Master Templates content

Im getting to grips with the new Master Templates in FCP6 and have a problem where the templates appear with what looks like unrendered white/red checkered layers, even once rendered.
I have my Motion content on an external drive, but I dont think that is an issue because the templates work fine in the Motion application.
Any ideas on how to get rid of the checkered layers???
Thanks
Nev

If someone is struggling with the Templates like me, you can workaround it using Reusable Content.
Edit Wiki Page -> Insert -> Reusable Content -> More Choices -> Open List -> New Item / Edit Items
You can create Templates here for detailed Wiki parts .
Be carefull when creating new Content, there is a option for read only / editable Content.

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I am having issues placing digital pictures in master templates in FCP 6

Hello everyone, this is my first post but I have been using Mac's for some time now with basically no issues.
I have two major issues:
First off, I am trying to place digital pictures which are enormous in the master template drop boxes, when I do this it cuts off the top and bottom of the image but the image still looks clear. The pictures I am importing are 1200 x 1800 jpg files, and were shot with a Canon EOS 30D. What I did was take all the images I needed and used Motion Pictures from Toast Titanium 8 and made a slideshow which I then exported as a QuickTime movie. I didn't know how to encode it so I used the DV/DVCPRO - NTSC codec and the dimensions were set to 3240 x 2430 since I thought that should give me the best quality image right?
Anyway, after doing this I have imported this QuickTime movie into Final Cut Pro and then I cut it up and placed little clips into each drop box. This makes it so I can see the whole picture now, but it still is not as high quality as the original pictures.
So, I have tried many times to export this master template with the pictures in the drop boxes and the finished QuickTime file looks terrible. I have not changed anything in the settings and when I export the quicktime movie I keep all the settings the same.
What do I need to do to get this to look better? Any ideas?
The other thing is that I have noticed a big reduction in quality from when I have the unrendered master template with the digital images in the drop boxes to when it autorenders after I have been away from the computer since I am stressing from this.
I am trying to take these pictures of high school basketball players and use the master template to have all the players pics and names come flying on the screen before the game comes on.
Any ideas? Why is the quality so bad? Am I doing something wrong? I have searched throughout the forums and found little information for digital images being imported into master templates, and I do not know if I am using a lossy format or something?
Any help is extremely appreciated!

First off, I am trying to place digital pictures which are enormous in the master template drop boxes, when I do this it cuts off the top and bottom of the image but the image still looks clear. The pictures I am importing are 1200 x 1800 jpg files, and were shot with a Canon EOS 30D. What I did was take all the images I needed and used Motion Pictures from Toast Titanium 8 and made a slideshow which I then exported as a QuickTime movie. I didn't know how to encode it so I used the DV/DVCPRO - NTSC codec and the dimensions were set to 3240 x 2430 since I thought that should give me the best quality image right?
Digital pictures are no different than any other still images, or movies, for that matter, as fas as Motion or FCP are concerned, they're just pixels.
Your image are way too big for video. Even if you're doing high def, you're scaling them down to fit many on the screen. Thye don't need to be an larger than, say, 1k on the long side.
You blew them up by a factor of 300% to get them out at 3240 x 2430 so now you've made all the pixels bigger than they used to be, you haven't added any pixels. Now you're biring that huge movie into FCVP and scaling it down by a factor of about 90%, wasting huge processing time and muscle and tons of disk space, totally wasted, and every scaling operation has introduced tons of artifacts.
Throw it all ways. Batch your photos through Photoshop to change them all into 1k jpegs and start over.
The templates are fun places to start but the mattes are (mostly) designed to crop and scale. so if you have images that are huge, they just get scaled to fit. You want to start with an image that requires the least amount of scaling.
Welcome to the family. Video is hard.
bogiesan

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I have Apple Motion 4 , Apple Motion 5 and Final Cut Pro 7.3.0 in my old mac mini. All were working fine (Not sure about FCP7).I recently installed some Master Templates (Motion 4 & 5) under username1. Now when I try to drag and drop master template to FCP timeline its showing the spinning wait cursor..and its not loading anything even after one hour.
One interesting thing is FCP master templates are working fine without any issue in other logins like username2.
I would like to mention some points here
1. Motion 4 installed under root folder so it will be available for all users
2. Motion 5 installed under username1 so it will not be available for others
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Pls help me
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http://www.digitalrebellion.com/promaintenance/
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2491
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Hi Miro,
I was just experiencing a similar problem today. In my situation I was getting the diagonal lines and the new project wasn't actually being trimmed, it was the same size as the original with all of the media from the original project .
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The trim unused media box (or whatever the check box says) was greyed out.
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Then using the Project Manager everything worked as expected, the project was trimmed down and there were no diagonal lines. I unchecked the "rename media" option, not sure if that was necessary part of the solution.
This seems like a bug to me, we shouldn't have to create a new project, it's an extra unwanted step and clutter on our systems.
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I'm using DW8.02 to manage several sites.
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Templates directory, I want to implement the idea of a 'master'
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> What I'd really like to be able to do is to define this
'master' template
> once
> only (in one of my sites) and have it update ALL sites
(not just the one
> I've
> defined it in) when I change it.
You cannot.
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> Hi,
>
> I'm using DW8.02 to manage several sites.
>
> While each site does have its own 'local' template in
the Templates
> directory,
> I want to implement the idea of a 'master' template that
applies to ALL
> sites.
> This master template will contain stuff common to ALL my
sites, and each
> individual site's template will be nested within this
master template.
>
> What I'd really like to be able to do is to define this
'master' template
> once
> only (in one of my sites) and have it update ALL sites
(not just the one
> I've
> defined it in) when I change it. I can't find a way of
doing this -- does
> anyone know how to, please? The problem I seem to be
having is that DW
> seems
> to treat different sites completely separately, and that
there seems to be
> no
> notion of considering other sites during template
updates.
>
> (I know I could have a duplicate copy of the 'master'
template for EACH
> site,
> but then I would have to update it in several places
whenever there are
> changes!)
>
> Many thanks in advance, and I hope someone has an idea
about how to do
> this!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Nick
>

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