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| | | | | | Stuck -- need to create a smoke effectby Bill Russell 1 year agoWow, who knew smoke was so hard! This the third day I've made no progress on this animation for a client. Stuck on making smoke. Been watching and reading tutorials. Particle Playgound is impossible t | Re: Stuck -- need to create a smoke effect
by Dave LaRonde 5 months ago
Okay, now I get it. I was thinking all action would be in 3D space, but the cityscape is essentially a background. Actually, the smoke works well with the look of everything else, I think. Best of luc
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| | | |  | expression to link focus distance...?by doug nash 5 years agoHey all: I've spent some timing searching through a bunch of "depth of field" related posts, but I haven't had much luck with what I'm specifically looking to accomplish. I'm looking to link the 3D ca | Re: expression to link focus distance...?
by Kevin Dooley 2 years ago
I lied... Well, I didn't realize when I posted... This doesn't really work. I ended up using the code below from Dan Ebberts's website. http: motionscript.com design-guide auto-focus.html target = thi
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| | | | | Quicktime 5.1 Surround questionby Dan Williams 2 years agoHi I've been asked to deliver a project as a Quicktime movie with 8 channels of audio - 5.1 with channels 7 & 8 as a stereo pair - embedded and labelled in the file. I'm having no problems creating a | | | | |
| | | | | Trouble creating desired smoke effectby Bill Russell 1 year agoHi -- I've stepped into to thicket that's taking way too much of my time, and still have a whole animation to do! I need some smoke. This is my third day puzzling over tutorials, and still can't get.. | | | | |
| | | | | 4:3 to 16:9 FCpro pluginby Ian Corbin 4 years agoDoes anyone know of a plugin that can take a 4:3 frame and stretch the sides to fit a 16:9 frame That way the middle of the frame where the eye is mainly focused stays relatively untouched. There are | | | | |
| | | | | Service: Worldpoop.comby Bill Russell 1 year agoMarina Del Rey California, United States Film Post Production Worldpoop.com Film Editing Editing Post Production Considerable experience creative editing, animating, | | | | |
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| | | |  | Problem With Reconnecting Mediaby Scott Bush 5 years agoHi guys, Very annoying problem here. I did a bunch of work at home last night, and brought it back to the office this morning. Everything conencts, except my music track. Problem is, it is a 30-second | Re: Problem With Reconnecting Media
by Bill Russell 2 years ago
Like the energizer bunny, it's good to know a good tip keeps going and going! I'm glad. I think the reason everybody is suddenly jumping ship is because in the spring Apple invented iMovie Pro and cal
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| | | | | Most reliable Blu Ray hardware to buy?by Bill Russell 4 years agoWe need to burn screeners that are 100% reliable. We are thinking of buying an external Blu Ray burner (since Mac does not play Blu Ray yet, we'll wait for state-of-the-art internal at that time), and | | | | |
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| | | | | Reuse AE clipsby Ashley Smith 5 years agoHi if i create a box that moves from left to right and changes colors over 24 frames, is there a way to turn this into a reusable clip. This way every time i wanted to use the box, i can just re-use t | Re: Reuse AE clips
by Bill Russell 5 years ago
You could do it with scripting, but poor man's route would be to simply nest (pre-compose) the "clip" you created. You put the clip in a nest, then treat the nest as a single "clip" that you can use a
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| | | | | Newbie - how to clear in and out points??by Bill Russell 5 years agoI feel like a real dummy posting this. I've been scouring the manual for an hour and a half, and googline everything -- I cannot find how to do this simple thing: Clear the in and out point. (And is t | | | | |
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| | | |  | Can't export audioby Phil Beastall 5 years agoI have some audio in Final Cut Pro that I'm sending to Soundtrack Pro as a multitrack project. It plays fine in STP, and so I go to export it as a wave file and then when its done, I play it and all I | Re: Can't export audio
by Bill Russell 5 years ago
In the timeline of the STP multi-track project there is a red "finish" marker that is supposed to mark the end of the project area. Is that marker there at the end or is it at the beginning If it is a
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| | | |  | Cannot Send to Soundtrack Proby Brian Van Volkinburg 5 years agoI am trying to transfer my audio from Final Cut 6 to Soundtrack Pro 2 for editing and sweetening. When I try to select "Send to" the only options that are highlighted are "Motion PRoject" and "Soundtr | Re: Cannot Send to Soundtrack Pro
by Bill Russell 5 years ago
Let me know if this is it. If you select just a portion of audio to send to Soundtrack, sometimes it just won't work unless you have the corresponding video above the audio also selected. A bit buggy
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| | | | | "Error sending to Soundtrack Pro"by Bill Russell 5 years agoAnybody know what this is about and is there a way to prevent it I'm selecting several tracks and trying to send them to STP v1.1 (FCP 5.1.2). (I remember Dan had this problem in his "Essential Traini | | | | |
| | | | | Macro for setting font style and colorby Bill Russell 5 years agoHi, I searched for Macros and discovered an impenetrable script system, much more mysterious to me than automated tasks in Photoshop. Anyway, what I need to find a quick way to alternate font style an | | | | |
| | | | | How to save guides with a presetby Bill Russell 5 years agoI've opened an "HDTV 1920x1080 with guides" preset, doubled its size (to 3840x2160). I don't save it. I choose "New", choose "Untitled" (untitled document), choose save preset. But if I close and open | Re: How to save guides with a preset
by Tj Tyrrell 5 years ago
Well, I hope you've personally found an answer. I too have just been looking for the solution. I couldn't find anything on the internet so I decided to browse the Adobe preset files and I found a solu
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| | | | | Question About Dimensions Settingsby Spencer Wu 5 years agoHi there, I have a quick question that has been bugging me for some time. I have a 640x480 piece of video footage, which I import into FCP, into the Timeline. I change the settings of the Timeline fro | | | | |
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| | | | | frustrating!! rolling credits, help!by Vin2000 6 years agohey guys, i was able to do my entire ending credits and i'm very happy with it. my only problem is the part where i have rolling credits. for some reason, and i know this has happened to a few others, | Re: frustrating!! rolling credits, help!
by Bill Russell 6 years ago
You mean it takes 18 seconds to go from bottom to top of frame If I'm understanding you correctly, that is a very slow crawl indeed. Anyway, seems the pixel for pixel advice is a wonderful thing! Lear
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| | | | | How to use alpha channel (instead of plain old transparency) ??by Bill Russell 7 years agoI exported a Photoshop image from After Effects. However, instead of giving me a transparency, it gave me a fourth channel, an alpha channel. How do I use this alpha channel to create a transparency ( | I've got the answer
by Bill Russell 7 years ago
Thanks for your reply! And thanks for the layered PSD info, that's good to know. So well, actually, what you said is normally what I would do... go back and export a PNG. But I don't have access anymo
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| | | | | Snaps back when I try to distort... Help!by Bill Russell 8 years agoHi there. Newbie. Trying to distort an object. Darn it, I'm ctrl-clicking corners of my object to distort it. It distorts.... until I let go of the mouse button when it snaps back. What am I doing wro | | | | |
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