[Alpay Kasal]

ABSOLUTELY, the -m switch is not the most efficient way to do things (you are after all, just running AE twice), it might make life easier for your machine if you were just using the renderengine with -m (which is what I do on my dual xeons boxen).

Steve’s points should be looked at carefully because there is a lot of value in the msg above. When X-Factor was first announced, just reading about the technology knocked my socks off. very cool stuff.

Quick question Steve, is there a product dev’ment person or someone who otherwise handles partnerships at Gridiron? I’d love some contact info. feel free to send it to me privately at “alpay at nycrenderfarm dot com”. Thanks.

[Alpay Kasal]

another method I’ve used is fractal noise with high contrast, then use mosaic or similar effect to get the shape I want.

tip: make a seperate comp of JUST the led display, then bring that comp into your video timeline… this way you can make changes to the LED later with ease, and also position/rotate your led display if you need to.

Alpay Kasal
Admin/Engineer
https://www.NYCRenderfarm.com

[Alpay Kasal]

the gridiron solution is expensive compared to the free “-m” switch. start aftereFX.exe with the -m switch from a commandline (or put the -m in your icon) and you can run After Effects multiple times concurrently. Why is this useful? 2 render engines on one machine means you can max out dual cpu’s.

Believe me, after building out a commercial renderfarm, i got real intimate with all oif AE’s quirks.

Alpay Kasal
Admin/Engineer
https://www.NYCRenderfarm.com

ps: Prepare to drool, I’ve got 28ghz worth of cpu power in a small enclosure sitting in front of me, upgrading my cpu’s soon, I think I’ll be hitting 40ghz by next week. all within an 18″ aluminum case. It’s a beautiful thing 🙂

[Alpay Kasal]

Looks awesome. Am I to understand that the plugin is also responsible for bringing a 3D object into the AE comp? or does a normals map simply appear to be 3D when loaded?

Any idea on a timeline of when the anime/toon plugin is expected? That might prove to be very handy for me in a few months. i am going to start researching my options soon, I have to gather the technologies to easily create half-hour animated eps for show with an anime feel.

thanks.

Alpay Kasal
Artist/Engineer
https://www.NYCRenderfarm.com

[Alpay Kasal]

Looks awesome. Am I to understand that the plugin is also responsible for bringing a 3D object into the AE comp? or does a normals map simply appear to be 3D when loaded?

Any idea on a timeline of when the anime/toon plugin is expected? That might prove to be very handy for me in a few months. i am going to start researching my options soon, I have to gather the technologies to easily create half-hour animated eps for show with an anime feel.

thanks.

Alpay Kasal
Artist/Engineer
https://www.NYCRenderfarm.com

[Alpay Kasal]

Ahhh, that makes sense, I guess. I downloaded the trials for nothing then, I specifically wanted to test drive the integration. It wasn’t too long ago that I got VERY excited about Adobe’s apps getting integrated to find that is wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be (loading AE6.5 projects into Prem1.5). It seems to work great in Adobe’s intro flash videos but I was hoping to see for myself….

Thanks for the help guys.

If anybody has this working right now, I’d love to hear comments about how well AE, Premiere, and Photoshop play together. thanks!

Alpay Kasal
Artist/Engineer
https://www.NYCRenderfarm.com

[Alpay Kasal]

i may have answered my own question just now after visiting Cineform’s support site…

“Why can’t I place a Pan/Zoom/Rotate effect, and a Motion effect on the same clip simultaneously?
This is currently a known issue in Aspect HD and will be addressed in a future release. To work around this problem, add one of the effects, render the segment, and then add the other effect. Please check the ‘Downloads’ section of our website periodically for all available updates.”

if anyone has any other suggestions, i’m wide open…. thanks.

Alpay Kasal
Artist/Engineer
https://www.NYCRenderfarm.com

[Alpay Kasal]

actually, I know why my off-the-cuff math was almost double, I’m considering total number of pixels instead of zoom percentage as it would be in any software. Technically speaking, when zooming in to about 200%, you’re getting a 200% zoom of X pixels and Y pixels. I guess the math wasn’t off, just misleading because I was counting pixels rather than percent 🙂

Alpay Kasal
Artist/Engineer
https://www.NYCRenderfarm.com

[Alpay Kasal]

Thanks so much for your effort first off…

I switched to GDI playback from the Direct3D setting it was at. btw, I have a radeon 9800pro with the latest catalyst drivers. I also want to mention again that the problem exists on the firewire out, I would think the radeon has nothing to do with playing out to DV… but hey, thats why I’m here with my questions 🙂 let me know if you think this really could be the problem, I’ll install the “Omega” drivers, a hack, a some say an improvement on ATI’s driver work. It solved problems I had with a laptop so I’m not so scared of the “Omega”.

>The only problem is I don’t know why splitting a clip with the razor is causing this behavior, or why adding a null effect is fixing it.

I’m doing it right now under this firefox window… it’s a royal PIA, huge chunks of my timeline have th eol’ red bars because of this problem. Thanks again for the help.

Alpay Kasal
Artist/Engineer
https://www.NYCRenderfarm.com

[Alpay Kasal]

good point, I think Premiere uses a Mainconcept dv codec internally and it’s problematic for some. If Premiere is part of your workflow, this could be it. You can switch to the microsoft DV codec, i believe most people are using a panasonic dv codec as it is much better.