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Dream machine? Well I certainly hope so. Otherwise my boss will shoot me if I start complaining again that I don’t have the tools to do the job 😉

What I have in my animation is one animated, masked, solid layer with two animated edge glow effects on it and it’s so slow. I had to turn off the effects, animate the layer as I want to, render the clip to file and preview it, then make changes to effects animation, render & preview again, changes, render&preview, changes,….. And so on and so on. Incredibly time consuming.

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I have 2.7 dual Xeon with 2G RAM and AE is slooooooow when I put Saphire edge glow effects. Almost impossible to preview it. Now I’m waiting for G5 dual 2.7, 4G RAM, I should get it in two weeks and I can tell you then if the performance improved and for how much. But I guess that there isn’t a computer fast enough in this world to handle multiple effects on multiple layers in AE.

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Thanks Mike, I did read your review on killer tips, but you wrote a review for CS version, not CS2. Also, are there tutorials inside or just tips? Or are tips tutorial style or just listed tips? I hope you know what I wanted to ask. Is it possible to see something from inside on the internet?

I also see Illustrator gone wild coming in october. Do you know some of that?

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I must thank everybody for such qick response. As you guessed, I’ve never done such a ‘thing’ yet. All I’ve done was short clips, usualy for CD presentations or web and this client wanted a 2h TV broadcast project. How could I say no?

Thank you for warning me about editing 2h in AE. What was I thinking. It would be a disaster.

1. Ripping / firewire capture. I still don’t understand what you were saying, but I will try all of the approaches you mentioned and will see the results. I will experiment a bit.

2. Anyway I will first edit all of the original 2h footage in Premiere. Then I will find where to do the magic and edit just those parts in AE and then put them back in Premiere. Then I will render the movie in very bad quality from Premiere and put it in AE just for syncing and there I will do the telephone numbers animation and other extra object. At the end I will render these extra stuff with alpha and complete the job in Premiere. What should be the render settings for final stuff? Should I use codec or print to DV tape?

3. Hopefully the final project will be less than 200G and I will take the disk to post house so they can finish the job for TV.

Thanks again

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Thanks a lot. I already phoned a post house and they will tell me what to do after I do the animation. Still I need some ripping tips. I have DVD ripping software but what codecs and what quality should I use. If I could get 6h in 65G, that’s great. I guess if I rip it to JPG or TIFF sequence will be ok, since I don’t need the audio?

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MISTAKE!!!!

File size is not correct in previous post. 10 seconds are 320M, so 2h is 230GB. Still too much. If I have 6h of footages to mix and edit I would need 700GB + 250GB for final project. That’s not possible. What should I do?

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1. The problem is – I am the post house. My client expects that I deliver my work (his 2h ads) to different local TV stations. I have to take care of the entire process from DVD to 2h film to TV broadcast. How?

2. I see MPEG StreamClip is for Mac, but I use PC. Client will invest in buying me a Mac if the project is success. So I’m back at the beginning, at ripping 🙁 I did a test as you suggested and the results are catastrophic. I ripped 20 sek in uncompressed avi and the file size iz 8GB, for 2h movie that would be 2880GB. What are your experiences in file sizes if you rip with P-JPEG codec, let’s say 1 minute?

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Thanks for the animator advice. I think this is what I was looking for.