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Rendering is for the birds
So I’ve been using Nucleo Pro since the beta version, but for some reason something is going drastically wrong and I don’t know if it is AE, Nucleo, or OS X.
Here’s the deal — I’m outputting sequences. I do this because lately the power grid in our building has been a total piece of garbage, and screwed me twice this week in the middle of renders. (This project is for NAB too…so this is tough)
This is where it gets strange —- if my machine goes down while running nucleo, the frames it was creating become 0k dummy frames that you have to delete, and re-render, or else they’ll be corrupt. Same with AE, but in my case nucleo makes 4 dummy frames if my box goes down. No big deal, I’ve been dealing with this for a while. But, after I go into my sequence folder, clean out my dummy frames, and then set my output to skip existing files, and then I check to make sure that the render picked up from where it left off, ALL OF MY FRAMES ARE GONE AND WE START BACK AT 1. This is only happening if we lose power, not if the machine goes down. (ie AE crashes)
For instance, I left off at around 10k — and I just re-started it after getting a phone call and I’m back to square one.
Anyone? Comments? Suggestions?
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You have a UPS, yes?
… and some nice books and foos while you babysit the UPS? 🙂 -
Dang it.
Yes we have that, but I was just curious to why my frames vanished when I re-outputted vs. them being read, skipped, and the missing frames replaced.
Nicholas Toth
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Surely, your PC shouldn’t go off if you have UPS? I, on the other hand haven’t, which I know is stupid. But I’m on some other ‘special’ grid to the other plug sockets apparently..but I’m pretty sure it’s not UPS protected – cos when the leccy goes, so does my PC!
Better get one I guess. You can potentially get your HDDs wiped with a power surge/cut can’t you?
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ehh, what’s a UPS? Keeps the power on while everything else goes I guess. But how should it do that?
just curious.
cheers
steve
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It works off a separate battery backup that instantly takes over if the main power (which goes through it) fails.
Anyone working on mission critcal stuff for post/editing, etc should have one…just so happens we don’t! Not been on the blunt end of the ramifications yet, but we really should sort it out before we do!
With more and more media being stored on HDDs rather than tape these days it could get very ugly.
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