Adam Portnoy
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That is really brilliant. It’ll be interesting to watch it develop.
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In DVD Studio Pro you can set how it will playback on different ratio screens. 16:9 will play widescreen but on 4:3 it will play back letterboxed. That’s the way I do it. I think you can also tell it just to crop the middle on a 4:3 screen and not show the sides.
– Adam
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Not to create more confusion but you can also work at 854×480 in square pixel and not worry about the 6 lines that will get cropped in DVD compression. If going to certain video editors you may need to squeeze it to 720×480. I will often put the 854×480 video into Apple Compressor and let the MPEG2 compression deal with it. Then just bring that file into DVD Studio Pro. With other software the workflow might be a bit different but shouldn’t be too far off.
– Adam
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You really need a minimum of 1GB/core an preferably 2GB/core (or more). Each core has overhead and needs RAM to support its process.
– Adam
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This might not be of help for you at this moment but Puppet Tool in CS3 would be perfect for this. You could generate 1 tentacle, add puppet points, duplicate it as many times as you need it and parent it to the letter. Then animate each tentacle individually.
– Adam
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Yes, the official news releases don’t seem to be out yet. I heard a rumor last week the AE team was going on vacation very, very soon. I checked Adobe.com last night and it says all CS3 bundles are now available. AE product page has it for sale and downloadable trial version. MacPro users rejoice.
– Adam
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Judy,
During a demo of AE CS3, the Adobe product manager said the best platforms for ‘AE CS3’ are the new Mac Pros and WinXP64 with multiple dual core processors. Apparently these set ups take the best advantage of RAM and the multiple cores. Of course, you need to have enough RAM for the number of cores. Suposedly both these set ups ‘can’ utilize up to 4GB RAM / core. An 8-core xeon with 32GB of RAM would kick serious butt but the price of the RAM will kick your wallets butt. The word on the street seems to be 2GB/core for solid utilization. AE will spawn multiple instances for rendering and each instances wants at least 1.5GB RAM to run effectively. Again, all this is for AE CS3 only. I do not believe AE CS3 is 64-bit but the 64-bit OS allows the use of that much RAM.
– Adam
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As long as the analog and HDMI outputs are in sync from the card, you just need to be able to hook up the analog audio output to your speakers through a mixer or switcher.
When I had the Kona card, all of my system audio and sound output was through the card. I would assume you could do the same with the Intensity Pro but I don’t have one.
– Adam
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Meridian Uncompressed is definitely what should be used for SD work. However, I’ve run into issues when using the codec with an embedded alpha channel. On some footage it would generate artifacts around soft edges like glows. No one has ever been able to provide a solution to this. For things like type we would renders 2:1 compression without issue. If the quality wasn’t good enough we would have to use Animation codec.
– Adam
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Definitely get more RAM. At least 2 GB. The more AE can do in RAM, the less it has to write to the drive, the faster the process will be. Also, use low res proxys until final render. Make the source images smaller if there is too much resolution.
– Adam