Member Since: February 23rd 2002 Friends:  Abraham Chaffin  Chris Harlan  Steve Brame  Tim Wilson | | | | |  | Motion "Strobe" effect in FCP templateby Dirk de Jong 1 month agoI'm using the Motion "Strobe" effect in a template in which I want some movement (source video or other animation) to not update every frame. For example let's say I only want the movement to update 1 | | | | |
| | | |  | Status of FCPX in 2019by Oliver Peters 1 month agoJust curious how everyone thinks the world of FCPX is doing this year. We are now in its 8th year since release. Looking at the various sites that have posted customer use stories in the past, things | Re: Status of FCPX in 2019
by Bret Williams 4 weeks ago
My wife is a producer (you're in ATL you may know Teri Lamprey) and when our daughter's kindergarten teacher asked what Mom and Dad do for a living, she told her "they make videos in the basement." Th
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| | | | | 4K and Mac HDMIby Oliver Peters 1 month agoMore a Mac question than FCPX, but this forum seems about as good as any. Does anyone know whether the HDMI from a 2013 Mac Pro or a new iMac Pro (via a TB3-to-HDMI adapter) will support 4K UHD to a 4 | Re: 4K and Mac HDMI
by Bret Williams 1 month ago
I ve used it on 2012 iMac via TB2 to HDMI cable. I don t know about the resolution, but in comparing the look from the HDMI vs BMD or AJA the HDMI out was never for anything but a quick way to view on
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| | | |  | FCPX Plugins Ready for Mojaveby David Cooke 1 month agoI'm in the middle of contacting Ripple Training and LenoFX, makers of FCPX Plugins. Is anyone using these plugins successfully with OS Mojave I have many plugins from both developers and have remained | Re: FCPX Plugins Ready for Mojave
by Bret Williams 1 month ago
Not a Motion bas d template then I d assume. _______________________________________________________________________ http: BretFX.com FCPX Plugins & Templates for Editors & Motion Graphics Artists Han
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| | | |  | Keyframes stop workingby Don Smith 1 month agoTry this: If you have Ripple Callouts, put in the Line Solid. Now, keyframe one end of that line. Play a few seconds, and try to reposition the position of that same end of the line. You're setting a | Re: Keyframes stop working
by Bret Williams 1 month ago
There has been a bug for a long time where certain outline strokes on motion shapes didn t update until you clicked in the timeline. But they were rare and were fixed in most recent version. But perha
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| | | | | Grid - DropZone from rectangular to squareby Bonnie Choi 3 months agoHello, I hope all has great Thanksgiving day! I have a project that I had to make a grid - that starts from 1 and becomes 4, 9 and16. Originally, it was created with 1920x1080 and I modified the templ | | | | |
| | | | | Creating customisable bulletsby mark boundy 2 months agoHi CC community, The issue I have is that I am I am creating a fair number of presentations in FCPX with bullets on them. I would like to be able to make a motion template which when you drag and drop | Re: Creating customisable bullets
by Bret Williams 1 month ago
I think he s talking about a bullet list and you re talking about... bullets Deysons works pretty well. But making something in Motion that has multiple timing points just isn t something that doable.
