SnapzPro, H-264, FCP?? - 15 years agoI'm doing movie screen grabs with SnapzPro. Which is making H-264 QT files. Which I import into Final Cut. Which Final Cut seems to be a bit confused about. I can't get the 'frame sizes' to match up. If I do a 720 X 480 H-264 QT it doesn't fit the FCP sequence 720 X 480 frame (it's a bit smaller top and bottom). Same discrepancy with any frame size. I'm doing some 'dummy' flying sequences iby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: 4212 X 3072 dpx file appears as 4000 X 3072 on FCP timeline?? - 15 years agoThank you Jeff, very kind of you. Which leads me to a desperate last ditch effort. I'm wondering if when I bring the dpx file onto the FCP timeline, FCP is 'cropping' the extra 212 pixels (106 on either side) or it is 'squashing' the image to fit the 4,000 pixel limit? It drops real easy on the timeline ... and I can output the 4000 frame (squashed or cropped) as a QT uncompressed at 421by Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: 4212 X 3072 dpx file appears as 4000 X 3072 on FCP timeline?? - 15 years agoThank you Jeff, Mmm. He said something about the latest of the latest of updates. And he's writing 3rd party apps for FCP, so I would have figured him to know. I'll have to ask him. I did heard a rumour that there was going to be a 4K Final Cut in January\February 2009 -- something about collaboration with RED. ??by Ben Ged Low - Café LA 4212 X 3072 dpx file appears as 4000 X 3072 on FCP timeline?? - 15 years agoI'm working with 4212 X 3072 dpx files from an IMAX film. I'm using GlueTools to bring them onto the FCP timeline as shot clips. But when I drag them onto the timeline, my sequence seems to want to set them at 4000 X 3072. I've tried re-setting the sequence before and after the fact ... it immediately pops back to 4000 X 3072. I've just heard from someone who works regularly at 4096x2440 ..by Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP & IMAX 3D - 15 years agoThe boys have developed a proprietary app. (called the PBB for now, don't know why). From FCP we output a .png sequence (at whatever resolution), as two sets of single frame files. This new proprietary app. can play them straight through the two projectors, perfect stereo. Once the film is locked, the .png files are used as references back to the dpx files that go to Technicolor. Previoby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: 'Custom' Sequence display weirdly in full screen mode? - 15 years agoHi Loren, I'm doing some tests on the laptop. To actually edit we'd be using whatever the latest and greatest is ... plus some kind of accelerator card like Kona 3 (or whatever might be better). I just did a test straight from 4K dpx files to the FCP timeline. I could almost play the thing. It would run for a few seconds before stalling ... and that's on a laptop with only 2 Gig Ram. I'by Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP & IMAX 3D - 15 years agoStephen says working with beavers is like working with a union crew ... they work fifteen minutes, then fart around for an hour, then work fifteen minutes, then fart around for an hour. The scene where the two beavers are waltzing together was real, unexpected, but the boys were quick enough to get it on camera. Though they shot a good deal of the film right out in the Kananaskis wilderness (Alby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP & IMAX 3D - 15 years agoThank you Michael, I just went straight from 4K dpx files to 4K ProRes and 4K uncompressed, and they all sit comfortably on my little laptop FCP timeline. They will play for a few seconds before stalling. So something tells me that with my tower (3,500 miles away right now) and a Kona 3 card ... it should be a cinch... Thanks for the note... bby Ben Ged Low - Café LA 'Custom' Sequence display weirdly in full screen mode? - 15 years agoSo I am cutting an IMAX film, and the frame is 1428 x 1050 (virtually 4:3 ratio). In ProRes it plays and works just fine on the timeline, proper proportions in the canvas and viewer windows ... and when I open it to full screen it works, proper proportions, as a 'still' image; but when I hit 'play' it pops into a 16:9 sort of frame ... the image squashed. This doesn't happen with an 'uncompresby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP & IMAX 3D - 15 years agoHi Andrew, A good idea, except for the mojo part (never been able to write code, other than a bit of html). I think the boys did use the multiclip thing for a bit ... but the stereo was carefully worked out on the shoot, and the only way to REALLY know if it works is on the BIG screen. It's easier to output a sequence, and bop it onto the BIG screen. I'm thinking the editor will just haveby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP & IMAX 3D - 15 years ago"It's just messing around with color on an offline." Yes, you are absolutely right. "Messing" being the appropriate verb. I'm trying to find out how they marry the 'edit' on the back end, with the