Bobby Mosaedi
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you could try moving your third-party plugins to a different folder and then start up. if it starts up ok, start placing your plugins back one by one and opening ae everytime until you find the bad plugin. once you find the bad plugin see if it has its own preference file, or check the company’s website on how to troubleshoot it
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the render farm is a great idea. i just got a hold of an imac G5, so that will definitely help. there will also be a dual 500mhz g4 there to add to the farm. thanks!
im delivering the A/V guys quicktime movies, and they are only about 30 seconds each, so i will be able to deliver files via DVD-ROM. i believe they are using a WATCHOUT system to blend multiple projectors together to take full advantage of the screen resolutions. Their computers? i have no idea but am eager to see their setup . its for an event in las vegas, so there no telling what expensive crazy system they have.
i am gonna get some RAM for the imac g5 pronto. ive never used a render fram before. will i have to load all my 3rd party plugins to the other computers too?
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how do you have your PC connected to your mac? the easiest way is to use a router with DHCP. OS X has no problem communicating with windows computers. On the the PC side, its not as easy to connect, but it can still be done by configuring “my network places” either set up a new connection and type in the IP addres of your mac then your username and password. Also, make sure that file sharing/appletalk is enabled on both systems. Windows: right click the hard drive you want, then go to the sharing tab and tell it to share the drive on the network. on Mac: go to system preferences, network, turn on appletalk and make sure you check the box that enables windows file sharing. Ideally, if you leave both systems on a lot, you can just mount the drives on your mac and create a shortcut on the windows machine. i can explain further if you need more help, but that should get you going.
I don’t have any background on the cinemacraft encoder, but if you have the media100 transcoder on the PC, you can do MPEG2 conversions. PCs are wicked fast for anything involving processor intensive rendering/encoding in comparison to macs.
And as for your media 100/ G5, what kind of media 100 is it? if it is a media100i system, you will need a magma expansion chassis that costs extra $$ and the performance gain is not as exponential as you would assume. If it is a media100 HD , make sure it works and you get the cables and break out box. If you plan on doing high definition video though, you will need some form of high-speed storage (apple xserve RAID, etc) to do real-time uncompressed HD only. if you go the final cut route, you can work with HDV/DVCPROHD material on firewire/internal system drives at a low expense. Mind you though, you will need to purchase some kind of hardware I/O support for your final cut system if you want to do any kind of SDI capture/monitoring/ mastering etc. Hope this helps
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if you have access to a sony1024 multimedia switcher, you can hook up your media100 and laptop to it and do a real time record with builds and set your edges. its NTSC, so ther ewill be some quality loss, but its super quick and easy
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media100i is so rock solid. we still use those systems for doing simple award graphics using boris for real-time titles under moving backgrounds. to depend on a media100 as a playback machine on-site is a pretty big risk, and was back in the 5.5 days, but the 8.2.2 xs system in our dual 1.42 G4 is pretty much bulletproof. i cannot remember the last time i had a hard crash, and thats with AE and m100i open and rendering simultaneously! media100 hd still has a ways to go , although in april we will take media100hd to seattle to do some uncompressed hd playback for a live show. fingers crossed, but i know things will go wrong so we will have a tape backup.
one thing you could do is just find the fastest, maxed out G4 machine and stick your p6000 card in there and install the codecs. we still have some older dual500 g4’s i want to upgrade that have p6000’s in them.
i must say the problems i have had in M100hd have all been centered around working in SD with the media100i codec. its performs very, very well working in 1080i and xserve raid.
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surprisingly, they feel almost exactly the same. i feel thats what the designers were going for. have you worked with media 100sw yet? it is the exact same software interface. The nice thing about the HDx board is that it works well third party programs that support it like after effects. Personally, i do feel a little bit of lag in the HD system when compared to a rock solid 8.2.2 i system, working with SD material in the media100i codec. im guessing it is because in the G5 the i codec is being processed all in software and processor now as opposed to the p6000 board. but it is still leaps and bounds ahead when it comes to rendering. hope that helps
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You need to change the settings out of your camera/deck. It is set to squeeze right now, change the output to letterbox and it will send a letterboxed signal out to your media 100.
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OK! looks like taking the raw captured clip from the finder and exporting out of mpeg streamclip totally got rid of the lines. I only wish MPEG streamclip had a batch function. fortunately, since there is not a whole lot of footage, i can probably get away by importing all the clips at once and exporting one big file overnight and re-cut them again in M100HD. boy is there a night and day difference. the gamma from mpeg streamclip also more closely matched to the native file as well. The one exported out of FCP seems to have crushed the blacks. oh well, this will work… for now
something about exporting out of fcp directly, didn’t do the trick… if anyone comes up with a solution of how to get HDV clips out of FCP and into M100HD, please let me know. thanks.
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try using the DV NTSC setting. will you be mastering out to DV?
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what exactly is prerender?