Austin Wallender
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I don’t know about monkey extract, but I’ve played with the r3d trimming in the latest Storm beta, and it seems to work as advertised with FCP xml files. Definitely worth a try if you’re bringing a huge red project into davinci.
https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/storm/
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i haven’t used the watch folder in CS3, but in the past it’s been a disaster. We’re currently looking at deadline, rush, and drqueue. many others love royal render too.
In a pinch, you can just do it manually (or with a script) with the command line renderer and make sure you check ‘skip rendered frames’ in your output module.
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The r10 plugin doesn’t seem to like AE CS3 on my intel mac. Is there an updated version?
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My Macbook (not pro) renders faster than my dual g5 in CS3 (beta), and I made a lot of great stuff on that box. “Dog slow” is more than unfair – that machine will be fine, esp for a beginner.
If you really want to get into Motion Graphics, learn After Effects. The new motion is cool, but AE is the standard for desktop compositing.
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What I usually do is create a standard black to white grad with Ramp, and then apply Colorama. That lets you add lots of color points, and change the transitions from color to color and even the transparancy of each point…. very handy, and no 3rd party neccesary.
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everyone has their favorites. cinema and invigorator are good places to start, but if you want to do complicated things, you’re going to hit a wall with invigorator. Lightwave, Maya, and Max all have fervent followings as well. I would download some demos and play around.
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I’m not sure I understand the post about Apple’s pricing here. Personally, I own Motion, and would be ecstatic to upgrade to FCP studio for $199. There may be a minority who end up paying more, but I’m betting that they were selling very few individual copies of motion, soundtrack, and dvd studio pro.
As for Adobe, I think their upgrades have been extremely fair in the past, and this one is not great, but the workflow efficiencies are worth it to me. Comparing AE to shake/df/c*, the ui is the first thing that usually comes up. I’m glad they finally approached it – I’m sick of the palette window shuffle
If you don’t want to upgrade, wait for 8. Do what works for you and your business.
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I’m not sure I understand the post about Apple’s pricing here. Personally, I own Motion, and would be ecstatic to upgrade to FCP studio for $199. There may be a minority who end up paying more, but I’m betting that they were selling very few individual copies of motion, soundtrack, and dvd studio pro.
As for Adobe, I think their upgrades have been extremely fair in the past, and this one is not great, but the workflow efficiencies are worth it to me. Comparing AE to shake/df/c*, the ui is the first thing that usually comes up. I’m glad they finally approached it – I’m sick of the palette window shuffle
If you don’t want to upgrade, wait for 8. Do what works for you and your business.
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Is your comp 720×480? If your comp is720x486, it will get resized and make it look even worse than before. I usually drop my D1 comp in a 720×480 comp for ram-previews… (clipping 6 fields).