original film negative, and at one point they do their ACTUAL color corrections. Meanwhile ... an interim FCP stage will at least allow for much prettier screenings ... asby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP & IMAX 3D - 15 years agoYo Jeff, I'm with you. Though I myself have found that editing 'on-line' as I go has smoothed out a lot of screenings with clients \ producers who are not filmmakers \ directors who are a bit novice or have no imaginations ... coz they see what they are going to get at every step of the way. And brother Steve is in the same situation: screening for heavily invested sponsors who can't actuaby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP & IMAX 3D - 15 years agoThank you Chuck, Most helpful. My bro has made a bunch of 3D 'Stereoscopic' IMAX films, very successfully - using very high end post production studios at great expense. So I think what we're trying to figure out, is how much we CAN do in a smaller in-house studio, before having to go into the higher-end studios. So far I can see that we CAN do the edit in 2K ProRes quite comfortably - whby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP & IMAX 3D - 15 years agoNo, not animation ... only SOME animation sequences. Most of the film is live-action. And we are talking 'Technicolor' in Montreal, where the films are being assembled. I know this should be separate post ... but, while I have your attention: I want to be able to drop Right and Left eye onto the timeline, one above the other, and LOCK them, so even though I am only ever editing the one eyby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: FCP & IMAX 3D - 15 years agoHi Jeff, Thank you for that. I wasn't clear I think. No, he's not going down to 2K and then back up. I suspect ultimately the VistaVision will be transferred directly to the IMAX - film to film. Or, for the digital animation etc., they will be up above 5k to as much as 8k. His tech was telling me they did experiments at 4K that looked very good on the IMAX screen - given this is 3D it mby Ben Ged Low - Café LA FCP & IMAX 3D - 15 years agoMy dear brother is producing several 3D IMAX films. For one, the original footage is VistaVision 3D. The final output is to be 3D IMAX. I think his 'pipeline' is a bit problematic - involving PC computers, AfterEffects, a lot of complicated maneuvers. I want to propose inserting FCP into the equation. I've done some 2K tests that work beautifully, using only my laptop. This new 'pipeline'by Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Installing pre-Intel and Intel FCP on same laptop?? - 17 years agoThe pre-Intel runs okay on the Intel MacBook Pro. Okay meaning it functions. I seem to remember doing something last summer before I crossgraded and it worked just fine, not even particularly slow in the Rosetta. But the job I'm doing is a bit of a beast ... lots of clips etc. and the image stream is stuttering in the non-Intel version. No matter for my purpose ... I don't want to work withby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Installing pre-Intel and Intel FCP on same laptop?? - 17 years agoI'm working on two jobs simultaneously. I want to be able to move back and forth between the last version of FCP before Intel, and the Intel version. The previous job was all done on pre-Intel FCP, and certain effects plug-ins don't work with the Intel version. It's a 100 minute film and I don't have the time to find all those effects and redo them. Easier to stick in FCP pre-Intel. I onby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Alternative to FXScript DVE's 'softwipe?? - 17 years agoThank you Derek, The normal Edge Wipe is too narrow a line, it LOOKS like a process wipe. The FXScript DVE's 'softwipe' looks like a controlled dissolve, smoother, wider - a melding of two images rather than a 'window opening to a new image'. But it doesn't work with Intel FCP. I remember Media 100 used to have controllable dissolves that were terrific, you could choose direction and wiby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Re: Alternative to FXScript DVE's 'softwipe?? - 17 years agoJude, Good suggestion. Dilemma... I need to be able to control where the dissolve\wipe is coming from, top, bottom, side. The FCP gradient wipe doesn't seem to give this control. Or am I missing something. Any ideas? I notice with a lot of the standard wipes the 'soft' selection is not working with the Intel FCP. Thanks, Benby Ben Ged Low - Café LA Alternative to FXScript DVE's 'softwipe?? - 17 years agoJust completed a long docu. Have moved from original cutting room. Have to master the show on PowerMac Intel. The original was edited on the last version of FCP before Intel. Everything works fine but the FXScript DVE's 'softwipe' of which there are a fair number in the film. The wipes just don't work, weird and unpredictable. Can anyone suggest an alternative source for a functional 'sofby Ben Ged Low - Café LA |
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