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| | | | | Free Smooth Strobe Pluginsby Bret Williams 2 years agoHey Cow, I've uploaded a set of FREE "Smooth Strobe" plugins to http: bretfx.com In my frustration get the strobe effect (in Motion) to work in a commercial plugin I'm working on I decided to publish | Re: Free Smooth Strobe Plugins
by Bret Williams 1 month ago
Glad you got it. i flipped the switch to some Cloudflare hosting stuff that might have taken a few minutes to take effect. Maybe just bad timing. ______________________________________________________
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| | | |  | How to Use Web Templatesby Cameron Dozier 5 months agoHello, I had built a custom site with Dreamweaver a few years ago, and at some point something became outdated and my icon animations broke, some icons went away completely. At this point I have forgo | Re: How to Use Web Templates
by Bret Williams 1 month ago
I d say the hottest themes right now are Astra and OceanWP. They re good for just about any kind of site. But the cool stuff is going to happen with the page builders. Elementor is where it s at right
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| | | | | New siteby Bret Williams 2 months agoFinally wrapped up an overhaul of the BretFX 2.0 website with all kinds of new tech, new theme, new page builder, etc. The new site is built with WordPress, Woocommerce,, OceanWP theme and a lot Eleme | | | | |
| | | | | Mac Mini with iPad Pro Displayby Oliver Peters 3 months agoCrossing the streams https: www.macrumors.com 2018 11 20 mac-mini-ipad-pro-luna-display - Oliver Oliver Peters - oliverpeters.com | Re: Mac Mini with iPad Pro Display
by Bret Williams 2 months ago
I take it back with the gestures. I forgot they do have special gestures so you can scroll and zoom like a trackpad. But still need the computer right there for audio or to get the app you want on the
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| | | |  | Send to X questionby Mark Smith 3 months agoDoes Send To X need to be installed running on the computer receiving a converted ( by send to x) premier file My spouse sent me a Premiere xml, I converted it using send to x, shot the FCPX xml back | Re: Send to X question
by Bret Williams 3 months ago
Depends on if they ve incremented the XML version in 10.4.4 and send to x. Can you export it as the previous version of FCPXML with send to X __________________________________________________________
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| | | |  | Suggestions on FCPX performanceby Shawn Malone 3 months agoHello, this is my first post here, although I have been visiting the forum since I started using FCPX a few months ago. So Hello out there! Anyway, my question has been asked in many forms, many diffe | Re: Suggestions on FCPX performance
by Bret Williams 3 months ago
It's a mess. And of cuourse now that your project links to copy 2,3 or 20, you have to keep that in your browser or back it up with the project, and so on. ____________________________________________
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| | | |  | Issue with adding content to the websiteby emma woods 4 months agoI added some content to this page: https: www.hydrogenics.com hydrogen-products-solutions fuel-cell-power-systems hydrail developments-in-hydrail . I was checking it in mobile and PC. Apple iPhone X (+1 | | | | |
| | | |  | Website with user interactivityby Ray Peterson 4 months agoI'm making my way to web design. I'm already familiar with wordpres (wordpress.com and self hosting) but I thought I'd try and learn dreamweaver or any other software to produce a website that has a l | Re: Website with user interactivity
by Bret Williams 3 months ago
I m guessing there s a plugin for WordPress that would do this. Or an Elementor add-on. Are you familiar with Elementor yet _______________________________________________________________________ http
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| | | |  | Demystification: A Parableby Simon Ubsdell 1 year agoImagine, if you will, an apartment building. It has roughly 25 and a half floors (probably designed originally by Charlie Kaufman, who knows ), but only around 20 of these floors are actually used by +3  | Re: Demystification: A Parable
by David Mathis 1 year ago
I think I found a video describing what Simon is referring to. I have been on elevators that have behaved this though not to this level. Pun intended! https: www.youtube.com watch v=sDoTu43wCvI
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| | | |  | More "demystification"...by Bill Davis 1 year agoI'm trying to stay out of this because in both software engineering and color theory - I'm pretty much an idiot. I'm just an end user, and HAPPY to be one. But this has blown up so much - that I'm fas+1 | Re: More "demystification"...
