[Carolyn Fusinato]

https://fusinatodesign.blogspot.com/2006/01/project-cbs-eye-animation-project.html

Instead of tiling the “eye” put a line of text in.
Basically use twirl, linear gradient, & a little 3D rotation.

-Carolyn
http://www.fusinatodesign.com

[Carolyn Fusinato]

just an fyi,

I manage fonts by using the user font folder on a renderfarm account that I create on each machine. I connect all renderfarm machines’ user folders by using a buch of afp internet location shortcuts like: afp://renderfarm1:password@IP.Address/renderfarm1 & then syncing the font folders. To get the fonts to load, log out of the account and log back in on the individual machine or just restart a monitorless renderfarm computer.

We use two 500 Mhz G3s & a dual 1 gig G4 as permanent renderfarm machines and rotate any unused computers into the renderfarm when needed. Typically I’m using the two G3s & the G4, another dual 1 gig G4 and a dual 2Gig G5 to render on the renderfarm and I can take a project that would be a 45 minute render on my dual 2.5 Gig machine down to 5-6 minutes.

To then convert the targa sequence to any other format takes another minute.

Is it worth using a renderfarm to render?
H*CK YA!

-Carolyn

[Carolyn Fusinato]

some stuff got editted out of my original post accdientily… it should say:

an After Effects Script file called watchfolder.jsx contains:
var MyFolder = new Folder(“[your watch folder]”);
app.watchFolder(MyFolder);

an After Effects Script file called end.jsx contains:
app.endWatchFolder();

an Applescript saved as an application which I call “Start Renderfarm”:

mount volume “[your networked volume]”
set the_file to “/Applications/Adobe After Effects 7.0 RE/Scripts/watchfolder.jsx”
set the_otherfile to “/Applications/Adobe After Effects 7.0 RE/Scripts/end.jsx”
set the new_file to POSIX file the_file
set the new_otherfile to POSIX file the_otherfile

ignoring application responses

tell application “Adobe After Effects 7.0”
DoScript new_file
end tell
end ignoring

delay 5

ignoring application responses
tell application “Adobe After Effects 7.0”
DoScript new_otherfile with override
DoScript new_file
end tell

end ignoring

[Carolyn Fusinato]

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=871896

hope that helps!

-Carolyn
http://www.fusinatodesign.com

[Carolyn Fusinato]

Hey Erik!

AVID recommends that “To use Avid source footage in After Effects, Adobe recommends exporting Avid clips in a movie format because QuickTime and AVI formats allow you to maintain the Avid compression” https://www.avid.com/onlineSupport/supportcontent.asp?contentID=3096

They also recommend capturing the footage at the best quality that you can. For a key that may be necessary, but most of the time I import footage at the settings that our editors edit in which is AVID Meridien 2:1 or AVID DV. If you don’t know if your editing system is lower field or upper field priority, test it. I use Tim Bowman’s handy Field Order Test found at https://netherlogic.com/tv_tools/.

The AVID DV codec is a little hard to get for the Mac. I installed the AVID DV Free ap in order to get it. You can download the Meridien codec off the AVID site. If you edit on the same platform that you’re working in after effects on then you can import the codecs from the editor’s computer.

Export Settings from AVIDs
———————————————–
Exporting from AVID Adrenaline
//Editing DV
Export As: Quicktime Movie
In Format Options:
Video Settings: Avid DV, Best Quality, Options:
(Color Input: ITU-R 601 (16-235), Resolutions:
DV25 NTSC 411), Frames per second: 29.97
Sound: Uncompressed, 48 Khz, 16 sample size, Stereo
Custom:
Video & Audio
Video Format: 720 x 486, Size to Fit
Color Levels: RGB
File Field Order: Lwr Field First
Display Aspect Ratio: Native dimensions (720 x 486)

Exporting from AVID Symphony
//Editing 2:1 Compressed
Export As: Quicktime Movie
In Format Options:
Video Settings: Avid Meridien Compressed, Best Quality, Options:
(Color Input: ITU-R 601 (16-235), Video Format: NTSC, Resolutions:
2:1 Interlaced), Frames per second: 29.97
Sound: Uncompressed, 48 Khz, 16 sample size, Stereo
Custom:
Video & Audio
Video Format: 720 x 486, Size to Fit
Color Levels: RGB
File Field Order: Lwr Field First
Display Aspect Ratio: Native dimensions (720 x 486)

//Editing Uncompressed
Export As: Quicktime Movie
In Format Options:
Video Settings: Avid Meridien Uncompressed, Best Quality, Options:
(Color Input: ITU-R 601 (16-235), Type: Meridien Interlaced, Video Format: NTSC),
Frames per second: 29.97
Sound: Uncompressed, 48 Khz, 16 sample size, Stereo
Custom:
Video & Audio
Video Format: 720 x 486, Size to Fit
Color Levels: RGB
File Field Order: Lwr Field First
Display Aspect Ratio: Native dimensions (720 x 486)

Render Settings from After Effects
———————————————–
For the Avid Symphony or Adrenaline

If comp has Alpha
Render Settings: DV Settings
Output Module: Avid Meridien Comp 2:1 +K Straig

If comp has No Alpha
Render Settings: DV Settings
Output Module: Avid Meridien Compressed 2:1

For the Avid Newscutters

Render Settings: DV Settings
Output Module: Avid DV

For comp with Alpha, render 2nd mov that is alpha only
Render Settings: DV Settings
Output Module: Avid DV Alpha

AE Output Module Settings

AVID Meridien Comp 2:1 +K Straig
———————————————–
Format: Quicktime Movie
Output Info: Avid Meridien Compressed, RGB Levels (0-255), NTSC, Resolution: 2:1 Interlaced, Spatial Quality = Most (100)
Channels: RGB + Alpha
Depth: Millions of Colors+
Color: Straight

AVID DV Alpha
———————————————–
Format: Quicktime Movie
Output Info: Avid DV, RGB Levels (0-255), Resolution: DV25 NTSC 411, Spatial Quality = Most (100)
Channels: Alpha
Depth: Millions of Colors
Color: Premultiplied

You can see I convert from the editing YUV color space to RGB colors for compositing and back to YUV when importing back to the editing platform.

Don’t worry about stuff not looking good on your computer monitor. Your computer monitor is not the best to use for quality control for video. Send the signal out to a Broadcast Monitor from AE using Video Preview to tell if your adjustments are good. Also, AE just isn’t the best keyer out there. Third Party plugins might help.

-Carolyn

Carolyn Fusinato
http://www.fusinatodesign.com

[Carolyn Fusinato]

Can the plug-in be authenticated for render farms?

-Carolyn