[Chris Holland]

Thanks.

That’s too bad though. I am looking at a new Axio System and the ability to blend the frames, add border darkening and do color correction all in realtime with the Storm 2 Card is my favorite part of the card.

Ahh well.

[Chris Holland]

Did you uninstall Aftereffects and reinstall before you did the 6.5.1 Upgrade. You may have a preferences issue. I can’t quite remember how to change your preferences. I think you go to your local settings and just delete the preference file and then it creates a new preference file when you restart.

But my suggestion is to uninstall Aftereffects totally then re-install AE 6.5. Then the upgrade. If you haven’t already done that.

Otherwise I am at a lose. Sorry.

[Chris Holland]

You can use Time Remapping to freeze a frame and have it restart later.

Basically here’s what you do:

1. Layer/Enable Time Remapping
2. Add a keyframe where you want the freeze to start
3. Add another keyframe where you want the freeze to end and change the time to what the first keyframe is. Or just copy the keyframe.
4. Find your end point and adjust your velocity so that it is at 100%. Basically so it plays at regular speed. If you don’t adjust your last frame of video’s keyframe it will speed up your video to fit it in the same time.

Fortunately when you use Time Remapping it basically makes your layer length infinite. You can roam all over that layers video.

[Chris Holland]

If your on windows and using Service Pack 2 that can cause issues. I was getting all kinds of crazy crashes and freezes with SP2. When I went back to SP1 the issues just kind of disappeared.

Just a suggestion, someone else might have a better idea.

[Chris Holland]

Bill,

I was curious what you decided to go with to get it to work and how it turned out?

Thanks

[Chris Holland]

I am looking at some of the same products and have downloaded demos, minus lightwave which doesn’t have one.

I am curious which of these programs has the best tutorial and instruction base? How easy is it to find books teaching them as if we get one I will have to learn it “on my own” ?

Also curious what people think of Blender.

Thanks.

[Chris Holland]

To answer your question I don’t know about the Canopus Adv 110. I don’t use that.

Wanted to bump this back up and hope I get a response in regards to the initial post though and maybe someone can help you with Adv 110.

Thanks,

Chris

[Chris Holland]

Holy Cow. 8 GB of Ram.

I am working with 1 GB and trying to get 2GB.

You guys really must fly through stuff.

[Chris Holland]

Thanks for all the responses.

[Chris Holland]

Another added thought:

If you can defintely do better quality than the local cable you might actually be better off charging more and going for the clients who are not looking for a “local spot”.

As some of the others have mentioned it’s extremely hard to undercut the local cable prices. They are looking to sell the airtime because that’s where they will make there money, especially if they do the cable insertion. And they will charge extremely low rates to get people to buy the airtime. At the expense of quality sometimes. It doesn’t help the client but it gets them more air sales.

In the area I’m in we have a company that does the cable insertion for all the local cable providers (except for there local channel). They are more interested in the air time and keep some stuff in house but there are plenty of businesses that want better production then they can handle.

There are two ways to approach getting the business:

1. Get a sales rep on the inside who sells airtime. Once you’ve got them on your side they could use you for there production that is over a certain amount.

2. Do the sales yourself. You would still have to go through whoever sells the airtime but you may get a percentage if you get a new client to buy airtime.

Either way your are going to have to do some selling on your own. especially when you are just starting out.