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| | | | | | Paint No More?by greg gilpatrick 1 year agoIs it just me or is Desktop Paint totally missing from the screenshots of the new Smoke Desktop Paint is part of my everyday toolset. I assume that Batch Paint will be part of BFX...er...CFX but that | Re: Paint No More?
by greg gilpatrick 1 year ago
Unfortunately, the only paint I saw during the demo is "Batch Paint", which is the vector paint tool inside CFX in the new Smoke. Every Flame and Smoke until this version had another Paint tool on the
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| | | |  | Lost my work, arrrrrrrggggghhhh.by Mark Morache 2 years ago3-4 hours into an edit, my firewire cable wiggled out and my project went offline. Usually this is no problem. I re-mount the drive, restart FCX and everything is good. This time, the app didn't open. | | | | |
| | | | | Roles: got 'em to work.by Mark Morache 2 years agoAlright, I think I get it. Select clips -- assign role. I can use the minimize button to shrink the tracks that I've already assigned, and then assign (or re-assign) the remaining tracks. Makes sense. | Re: Roles: got 'em to work.
by greg gilpatrick 2 years ago
Why would an off-line picture editor need to have OMF export anyway Seems to me that it would be easiest for everyone if they hand off the whole project to the audio pro and audio pro uses their copy
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| | | |  | smoke on mac , which mac ?by andi no 2 years agohi, i'm curious if any of smoke on mac user can share experiences about the mac system. I'm putting mac pro vs new 27inch imac i7 quadcore for comparison. Yes definitely mac pro got more cores and spe | Re: smoke on mac , which mac ?
by greg gilpatrick 2 years ago
I have not used Smoke on an iMac. Based on my experience, I would recommend going with the Mac Pro and a SAS RAID. It is much more expensive but it is tested and approved. Especially if you are doing
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| | | |  | Problem with Motion Stabilizationby Nelson Torres 2 years agoI have a green screen clip of a Med shot of a girl that was shot on sticks but had a few 'jiggles' during the shot. So I invoked the motion stabilization and it turned the clip upside down and shoved | Re: Problem with Motion Stabilization
by greg gilpatrick 2 years ago
Its also possible that Motion can stabilize it with a 2D track like the other compositing programs I mentioned. I just haven't used Motion so I don't know if you can manually track something and use t
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| | | | | Absolute Load of Rubbishby Philip Davies 2 years agoYes this is a vent and probably not very constructive but still... I'm getting at least a dozen crashes a day, some of which I can't even force quit. There are all minds of bugs. And the big one for m | Re: Absolute Load of Rubbish
by greg gilpatrick 2 years ago
I have to say that FCPX feels pretty stable to me (granted my main apps are Smoke on Mac and Nuke, which are both very crash prone so FCPX feels rock solid in comparison). If you're really getting an
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| | | |  | Lavalier Microphone, Canon60D and FCPXby Paty Bananita 2 years agoHi, I have a Canon60D and have been working with this cam a lot, specially making videos (interviews and stuff). For audio I bought a chip microphone (an audiotechnica) and it works -if not perfectly- | | | | |
| | | | | image sequence questionsby greg gilpatrick 2 years agoHi, I think I'm about to take the plunge into FCP X. I like the idea of a DSLR optimized editing program. First, I have a couple questions that I can't find the answers for on the web. I do a lot of V | Re: image sequence questions
by greg gilpatrick 2 years ago
Thanks Liam for the reply (you have a great website, by the way) I went ahead and bought FCPX and I'm pretty impressed overall. If anyone else is wondering if you can import image sequences into FCPX,
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| | | |  | Radeon 8750 eats Quadro 4000????by Christoph Glaser 2 years agoHi, I just tested the Quadro 4000 on SMAC. 12 core 2,9 gHZ 24 GB Ram I had a Sequenz with some camera movement, motion blur...etc.. end some rays. I took to render in HD something about 2 min 50 sec f | Re: Radeon 8750 eats Quadro 4000????