by Mark Smith 1 year ago
The way color wheels work in rec 709 is giving me acid flashbacks to doing a tech set up on a analog video camera , say a PC70. Back in those days it was the case that engineering set up controls were
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| | | | | Footage becoming interlaced in FCP 7by Gabriel Rougeau 2 years agoHello, this may be the wrong sub-forum, but it's been awhile since I posted here. I have a Sony NEX VG10 camcorder, and I've been told that this camera only films in progressive, so I figured that it | Re: Footage becoming interlaced in FCP 7
by Bret Williams 2 years ago
But what frame rate did you shoot at 24M is a data rate setting, which can be used with 60i, 50i, or 24p. _______________________________________________________________________ http: BretFX.com Plugi
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| | | | | I've lost my headby Bret Williams 3 years agoA year or more ago I clicked on my head and said "remove my head from forum" or something like that. It was reminding me of just how addicted I was. Well, the first step is admitting you have a proble | Re: I've lost my head
by Bret Williams 3 years ago
Sounds good. Guess I'll have to up my postings to get my head back up though. 18th poster of all time just ain't good enough. :P
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| | | | | Compound clip audio weirdnessby Bret Williams 3 years agoSomeone smack me and tell me what I'm missing here. I have a compound clip nested within my sequence, and the 8 audio tracks are being merged. Usually, expanding audio components shows all the tracks | Re: Compound clip audio weirdness
by Bill Davis 3 years ago
Bret, Personally, I'd go back the the original clips - Open in Timeline - and completely delete all those empty tracks. We've seen that when X sees a bunch of empty tracks, (even if you're not activel
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| | | | | MP4 vs AVCHDby Bryce Douglass 3 years agoI have a Canon XA25 which shoots in AVCHD or MP4. I have been shooting in AVCHD then transcoding to Pro Res as I have had playback issues etc with multi cam etc. if I switched to MP4 would I have to t | Re: MP4 vs AVCHD
by Bret Williams 3 years ago
It's not as intensive with your iMac as with say a Mac Pro. You have h264 acceleration on that iMac processor where the xeons do not. Pro res is still a little smoother to edit with but not noticeably
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| | | |  | iphone4 video in FCP7 for youtube exportby raju bhai 3 years agoHi, I have an iPhone4 video that i just wanted to cut a section out of in FCP7 and then export it for youtube. It is a 36 min video. When i import the iPhone clip into FCP7 and drop it into the fresh +1 | | | | |
| | | |  | Why MXF4MAC cannot open my .MXF file??by kim manis 3 years agoHello, Has anyone use MXF4mac for playing back MXF file I have been using it for a while until today it doesn't work anymore I don't know if there is something wrong with the codec in my .MXF file or | | | | |
| | | | | mixing frame ratesby Bret Williams 3 years agoIs there an issue with mixing frame rates in resolve I've got a multicam edit that is 29.97 except one camera that is 23.98. I ported the project over from FCP X so I could do better color correction, | Re: mixing frame rates
by Bret Williams 3 years ago
This also brings up a good question. Why is there a pull-down menu setting for timeline frame rate, and then right underneath it a "playback" frame rate FILL-IN box Isn't that just asking for trouble
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| | | | | Does anybody know about this new plugin?by Daniel Brown 3 years agoI wish a had bookmarked this article, so I apologize in advance for not having more information. I read an article and watched a video on this new plugin. (I cannot remember if it was just for Mac or | | | | |
| | | | | Fusion and OFX Supportby David Mathis 3 years agoWhile waiting for Studio for Mac OS X, I would like to see expanded OFX support, perhaps something from Red Giant and others. Otherwise, very pleased with Fusion overall, great software! Kudos to the | Re: Fusion and OFX Support
by Bret Williams 3 years ago
Where are you finding the time David In trying to cut the Adobe cord I've had to learn Motion, and still keep up with AE. And before that of course ditch legacy and learn X and some Premiere. Now I'm
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| | | | | Panning Audio in resolve 12by Bret Williams 3 years agoComing from a FCP 7 background, where there weren't any different types of audio tracks, this whole premiere-like audio setup is a bit foreign. In 7, a channel was a channel and a track was always a s | Re: Panning Audio in resolve 12
by Bret Williams 3 years ago
Obviously you can't animate a pan in the media window. My problem is that only s stereo clip will pan in a stereo track. I've read the manual on it and honestly it doesn't seem to correlate. It's defi
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| | | |  | How long to export 5 min of HD footage?by Benjamin Cohen 3 years agoI am using CC 2015, a EVGA GeForce GTX 970 Super Clocked ACX 2.0 Graphics Card, a i7 Core, 16GB of BallStix Memory, Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD7 TH LGA 1150 Z97 Dual Thunderbolt 2 ATX Motherboard i'm using a | | | | |
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