David Johnson
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Ok, thanks again. It just sounded like he was saying one had to de-interlace first because the Pro Recorder couldn’t do it.
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5Gb RAM isn’t really enough for full HD so that may be your problem … especially if you’re talking several layers and/or layers with effects on them … remember the O/S needs some RAM too.
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You haven’t given enough info, which is why you haven’t gotten any answers, but I’ll try to offer some things to consider anyway …
Make sure you have the latest updates installed for AE CS5.
Turn off Multiprocessing … you’ve got enough cores for 64-bit, but possibly not enough RAM to feed them for both AE and your O/S.
Turn off OpenGL … rarely useful.
Close other software and background processes that are not necessary for your AE work.
Trash AE’s preferences.
Provide more info:
What does “crash” mean to you … freezes? quits?
Does it happen no matter what you add to the timeline?
Does it happen only with the one project or with any AE project?
Have you recently changed anything about your machine (hard or soft)?
What are the details of your project (codecs, resolution, etc.)?
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David, I couldn’t agree more that the COW is an invaluable resource that I wish I had when I first started out. At the same time, please … I implore you … please make clear to your students that professional forums like the COW are not a crutch or easy-button replacement for their own genuine effort. I suspect I’m not the only one who has been frequenting the COW for many years and who has, in recent years, noticed the exponential increase in both number and frequency of questions like “how do I shoot the scene in this film?” and “how do I do the effects in this film?”. Sure those are fair questions in some cases, but when it’s glaringly obvious that the person has never even broken the seal on an equipment/software manual and/or the question is followed by “my assignment is due tomorrow morning, please help!!”, it gets really old after a few hundred of those.
Thanks for considering my thoughts on the subject and best of luck with your classes.
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Thank you, Joshua. Your explanation does clear up the subject and makes perfect sense … I guess my having gotten too little sleep, combined with my impression that the device wasn’t intended for generating broadcast/interlaced H264, made me look right past the idea that the person must’ve been wanting interlaced to interlaced.
Even so, this one comment still seems counter to what you’ve explained:
[Heinz Bihlmeir] “Interlaced sources should be de-interlaced externally before encoding.” -
Thanks for filling in the gaps in my explanation, Greg.
[Kevin Pinga] “But I don’t what you mean by this line:”
‘then composite the calendar precomp onto the wall.’I meant pretty much what Greg said. The only difference is the reason I said “build the pages of the calendar as PS layers, bring that into AE as a comp” … if you put the layers in a folder in PS, they will already be in a precomp when you bring the psd into AE as a comp, rather than as footage. The only difference is that you don’t have to precompose the layers once you’re in AE. By the ‘composite onto the wall’ part, I just meant place the calendar precomp where you want it on top of your video footage of a wall and possibly add some subtle effects to make it look like its real and belongs there.
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If you haven’t already, try …
Making sure you have the latest updates installed for your version of AE, which you didn’t mention.
Turning off Multiprocessing … your machine can’t handle it.
Turning off OpenGL … not very useful … especially when rendering and using a less than optimal machine.
Turning off any background processes your machine may be running that are not essential to rendering … sorry I don’t recall off-hand what the system tool used to do that on a Mac is called.
Using AE’s “Sechret Preferences” … search AE’s help for details.
Seeing if you can figure out what is causing the render fail and change it. Look at the render log file. And, if the fails are happening at the same comp time, look at what effects, etc. are at that time for any issues with effect stacking order, etc.
Rendering to an image sequence so, if all else fails, you can pick up failed renders where they left off and perhaps get through the whole thing with sequential renders after each fail.
I hope this helps.
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Perhaps build the pages of the calendar as PS layers, bring that into AE as a comp, animate flipping the pages with a Page Turn effect, then composite the calendar precomp onto the wall.
Flashing and/or roughening the page edges so they’re not such rigid/perfect lines and adding a very subtle animated shadow might help sell the composite.
I like the Page Turn in Boris Continuum Complete better, but if you don’t have BCC, I’m pretty sure Cycore has a Page Turn too (Cycore is bundled with full versions of AE). You might also add some additional distortions to the pages as they turn to give them a more realistic look (when real pages turn they also distort slightly in places other than the corners). A subtle paper rustling sound effect can also help sell the effect.
Best of luck.
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[Gary Jarvis] I can take my PS layers to any size above 1920 x 1080, as long as the aspect ratio is the relatable, then convert them once I bring them into AE.
Sort of … depending largely on the horsepower of your machine, as layers get bigger and bigger in screen size, they will become more and more cumbersome to work with in AE. And, it’s unclear what you mean by “convert them” … if you mean scale them, yes, you can make them bigger and scale them down in AE, but if you need to work with layers much bigger than 1920×1080, you might consider making them as vector graphics.
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There’s a script out there for just about everything now, but I still consider the best and simplest way to be prevention, rather than solution … only bring each clip into AE once and use the same instance of it in every AE comp..