Brian Charles
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I’ve done this many times without a problem, the typical use is for a trade show display.
My Comps in AE are set to 854 x 480 square, pixels at 23.976 fps. I render these out with no compression and bring them into DVDSP. The track resolution is 720 x 480i.
These look great on 60″ plasmas.
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Steve is right.
Another technique is to create an edge using a thin Solid layer or some other footage.
Essentially you create a box with a shallow depth. You can nest this object in another Comp so it behaves as a single layer. Or use a Null object to control the rotation/position of the object.
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What does it report in the Interpret Footage dialog?
Are you able to change it there?
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That xtra 14 GB or RAM is wasted on XP but not on After Effects if you get Nucleo Pro. It will speed rendering, RAM previews etc.
Your other options are Vista 🙁
OR
XP 64 bit which I’ve no experience with but understand is flakey.
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First READ THE MANUAL about RAM preview. Sorry but this is a noob question.
In the Comp window:Reduce the preview magnification, reduce the quality to 50%.
Use Shift RAM preview to preview every other frame. OR set the Shift RAM preview options to reduce the number of frames previewed.
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Maltaannon you are relentless. Producing one tutorial after another. Do you have a life?
Pixel Sampler will be very useful.
Thanks.
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You’ve most likely limited your work area to one frame, so there’s nothing to preview.
Reset the work area to the region you want to preview.
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You have a 2D layer (Bird) separating your 3D layers. This breaks the 3D world into 2 parts. Move it to the top.
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The new installers are a pain. Adobe claims its due to the shared libraries and have released a script that will allow a clean install.
It’s available here: https://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs3clean.html
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I don’t want to reignite the Mac vs PC debate but the first questions you need to answer is what software you will use and what your workflow experience and expectations are.
I ditched my Windows machine last fall for a MacPro Quad, loaded it with 4 500GB drives and have it set up to dual boot, so I can run Windows and Macintosh software. Some of my clients prefer me to edit in Premiere, others want FCP. I don’t have any regrets at all. The machine is rock solid in both OS’s.
I primarily run AE, the Creative Suite, Premiere and Final Cut Studio.
RAM for the MacPro is pricey, it needs FB-DIMMS with special heatsinks. Don’t buy the additional RAM from Apple, they charge a premium. Don’t buy it from a discounter either. Get good RAM from a specialist, there are several good ones (Ramjet, OWC among them).
The Nvidia board won’t help with rendering in AE but will with OpenGL previews.
Still, though I’m happy with the Mac, make your decision based on software and your familiarity/workflow.