Dflamholc
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thanks for all your replies. followed all your advice, but unfortunately nothing has solved it yet. one thing i’ve stumbled into is that there are new drivers at decklink for FCP 5, but only for osx10.4. i don’t run the news osx so i don’t want to use the new driver in case it messes up other functions with my decklink that are working at the moment. don’t have time to upgrade in the middle of this mess, but this might be what’s wrong. we’ve also been thinking that it might just be this particular tape, but it’s seems not i hear from the other side of the room as i type this 🙁
somethings not right somewhere. any other suggestions most welcome, again thanks for your response so far.
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ha ha, cheers 🙂 i wish it was that, but yes i got speakers connected — i can’t see any audio input on any of the audio meters in the log/capture panel, so that would exclude that too. thanks for your reply! /d
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use HOLD keyframes on keyframes with same values, then it doesn’t matter if there is a little bezier curve between the points. there are no invisible keypoints. zoom way in and you’ll see the unwanted bezier curve. it took me forever to get my head around this too. there are lot’s of ways to avoid this, but hold keyframes are the most straight forward to me at least. hope this helps /d
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for a quick solve i’d use a photoshop ‘splatter’ brush and then use simple choker in ae to animate rather than a mask. probably scaling a bit at the same time. otherwise filiming the true thing is clearly a good option
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this boggled my mind for a little while. i was doing some serious motion-tracking a while ago and at first though that these guys really had got busy tracking frames, but then I realised that all the shots with masked out text are lock-offs, and the hand-held-camera-fx is done in post, ae or similar. smart! i’m not hundred percent sure, but if one looks at edges with perspective in shots with mographs in there is no movement between objects far away and foreground. very smart. maybe this was clear to everyone else but me or maybe i’m just making this up. but i’ll be doing it this way myself next time 🙂 /david
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this boggled my mind for a little while. i was doing some serious motion-tracking a while ago and at first though that these guys really had got busy tracking frames, but then I realised that all the shots with masked out text are lock-offs, and the hand-held-camera-fx is done in post, ae or similar. smart! i’m not hundred percent sure, but if one looks at edges with perspective in shots with mographs in there is no movement between objects far away and foreground. very smart. maybe this was clear to everyone else but me or maybe i’m just making this up. but i’ll be doing it this way myself next time 🙂 /david
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cheers for that! took me a sec before i realised i had to double click the tag to get properties! 😮 if you have any pointers to which settings i should be playing with to simulate coin falling on table that’d be super, otherwise, still ever so grateful for a cool link! 🙂 thanks/d
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well there we have it… 🙂 thanks Steve for the link. I did a search the archives, but didn’t hit that thread yet. much appreciate it! good luck 3dstroker (hope you have ae7 – i don’t)
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i’m far from an expert on the topic but i asked this question myself a while ago and learnt from various answers that AE is a 32bit app which can only make use of 2 gigs of ram. i have a dual processor g5 myself with 4gigs of ram as of recently. the cool thing with having more than 2 gigs of ram as i see it is that i can render with the render engine while i work in regular AE. probably the OS, photoshop and illustrator eat a fair bit of ram too, so having 2 designated gigs of ram for working is great. i have no idea if it really works this way inside that tin can next to me on the desk, but 4 gigs certainly moves the train of programs a bit quicker than before and rendering while being able to work on is not a bad thing either… i don’t think you wasted your money on ram, but as far as i know AE can’t use more than 2, so the rest you’ll use on other stuff… if anyone really knows the exact answer to this, i’d be really happy to know too. cheers/d
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a short while ago I had never opened after effects. i knew photshop, illustrator and fcp though, so short of the cash for training cd’s i sat down and did all the AE tutorials here at the cow, top to bottom. that got me to a decent level in about a month. start with that and by cd’s later if you ask me. good luck /d