by greg gilpatrick 2 years ago
I totally believe that a Radeon could beat a Quadro but, if I understand your methodology correctly, there might have been something cached from the first render. For a purely scientific analysis, I w
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| | | | | TIFF formats supportedby Jonathon Lee 2 years agoDoes anyone here know if there is a way to set different parameters for TIFF file outs It looks like LZW is the default format for TIFF fileout's in Composite. I have an app that prefers "no compressi | Re: TIFF formats supported
by greg gilpatrick 2 years ago
Well, if it is a film printer that doesn't like the compression, what about a Cineon file If it is Smoke or some other finishing system that doesn't like it, I do know that they sometimes don't like T
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| | | | | Animate CC matchby greg gilpatrick 2 years agoHi, Does anybody know if the Match function in the Color Corrector or Color Warper is animatable The back in my comp has a lot of lighting changes and I thought that I could resample the match on the | Re: Animate CC match
by greg gilpatrick 2 years ago
Yeah, I looked in there - didn't see anything. It works surprisingly well at matching so I'm not really complaining but it would be nice if there was a way to convert the match into CC Basics settings
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| | | | | Composition loses all work?!!by greg gilpatrick 2 years agoHi, I've been using and liking Toxik for a few days on a commercial and I just advocated to the studio owner that I use it for a really big job to supplement Smac. And now I just opened a Composition | | | | |
| | | | | Retimer output darkby greg gilpatrick 2 years agoHi, I'm trying to retime some footage and my output is coming out markedly darker than the original. I think this might be related to where In the manual it says: "To avoid indexing black frames, set | Re: Retimer output dark
by greg gilpatrick 2 years ago
If anybody cares, I found what I was looking for in the Import Image node - I know that's kinda obvious, the thing is that the workstation I was working on runs Toxik really poorly - like crashing eve
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| | | | | New Directory - Permissionby greg gilpatrick 3 years agoSorry to be spamming the board with so many questions - going from Flame on Linux to Smoke on Mac isn't as smooth as I thought. But this question is pretty basic. I can't create a directory on the dis | Re: New Directory - Permission
by Brian Buongiorno 2 years ago
I have this issue as well. My work-a-round is too switch to the finder and create the directory in MacOS. When you switch back to Flame, do a refresh of that directory and it should be be present and
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| | | | | Clip History and Paintby greg gilpatrick 3 years agoHi, I'm pretty sure the answer to this will be no but I want to ask here just in case. Is there a way to record Clip History when I'm painting something in Canvas mode in Paint For instance, if I want | Re: Clip History and Paint
by greg gilpatrick 3 years ago
Thanks Grant. That's what I figured. I'm just looking for something to replace Batch Paint in MacSmoke. Though, I was never a particular fan of Batch Paint anyway.
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| | | | | Helveticaby greg gilpatrick 3 years agoHi, I want to use Helvetica in Smoke but the Mac's version is a .dfont, which only comes in italic once I load it into Smoke. Any pointers you guys have on getting Helvetica to work Also, I have a tot | Re: Helvetica
by Brian Mulligan 3 years ago
If I load a matte into an axis soft effect, is there a way to set it to Divide or is that only available in Action There is no divide in Axis. If you need to you can use a Logic Op divide under the FX
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| | | | | DVD for Broadcast?by greg gilpatrick 3 years agoHi, I just finished a music video that we mastered to 1080P D5, PAL HD D5, NTSC Digibeta, and NTSC Beta SP. I figured this would have covered the bases but I got two strange requests: The American rec | Re: DVD for Broadcast?
