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Pan & Zoom Suicide
Any best practices/solutions for Pan & Zoom. I’m doing a slideshow and using approx 2 meg tiffs, none larger than 1000px wide. Working in SD Anamorphic and have set all caches for “video” to conserve memory. I keep getting “unable to allocate memory” and that “unable to start DVAudio device” error. MC Adrenaline/XP w 3G AM and Avid spec’d HP. Any help much appreciated.
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bag it and use After Effects.
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Thanks Grinner. I normally do, but AE isn’t a great app to put a client in front of to watch an 80+ photo and video slide show. I ended up restarting the computer to flush RAM. I also turned playlength on. Combined with the video cache setting that solved my issues. Got through the rest of show with no problems.
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In future project, render the Pan and Zoom shots as you go.
I use Pan and Zoom a lot when we do animatics. If I render after setting 5 – 10 shots it doesn’t fill my RAM, then once the cut is locked I mixdown each P&Z to a video track directly above the effect for further effects (color correction, etc…).
Also, you could try AvidFX. It’s a wonky interface but is great for P&Z, plus you can rotate the pics.
Michael
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Thanks Michael,
I’ll try that. I suppose the machine may not have liked all the unrendereds and color correction. I use a template for P&Z where I collapse the filler track (with effect) and an empty track above for color correction. I cut this into sequence when I need to change pics. Strange perhaps, but usually works well. Will definitely try rendering more often.
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The only way I’ve ever made a lot of pan & zooms work is to mix down segments as I go. Not elegant, but it get’s me through…
Jon
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Walt Whitman
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