[Danny Perez-triana]

no luck thus far. still getting jagged, budget-looking renders.
tried the differen wire draft modes, open gl isn’t selected in the render.

dealing with 1920 X 1080 comp, outputting to an apple pro res file.

if anyone has a clue, it would be much appreciated. Had to leave the job for a couple days so wasn’t able to respond earlier. hope all is well!

Ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

Thanks so much, I’m on the road right now but will
Check that soon.

Sounds about right with all this info

Thanks again,

Ignacio

[Danny Perez-triana]

so, unfortunately this didn’t solve my problem. it’s still just this one clip and perhaps i’ll try to even redigitize the shot and just bring it as something totally different (name wise at least?).

other than that, these “gremilins” are relentless in their inconsistency.

ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

i was unable to access this special window no how many configurations of holding down shift and selecting i did.

and now i tried to render again, after freeing up memory and my ae just crashed.

blegh
ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

thanks for the tips richard i’ll give it a try in a bit when i can take off to rerender everything after.

sounds good,

ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

so ultimately, you’re suggesting rendering out as dv, but have the sequence set to pro res?

is there a significant quality disparity between these two compressions?

i’m dealing with all dv footage (shot in 24p) and these ae clips are lots of composities and animations.

my tb drive has about 300gb left on it. i just recently started using it cause i previously had 5 external drives daisy chained together running into firewire 400. this was causing my playback to stop after a minute or two in the timeline cause “discs are too slow” error message. so i figured i would consolidate the drives and now have my old drives as a backup.

if it is a case of the drive being near capacity, would it be advantageous to keep all these final renders from ae, on my computer’s drive which has a lot of space and that way they wouldn’t be playing from the tb drive? i guess i would have to set the disc preferences to then include the mac hd as a scratch disc?

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[Danny Perez-triana]

the ram was stacked in the only configuration that allowed the computer to read all 10gb. it took me a couple tries to get it past only reading 8gb.

my playback controls (unlimited, safe) are available but don’t seem to make a difference with the problem.

my sequence is set to 720x 486 square pixel, the pixel aspect ratio is ntsc-ccir 601/dv, aspect ratio is ntsc dv (3:2).

i could try exporting them as quicktime movies. my only reservation is that these shots have already been through the digital wringer so to speak, and i’d like to avoid compressing them again, even if it is at apple pro res. or does this really make a difference as far as generational loss goes?

also, did you export them straight from the viewer rather than dropping them in the timeline, to avoid this render issue? i’ve never done that. but i’ll give it a try.
thanks for your advice!

ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

i’ve since transferred everything from my 5 daisychained drives to one terrabyte drive. didn’t really seem to help.

i’ve had to re-render all my ae clips as either apple pro res 422 HQ or dv ntsc 24p to get them to play in my timeline. this means i’ve had to go back into two years worth of after effects projects to fish out the original compositions, which is a huge pain, but it’s the only thing i can do right now to get smooth playback in my timeline.

i don’t understand why fc 6 with all it’s features boasting being able to play different formats in one timeline, it’s unable to play clips with different compressions, i’m especially confused cause i’ve been rendering everything as animation in ae and played it fine in fc for the past year until recently?

thanks for the tip though,

ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

i tried a test with one of the clips in question and opened it in a new final cut sequence in a new project without my drives turned on or connected to the computer. the clip was playing from the harddrive of the computer and it played fine.

im in the process of transferring my capture scratch over to a terrabyte drive that should limit my external drives from 5 to 2 drives total.

i dont understand how a much older g5 1.6 could play the clips fine in fcp5, with the same configuration of drives, while my new macpro can’t and it has ten gb of ram?!

but using this new terra while allow me to just use my old drives as a backup, which i need anyways.

ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

i quit fcp and hit trash, but did not get this prompt upon restarting, i’ll try again. thanks,

ignacio

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