Exporting FCP footage to Motion

The replies helped out a lot before, so I'll try it again. If I make speed adjustments or add freeze frames to video footage in FCP, then export it to motion. The footage opens in motion w/ incorrect footage than I sent. The freeze frame wasn't frozen, and was from completely different video than what the freeze frame was. Is it not wise to send effects made in FCP into Motion?
any advice would be great

Michael - if you do a search here (speed change, under the hood, scrub filter, FCP) you'll find this has been discussed quite a bit and some pretty good solutions can be found, including a link to an excellent article by Mark Spencer on the Ken Stone site...
Search is your friend...
Patrick

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"Open in Editor is used for an embedded Motion project (or Soundtrack Pro, or LiveType, or Shake for that matter). You need to select the clips in the timeline and choose Send to Motion, then name the Motion project which will replace the clips. Yes, you will lose your filters. Only Motion tab properties go along for the ride. Why not use Motion to apply your filters?

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This must be pretty basic, but I've tried several things with the same results. I just want to get a 12 second clip from my FCP timeline into a new Motion project, but when I hilight the clip in the timeline and "send to Motion", in Motion I get the entire clip that was originally captured, (which was 20 minutes), not the edited clip. How do I send just the clip from the timeline to Motion?
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I just set in and out points of a clip bringing it into the timeline at just over 5 seconds.
Clicked on the clip, and right click to send to a Motion project. Got the dialog box, and named it, and it opened in Motion at the 5 second length.
Are you up to date with the latest versions of FCP 5.0.4. and Motion 2.0.x?
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Exporting HD footage

As some of you may know from a previous post, I am currently working on my Senior Capstone film project. My classes have all been FCP based, and I was really getting into risky waters by using Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 for my edit - due to potential compatability issues.
My last post discussed issues with some rippling in my footage, which a friend recommended deinterlacing the footage.
Now, I am trying to export my footage and have strict guidelines for my file format, some of which are not a codec available for the PC (Apple ProRes 422). I have exported an MPEG-2 Blu-ray of my project (so far the only setting that produced a quality product for some reason) and have been trying (and failing) to convert the footage.
Here is my workflow (my required export settings will follow):
My footage was recorded on 3 different Canon HV20's. All of my footage is stored on an external harddrive connected via FireWire 400 (with FireWire 800 adapter).
The project file is HDV 1080i/60i (30fps).
I exported the footage directly onto my external harddrive (not a large enough internal HD) as MPEG-2 Blu-ray leaving the default settings (Maximum Render Quality and Frame Blending I believe were both checked).
The final result looks fine.
I downloaded software called MPEG Streamclip, as recommended for my fellow FCP classmates to use when converting their Apple ProRes files into H.264 .mp4 files. I chose the exact same settings as they were required. The result?: The first 10 seconds or so plays normally. Then, once the first visually chaotic scene (actors running all over the place on screen), the video cannot keep up and it appears to be playing in slow motion until it speeds up and slows back down.
I decided to try the H.264 Codec in PP. My Source Settings reads: 1440x1080 (1.3333), 29.97 fps, Upper, 00;14;41;22, 48000 Hz, Stereo
The Output settings chosen: NTSC, 1920x1080, 29.97 fps, De-interlaced AAC, 160 kbps, 48 kHz, Stereo VBR, 1 Pass, Target 30.00, Max 30.00 Mbps
Now, I understand the 1440x1080 doesn't match up with the 1920x1080 and I wondered if I should have approached this differently. I am required to either use 1280x720 or 1920x1080 for my output. 1440x1080 is NOT an option, even though this was the only setting I could use for my source footage which was captured from HDV tapes. Supposedly the Canon HV20 is 1920x1080 data compressed into 1440x1080, but I know nothing more than this as I wasn't familiar with the cameras before this project.
But for the official screening of our films, I'm required to provide the H.264 .mp4 file which will be placed onto a FCP timeline alongside my classmates' projects.
Any advice or recommendations to test out, please let me know. Here are the requirements for the output file which I've been adhering to but without successful results:
Drag the QuickTime file (.mov) youʼve just created into the center square (it has 5
blue dots) on MPEG Steamclip.
• Go to File > Export to MPEG-4
• Under Compression, H.264 should be automatically selected. Be sure that it is.
• Make sure the Quality bar is at 100%.
• Check Limit Data Rate and type in 30; then make sure you have mbps selected
next to it in the drop down menu, NOT kbps.
• Sound should set automatically.
• Frame Size should remain (unscaled), as you selected this during the creation of
your master file.
• Make sure that Interlaced Scaling is unchecked if your film is ProRes 422 (most of
your films will be). If your file is DV NTSC, leave Interlaced Scaling checked, and
check De-interlace Video as well.
• Click Make MP4 to export.
• Name the file and select where to save it on
your hard drive.
• Click Save.
I have played around with the Interlaced Scaling, trying both checked and unchecked as my original file is not ProRes 422. But the same video lag problem happens each time.

MissClareskister wrote:
So perhaps then my Computer cannot handle the HD footage? What would be the recommended requirements to edit HD so that when I invest in another machine can handle this so I don't have to rely on someone else's computer to export my projects in the future?
You can edit and produce HD footage just fine on your machine -- I thought you were only having trouble playing back the final result. There will be jerky playback when you're previewing the timeline, and some exports might take longer, but there is nothing preventing you from editing the full result on the hardware you have now. You just have to have realistic expectations on how smoothly the editing and previewing will go. Your hardware is perfectly capable of producing a broadcast-quality H.264 output file. You just can't play it smoothly on that machine, is all.
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**** poor. **** poor.

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This clip is probably the best example because my family is bouncing in a tube while being pulled by a boat.
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http://gallery.me.com/brutewolf#100011/3%20in%20a%20tube%20FCE&bgcolor=black
After exporting:
http://gallery.me.com/brutewolf#100011/3%20in%20a%20tub%20after%20export&bgcolor =black
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It's difficult for me to tell if this is precisely the same frame (because of rapid motion, a transition, and no frame indicator in QuickTime) but it appears that the converted file is zoomed in with a slightly different aspect ratio. Is that a separate issue? The aspect ratio isn't terribly noticeable, but I think the shake artifact is.
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I recently have been using my Magnavox DVD recorder for recording VHS tapes that I made long ago for shows and various other things, and no matter what, my footage doesn't come out as it needs to be.
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