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  • David Bogie

    June 5, 2009 at 6:29 pm in reply to: Consolidation in After Effect

    I do this often. However, I first increment and save, THEN reduce.

    bogiesan

  • David Bogie

    June 5, 2009 at 6:28 pm in reply to: Word Silhouette

    Yar. Ain’t that just COOL?

    bogiesan

  • David Bogie

    June 5, 2009 at 4:21 pm in reply to: Fastest configuration?

    [Ed Dooley] “Several years? We’ll be colonizing Jupiter, or at least time-traveling by then. You don’t want to miss *that* in HD. 🙂 “

    Yar, it’s a weird place to be but all of our internal work is shot on DV and released in WMV for streaming. There is absolutely no reason to originate in HD just to turn it all into 15fps postage stamps with eensy bitrates. The bigger question is should we be shooting on HD for archival purposes? Not my decision, thankfully.

    I’m holding out for time travel.

    bogiesan

  • David Bogie

    June 5, 2009 at 4:18 pm in reply to: FCP causing MediaRaid to crash/eject on start up

    You might want to talk to the manufacturer of the RAID.
    Your description does not indicate to me anything that could possibly interfere with RAID or drive functions; they’re just files.

    Does FCP run if you disconnect this RAID?

    bogiesan

  • David Bogie

    June 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm in reply to: Custom Matte Shape

    Easy to create in Motion, too.
    You can build a heart out of three intersecting matte shapes, two ovals (slightly rotated) and a square (rotated 45 degrees).

    Heck, you can draw a heart on paper and shoot it with a still camera.

    bogiesan

  • David Bogie

    June 5, 2009 at 3:17 pm in reply to: Fastest configuration?

    We have no plans to go to HD for several years so I’ll be watching with great interest. Give the wonks a day or two to add their experience, which is much more vast than mine.

    What flavor of HD? There are many and they all have different requirements.
    All of the fastest HD systems of which I am aware are proprietary or hardware-based codecs like Media 100. I’d start asking the other Media 100 users what they’re planning on migrating to in the future if Boris has no plans to enter the 21st Century that you like.

    bogiesan

  • David Bogie

    June 5, 2009 at 3:13 pm in reply to: FCP crashing on startup

    Suggest you research the forum for posts about render and media files ending up the trash. it’s a very strange phenomenon, totally inexplicable.

    Try to recreate this scenario and immediately save the project with a new name. This will create a new render media folder. Try rendering only a single clip at a time.

    > I tried deleting all my render files and this is what happened: I was only able to avoid FCP crashing upon startup by choosing “Continue” when the dialog box informed me the files were missing. When I chose “forget files” the program froze. So when the program opened, I rendered the timeline, so far so good. < Another thing, instead of exporting to Compressor, just export a reference movie and launch Compressor separately, import the ref movie. Also suggest you do this in small chunks to experiment. I do not believe Disk Warrior will help you in this case and it will take manymanymany hours to rebuild the directory on 1TB. bogiesan

  • David Bogie

    June 5, 2009 at 2:56 pm in reply to: Word Silhouette

    Might not be what you need or want but there’s a displacement map tutorial someplace on the Internet called “digital man” or “number man.”
    Used to have it bookmarked. Sorry, cant’ find it.

    bogiesan

  • David Bogie

    June 4, 2009 at 10:35 pm in reply to: Recent Slow Render Times

    Try popping open Activity Monitor and see if you can get a feel for what’s sucking up your CPU cycles, time, or RAM.
    Sudden changes in FCP’s performance are almost always traceable to a recent installation of a game or running a weird app like virus scanning in the background. You could also have acitvated “display all sizes” in open Finder windows. That alone can bring a drive to its knees.

    It’s almost impossible to diagnose by remote control without getting more of a gut feeling from you.

    Give the wonks a few more hours to drop in.

    bogiesan

  • David Bogie

    June 4, 2009 at 10:24 pm in reply to: feature film VFX management in FCP

    Whew, you are way out of my realm! I can’t recall a similar thread.
    Hope you find some good advice and please come back and tell us about the product you selected or how you worked out your automation snags.
    Luck and thanks for starting the thread.

    bogiesan

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