by Carly Smith 3 years ago
I've had requests for spots in QuickTime H.264, Mpeg-2, MPEG-4, and plain vanilla .mov with the regular codec. It really does depend on the individual station, and some aren't able to accept digital f
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| | | |  | Composite new vector paint toolby Kenneth La Rue 3 years agoHi Everyone, I just posted 2 videos demonstrating the new vector paint tool in Composite that will be in the next release of Maya and 3ds max on my blog at The Area. http: area.autodesk.com blogs kenl | Re: Composite new vector paint tool
by greg gilpatrick 3 years ago
That's too bad. Freelancing different places, almost nowhere has a license of Combustion just in case - not like AE or Nuke, at least. But if I could come in and say I use Composite - I know you don't
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| | | | | toxik / combustionby samuel gressin 4 years agoHi all, Reding this : http: usa.autodesk.com adsk servlet index id=5561949&siteID=123112 toxik is no longer a standalone software and become a part of maya 2010. I wonder if it should be consider as a | Re: toxik / combustion
by greg gilpatrick 4 years ago
Amid all this news of Toxik and Shake both dropping by the wayside, one thing that I think people should consider is Motion. I'm not sure about the current dev team but originally, Motion was made by
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| | | |  | Upgrading Combustion on a newer Intel Macby frank Raposo 4 years agoI have Combustion 4 installed on a PPC Mac and want to upgrade to Combustion 2008 on a newer Intel Mac. Do I have to re-install C4 in the newer Mac to then upgrade And will my C4 install on a newer In | | | | |
| | | |  | Autodesk's plans for Combustionby Alan Okey 4 years agoEverything you need to know about Autodesk's plans for Combustion is contained in this press release: http: news.creativecow.net story 861645 That's right, not a single mention of Combustion. There yo | Re: Autodesk's plans for Combustion
by greg gilpatrick 4 years ago
Fusion sounded good on paper but the paint and roto tools were very disappointing - paint could do little more than clone and draw some lines and roto (as far as I could tell) didn't have separate key
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| | | |  | shadows on a transparent layer?by ryan kelly 4 years agoHi, I seek to have one layer cast shadows onto a transparent layer so that only the shadows show up.... I'm inserting a subject into a cg environment and i need the subject to cast shadows on the floo | Re: shadows on a transparent layer?
by greg gilpatrick 4 years ago
I doubt this will work but it's worth a try: set the layer to opaque and render one pass with the shadow and one pass without. do a difference key between the two passes and then use that key (or sele
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| | | | | Can't render DV 16:9by Pierre Menard 4 years agoHi, This problem occurs on both MAC PPC and INTEL I have a DV 16:9 comp all set up, but I find it impossible to render at that aspect ratio. For render I have the QT compression setting DV DVCPRO - NT | Re: Can't render DV 16:9
by greg gilpatrick 4 years ago
I don't have a Combustion system handy but I think the issue is that 16:9 DV uses anamorphic pixel aspect ratio, which you will have to set in the Composite controls, not in the render settings.
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| | | | | Pan Questionsby greg gilpatrick 6 years agoHi, I just used the "Send To Soundtrack Pro Multi-Track Project" option in FCP and I have a question I hope you good people can help me with: We recorded the sound with 2 microphones, each one recordi | Re: Pan Questions
by greg gilpatrick 6 years ago
Hi, Well, no, there is only one clip that contains two separate channels that were recorded separately from each other. I suppose I should've re-captured the media in FCP so that each channel would be
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| | | |  | 24p to SDby Adrian Zorpman 7 years agoHello I've got a modification called andromeda on my panasonic dvx-100 that basically allows the dvx to spit out true 24p hd files. I plan to import that file into shake as an Image File Sequence. My | Re: 24p to SD
by greg gilpatrick 7 years ago
looks to me like that Sculptor HD program that is bundled with the Andromeda installation should take care of the conversion you need to get your footage manageable in FCP.
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| | | |  | Luma/Chroma change FCP to Shake to FCPby Gunleik Groven 7 years agoI've played a little around with sending DVCPRO HD files from FCP to Shake and back, and the resulting files seems a bit washed out. Is this basically a compression issue or is this the dreaded FCP lu | | | | |
| | | | | licensing questionby greg gilpatrick 7 years agoHi, Does anybody know if, with Shake 4.1, you are able to use the same license to install and run on 2 computers - but not at the same time. For instance, can I install it on my desktop and my laptop | | | | |
| | | | | new 30p issue - blurinessby greg gilpatrick 7 years agoOkay, I shot my test with the camera actually set to 30p. The interlacing issue disappeared when I imported the footage into Combustion. But now I have a less troubling but just as puzzling problem. T | | | | |
| | | | | 30p - interlacing and pull-downby greg gilpatrick 7 years agoHi, I'm using a DVX100B that is less than two weeks old for a test to see if I can pull off a vfx shot that requires a lot of tracking. After some trial and error I've determined that 30p is the only | | | | |
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