[Andrew Bird]

Unforutunately that’s exactly what I am doing again today. Writing down submixes, writing down all track plug in settings then typing them back in, number by number 25 scenes from different freelancers (who unfortunately started to ignore my audio mix template later in the project).

This request to save presets and track presets is pretty infuriating and has been requested for a few years now.
Offlaying to audition isn’t a great help just yet, but Audition has a great dev team who are working hard to making it a good go-to- audio NLE.

[Andrew Bird]

Note: Sticky cursor is still an issue in 2016!
Our illustrator/ rotoscoper also has this problem and it sometimes also results in dropping any video output (mercury transmit). Both using a Wacom tablet.

-Using a mouse only is not a workaround for most of us here as we use Wacom/Cintiq for nav in every application. Specially us oldies in vis-comms who have RSI! yeeesh!

AS this only happens every couple of days, a quick AE restart fixes it and isn’t a problem.

[Andrew Bird]

Another workaround to this 🙂

Format text in Illustrator then paste into Titler (CC 2016). We’ve found this workflow to be actually quicker than working in Premier Titler for subtitling as we can spell check and change case more easily in Ai.

[Andrew Bird]

Ditto!
Empty audio tracks. Target Track highlighted (of course!). Caches, emptied. Preferences Trashed. Sudo:Purged. Restarted.

Workaround was to place footage into a separate timeline then cut/paste it into my current assemble.
Obviously a temporary fix and we’ll se how that works out when footage comes in!

[Andrew Bird]

Premiere Pro 2015.
We are behind schedule for a live OB, because we can’t get audio out of Premiere CC2015.

1) 4 tracks high.
Plays back fine, on export “Unknown error” “Error compiling movie”.

2)4 tracks high
Exports fine but has glitches, repeats audio, cuts audio off.

Successful Workarounds:
Send audio out to Audition, then lay it back.
Avoiding Media Encoder and rendering 422 out of Premiere then use Streamclip to
compress.

XML into Final Cut 7 and then Export, was rather quick, too.

[Andrew Bird]

Never too late!

I have been wondering the same thing. I use Mir which is wonderful but the control is somewhat random.

Any advice on how to control 3D wireframe shapes and build a wireframe city which grows into life out of neon-wireframe lines as the camera tracks through? Sounds like a C4D or Modo thing already to me!

[Andrew Bird]

Thanks!

I am going with the same as yourself.
16GB though and a nice 30″ monitor. Boom. Done. And i got rid of my beautiful old iMac in the process.

When corporates ask for the classic light trails (of 4000 particles) and that kills the new machine, i’ll simply be back animating that null, no problems:) And i’ll do an interpretive ribbon dance to the Null object!

To anyone else reading this thread, there is a good system based render time comparison page here: https://forums.mattrunks.com/discussion/10/benchmark-collaboratif-sur-le-raytracing-dafter-effects-cs6

[Andrew Bird]

Thanks John! 🙂
That’s a nice answer.
I’ve read those pages a few times but I think your advice is good about getting the dual card.

I’m chatting to a couple of AE-Mac people this morning just to clear up the advantage of having a dual card lappie but for the most part, a single GTX750 is working for me here on the desktop and for the other designers in this office. No one has the dual card machine here, though.

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I don’t really see a huge benefit in a high spec gfx card for NLE’s FCPro or Premiere when dealing with normal editing duties (not compositing or grading). NLE’s have been running smoothly on my 2008 MBP, which is still a great machine for editing short form on. Not so good for HD content in AE. She’s also looking super shabby these days after 5 years of on location 😉

[Andrew Bird]

Thanks John!
I am beginning to see that perhaps the dual graphics card maybe isnt such a large advantage. (I would like to be corrected on this). AE does use the GPU for fast draught and thats the essential part for location work and not being embarassed in front of the boss.. I think i’ll be fine with a single Nvidia750 MBP.

I havent been brave enough to use RayTracing yet on a job! 😉

FYI: We had terrible performance with the Quad i7 AMD mac

[Andrew Bird]

Really keen on knowing the outcome of this!

I use After Effects on location and desperately need to upgrade before next weeks job.
I am about to grab either a single or dual 2.5Ghz, i7:

MBP/ nvidia Gtx750m.
Or an
MBP IrisPro/ nvidia Gtx750m.

Cant find any cohesive info.
Does anyone know what the advantage of dual graphics card i7 MBP?
Can After Effects use both simultaneously like it can with CUDA cards? Does AE use both cards to render or fast draught?

Why bother with a dual video card at all?
Appreciate your help, legends!