[Anita Sancha]

Thanks

Getting to grips with this.. that site is really good.

Because it gave info on what each of the blocks of code was there for, I learned a lot and could copy and paste and then strip them apart and change numbers to get the effect I wanted.

Great Thanks.

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

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[Anita Sancha]

Gee thanks guys… loads of help.

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

http://www.anitasancha.co.uk

[Anita Sancha]

Hi..

I subscribe to creative cows podcasts, watch cows tutorials and….. bought loads of books, watch youtube after effects tutorial training.

Even if you only join for 1 month and spend every day on lynda.com its worth it. I did this at first. Sat in bed with the laptop until I was brain dead… brilliant!

Also any training video on net or book from Chad Perkins is well worth sitting with a cuppa tea with..

Good luck

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

http://www.anitasancha.co.uk

[Anita Sancha]

Thanks…greatly…. much clearer

Spent the afternoon testing previewing. Closed all programmes. With multiprocessing off 256 frames were previewed at full res. in 2 mins 5 secs. with it on was 1 min and 29secs. I played about with memory and cache as well, but enable disc cache did not make much difference only ram cache size seemed to.

So an 8 core and 16gb would seem to be much faster. But I could not estimate this but I assume 2 core (multiprocessed 4gb ram) is 1 min 29 secs then 8 core 16gB ram should be a quarter of that, but would not allow for longer than 256 frames previewed. (except by reducing resolution of course).

What difference does the processor make, they have very expensive upgrades to 2.9ghz etc.

Anita.

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

http://www.anitasancha.co.uk

[Anita Sancha]

Hi… thanks.. Darby

I am now very confused. What do you mean by “instance”?

I thought that AE could only use up to 4GB of the ram and therefore a 16GB ram would be a waste of money and 12GB would be never used.

If I have a HD sized animation project with one 4000 framed comp (long… I know!) with say 3D layers, a light and a camera and say 2 adjustment layers and 10 layers of taga sequences. This takes me 50 mins to render out as yet another taga sequence. Can be previewed with difficulty..depending on resolution… in sections by moving the bar along and purge purge purge…. on a Mac book pro. 4GB 2 core 2.5ghz

The apple shop seems to know little about the working speeds of AE with their machines… so If I got a Mac pro how much easier will it be on animations of this sort of size please, any ideas, assuming using multiprocessing etc. 4 or 8 core, as I must have got my facts and understanding of AE’s needs. Are you saying that maybe my render would be 5 mins, instead of 50 mins referring to your quote of 10 x faster, cos that would be brilliant? What about previews?

Thanks muuuucho

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

http://www.anitasancha.co.uk

[Anita Sancha]

Thanks..

So its hold fast and yet again into the wind… me harties!!!

Tide and time will tell .. its a waiting game.

Thanks for your contribution

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

http://www.anitasancha.co.uk

[Anita Sancha]

Hi

this may help, but I am no expert.

I always export ae using sequences either tga and png… then import that or import them into Quick time pro and export how you want them …….may help… I find it “cleaner”.

I use Premier pro though and FCP occasionally

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

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[Anita Sancha]

Thnx could well be… the answer

[Anita Sancha]

Thanks…

It seems I need to purchase something.

I have managed an avi with quicktime pro, and also I am having problems getting really good .mov outputs that have been compressed. I have tried all sorts of exports, almost every type. If I do go and buy something good which is best? flip4mac? squeeze?

I would have thought all this would have been sorted out with the main video packages! They should really be bundled.

what else could I look at? any other software names for me to research would be helpful thanks.

[Anita Sancha]

Hi..

If I use ae and export as wmv it only produces about 1000 frames. of output.. how do I lengthen this output?