Arthur Bueno
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I experienced the same thing with a Maxtor 200 Gb external firewire drive recently. Got the “Delayed write has failed” message often when I switched on the DVcamera (also on a firewire bus), that seemed to confuse XP. It often recovered, but finally it didn’t and the bootsector and first MFT’s got damaged.
I ended up reformatting the drive and it works well again now, but I don’t hot-switch camera’s anymore and switch off the drive only after XP has shut down.
Or try a program called ‘getdataback’, Spinrite also seems to help, but it works from DOS, so you’ll need DOS firewire drivers.
You could also try freezing and immediately copy the files you can access to another drive, if freezing doesn’t help and the disk doesn’t appear to spin, drop the disk on a table from about 5 cm height and try again.
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It seems to me it’s a bit more complicated: the image of the woman seems to be frozen during the zoomout, before she starts running. The frozen frame is enlarged/moved to the right using pan/crop and moves to it’s final position by use of keyframes.
Then the stutter effect can be made with Excalibur, or for instance the spicemaster step-time effect. -
Could you tell us what the biggest advantages are of moving to 64 bit at this moment, for a video editing studio? Any specific area/software where performance increases significantly?
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I’m stunned.
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I think the easiest way to create a cookie cutter with your own shape is:
-open the event pan/crop window
-activate the Mask checkbox in the lower left corner
-choose the anchor creation tool and draw the shape.
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it doesn’t nescessarily have to be done frame by frame. You need a scene with a static camera (no pans/tilts/zooms) and a moment where there are no characters in the scene. You place this empty shot in the track above the shot with the action, crop it so it only covers luke skywalker, so that erases Luke.
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Vegas 6 (material converted to cineform). I put the preview on the secondary display which is the big LCD. I connect it through the DVI ports.
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At full size (Preview-Full) I get a pretty good preview. Still the movement isn’t perfect, I only get a really fluent image when I set it to Preview-Auto, at half the width.
With an m2t file on the timeline it plays less fluent then when I convert to cineform intermediate format.
I changed my videocard from an Ati Radeon 9550 to an Nvidia 6800 GT (256 Mb) for this, but it doesn’t seem to help much. -
It works indeed, very nice. You have to set the alpha channel in the rendered clip though (I set it to ‘straight’).
Do you know if that’s the standard format for working with animation? I’m working with an animator now; he gives me .png files with alpha channel, a seperate file for every frame seems not to be the fastest solution. -
But uncompressed takes a lot of diskspace. Isn’t there any compressed videoformat that supports alpha channel?