[David Modijefsky]

Oops, I did a search without ‘archives’ checked on. Now I’ve found ‘squach & stretch’ from Dan which I was able to modify to my needs with my limited knowledge of expressions. That leaves me with 1 question though. The expression only works when the layer starts at frame 0. How do I alter the code so that I can move the layer in point where ever I like? The problems are in lines 4 and 5 I guess. This is what I have so far:

max_dev=20; // max deviation in pixels
spd=35; //speed of oscillation
decay=10; //how fast it slows down
x=scale[0]+max_dev*Math.sin(spd*(time-in_point))/Math.exp(decay*time);
y=scale[0]+max_dev*Math.sin(spd*(time-in_point))/Math.exp(decay*time);
[x,y]

[David Modijefsky]

Oops, I did a search without ‘archives’ checked on. Now I’ve found ‘squach & stretch’ from Dan which I was able to modify to my needs with my limited knowledge of expressions. That leaves me with 1 question though. The expression only works when the layer starts at frame 0. How do I alter the code so that I can move the layer in point where ever I like? The problems are in lines 4 and 5 I guess. This is what I have so far:

max_dev=20; // max deviation in pixels
spd=35; //speed of oscillation
decay=10; //how fast it slows down
x=scale[0]+max_dev*Math.sin(spd*(time-in_point))/Math.exp(decay*time);
y=scale[0]+max_dev*Math.sin(spd*(time-in_point))/Math.exp(decay*time);
[x,y]

[David Modijefsky]

I think I’ve found it. According to a post in the AE forum here on the Cow there’s a bug in the “Video preview” prefs. I’ve turned off the “mirror on computer monitor” and now the preview looks a lot better.

[David Modijefsky]

I just recently have FCP for capturing DV stuff. I’m still a novice there so I get a bit lost in terminology and finding the right capture presets in FCP. Anyway, I rendered out a test file uncompressed/upper in AE7 and imported that in FCP. Did a preview and it looks ok. Come to think of it, wasn’t there an issue with AE not being able to give a decent RAM-preview that supports fields on broadcast monitors? Sorry if my questions are a bit lame but for a print guy it’s sometimes a bit confusing. Everything we see is always wysiwyg.

[David Modijefsky]

Sorry, maybe I wasn’t clear enough in explaining my problem. The preview issue occurs only with previewing through the Decklink card on the broadcast monitor. The computer monitor (ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb) views ok.

[David Modijefsky]

Nope Charlie, the switches are set to hi quality. It’s not a type issue but with type I noticed this problem first. But even on a solid of let’s say 200 by 100 px rotated around 17 degrees it looks ugly.

[David Modijefsky]

Yep, and there are more issues like stuttering when playing even small qt file. Take a look here:

https://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-40226.html

https://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060303144936407&query=quicktime

[David Modijefsky]

There’s even a widget for storage calculation:
https://digital-heaven.co.uk/videospace/

what will this button do?

[David Modijefsky]

Sorry, I got mixed up with the Ram threshold of Motion which is 4Gb.

[David Modijefsky]

Thanks Steve. The improvements are minor. They could call it AE 6.6 as well. Correct me if I’m wrong but the Ram threshold used to be 4 Gb wasn’t it? Also no benefit from dual processors or dual core right?