Chris Irving
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Hey Mark,
I think your post got cut off. There is not even a link.
You may want to re-post as I’m sure most people here would be interested in your service!
-Chris
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I agree with Bernard that there will inevitably be a slight difference between local storage and network storage.. but that being said, we regularly work on HUGE projects and have not had any (noticable) slowdowns in After Effects and very little problem with any other app.
Our biggest issue was with 1080 multiple streams to many boxes, but this was an isolated instance, and since the files are HUGE, we were really just pushing the limits of what our storage can deliver.
Now for some questions…
What type of storage are you running? What type of fibre switch are you using and are you sure the ports are configured correctly? How many clients do you have connected? I assume you still have the issue when you only connect one client? Are you running a dedicated Metadata master, and also are you running a dedicated network for your metadata?
-Chris
Chris Irving
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You can still buy Printed Manuals for 9.0 in the Maxon Store. We have a set here, they are two phone book sized volumes. Very helpful for reading up when you are not in front of a computer.
-Chris
Chris Irving
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Hi Micheal,
What version of Cinema 4D are you using?
We use MetaSan and had a similar problem with slowdowns whn we were using 10.0 but we stopped getting the issue when we moved to 10.111 and now with 10.5.
I may run some tests here in the next few days so we can compare notes… most of the scenes we’ve been working on lately are not texture heavy, so I’ll double-check to make sure.
-Chris
Chris Irving
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My biggest question is whether or not it will allow you to load Tiger on it or not.
I know that may seem blasphemous, but our SAN software (not to mention After Effects and the rest of the Adobe Family) will not work in Leopard yet, so we need to stick with the tried and true.
Anybody have thoughts or links?
-Chris
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They already have the RAM available on the http://www.macsales.com website. That is the domain for Other World Computing.
I’ve purchased RAM from there and never had a problem, but full disclosure – I was advised not to do so by a consultant who insists that we only install Samsung RAM as this is what Apple uses and that RAM prolems are a super pain in the *ss to diagnose.
So – do what you will with all that – but it is available.
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Couple of thoughts for you.
a) Cinema already works really well with multiple processors. We see HUGE improvements in our render times when we use our 8 Core machines.
b) If you have a network to render to, NetRender is SUPER easy to set up and administer. It’s really an awesome tool and it’s great that it comes with Cinema.
c) If you are really dead set on trying to multiple instance your app in order to get the best bang for your buck you cold check out Nucleo Pro 2. It can work with CInema files and it definitely works wonders for After Effects.
However, I’d look at your activity monitor first to see how many resources your cinema render is actually using, because if it’s already maxed out, you won’t see any improvement regardless of what you do.
-Chris
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I had the same issue coming from Maya and having to learn C4D on the quick tip.
I haven’t found a magic bullet – and I find there is a void of high end training materials for Cinema (in the way you can pick up a book on MEL and get a great understanding of Maya on a nuts and bolts level) but here are some thoughts.
First – you need to load the help system off of the install disk. Then you can right click over any tool and hte manual pops up in the app which is helpful about 60% of the time.
For quick little overviews and lessons on a WIDE variety of things (but not all) cineversity has proven to be very useful.
CmiVFX.com has some training for Cinema 4D. It is good training, however quite long and I’m not sure if their site allows you to skip ahead in the files or not yet. I opted for their download option which allows me to scrub to wherever I am interested without having to wait for the movie to load into the browser. It’s a couple more bucks but worth it.
CGTalk is still a great resource and has a pretty good community of advanced users.
Ko Maruyama (search in google) has done some great tutorials in Cinema.
Linda.com has a bunch of tutorials but I cannot attest as to their quality.
Maxon incuded a rigging tutorial CD with the 10.5 update which I am told is really great.
Anyone else have any thoughts?
-Chris
Chris Irving
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yeah it was not fun – I think this format is the clear winner in SD for almost any of the work I do, especially keying and such as it can do 24fps. But the caveat is that it leaves alot up to the operator on the day of the shoot, so if you are just doing post – cross your fingers.
Another time – with only one camera, the cameras settings reset to 60i when they swapped out the batteries, and the operator didn’t notice until I called them after recieving the dailes.
If anyone knows any hard-fast rules for working with these issues, I’m all ears.
-Chris
Chris Irving
Director / Motion Graphics – VFX Artist
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In my experience it really depends on how it was shot. If they shot it at 24 and used advanced pulldown then you are better off removing it and editing at 23.98. If they used 2:3 Pulldown then you are cool at 29.97.
The advanced pulldown will playback at 29.97 – but it looks very odd – so I’d recommend you take it to 24.
I just did a project where they used multiple cameras and they weren’t all set the same. It made for some messy fixes at the end of it all.
-Chris