Dirk De jong
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are you saying you are losing the fields during playback on a rendered effect (or an unrendered effect) ?
Dirk
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or just let SoundKeys determine the Rotation parameter value of the layer and then set the layer to use a smoothly rotating null as its parent layer. I think that in this case since you’re talking about one of the transforms that parenting works for, this is a solution that will work. But it’s an interesting question (that I’d like to hear any answers to) how to do this for other kinds of parameters (like a filter parameter) that aren’t included in parenting…
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I guess the short answer(s) would be “Yes” there are in fact plans for adding more jitter/randomization types of animation features to future releases of our products, but “No” there isn’t currently something exactly like Twitch in our products (I say that based on watching the Twitch demo movie online) – but if you give me more specifics about the look you’re trying to achieve I might be able to offer some suggestions of how to go about doing it – what aspect of your effect are you trying to “Twitch” and which Boris product(s) are you using ?
Dirk
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That video card model (GeForce GTX260) wasn’t approved for the initial BCC6 release, but we expect to approve it for a point release. And our expectation is that the BCC 3D Object plugins will work well with that video card.
Clicking the “yes” button in the warning dialogue should enable the plugin but it seems that’s not working. If you contact support@borisfx.com I believe we can easily help you get it working so you can try the 3D Object plugins. When you contact BorisFX support feel free to quote this message and mention my name to help them understand what the issue is right away.
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Hi John –
I don’t have hard data comparing BLUE on those 2 boards so I’m hesitant to recommend for you to upgrade your video card just for a boost using BLUE.
Is this something you are considering because you aren’t satisfied with the performance you’re getting with BLUE on the GeForce ?
I know some GeForce 8600 GTS cards have 256mb of VRAM and some have 512 – what does yours have ?
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Fotis Vassis on Oct 16, 2008 at 5:25:16 pm wrote
“Hi and thanks for your answer. As I can see there are 5 options, Best,Fast,Web,Custom,Preview”Actually, I’m not referring to those options, I’m talking about the options you see if you have a Scene Container track selected in the timeline and you are viewing the render Tab in the Controls window. For a simple 2D effect you could probably set the Final Quality there to Basic or Good.
The fact that a targa sequence is taking 17x longer than an AVI is very surprising and it sounds like something is very wrong in that case. I will have that tested here at BorisFX to see if we can explain it.
The 1 minute export time for a simple 10 second effect also sounds longer than expected but might improve by changing the Final Quality setting I mention above. You said you have a Radeon X1950 and the resolution is 1280×720 ?
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In the “Render” tab of a the Scene container for a BLUE composition, there is a popup menu for setting the Final Quality of the effect. This popup menu determines the level of anti-aliasing applied when exporting the effect or viewing it in HQ mode. There are 4 Final Quality options:
– Basic (no anti-aliasing – same quality as Draft mode)
– Good (anti-aliasing done entirely on the GPU of the video card)
– Better (oversampled in software before doing GPU anti-aliasing)
– Best (oversampled even more…)The higher levels of anti-aliasing do take longer to export than the lower levels but overall it should still seem quite fast for a 3D effect (compared to renders from a 3D modeling program for example). Depending on the kind of effect being done, lower levels of anti-aliasing can be sufficient. For filtering and compositing fullscreen video the Basic setting will look as good as any of the others. For 3D compositions with objects transformed in 3D space with lots of high contrast edges, higher levels of anti-aliasing will give smoother edges to the 3D shapes. BLUE defaults to using “Better” Final Quality. You might try to lower it to “Good” to see if that gives acceptable results with better export speeds.
Other things which can take a bit longer to export (compared to other features in BLUE) are motion blur and cast shadows.
You mentioned that you were exporting sequential still graphics. While I wouldn’t expect that to be any slower than other formats, you may want to try exporting an AVI file instead – to see if that is any faster if you are getting abnormally slow exports.
Dirk
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OK – good to hear you have the 2.5.1 installer – sorry you had a bad first experience with it – you shouldn’t get any kind of unsupported warnings as long as your video card and driver meet the requirements as listed on this page ;
https://www.borisfx.com/product/blue/requirements.php
when BLUE is launched, if you open the Preferences Panel and go to the Preview tab, you should see a “Test OpenGL Hardware” button. If you hit this button BLUE will open a window displaying the hardware and driver info as recognized by the software, and there should be an option to copy that info to the clipboard for pasting into a text document like an email message (or the web form for posting a message to this forum). Maybe by seeing that info I’d have an idea as to what’s going on with your system.
In your original post you wrote that you had already uninstalled, but if you review the system requirements and confirm that you have a card and driver that should be supported and then re-install BLUE – maybe you could post the BLUE OGL Hardware test info and I could try to help you resolve the problem. I have my Creative Cow prefs set to automatically email me when posts are made on this thread so I will see it whenever you get to it.
Dirk
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If you’re on the latest approved GeForce driver (which I think you are) the driver situation should be fine. Does the crash seem to be specific to using the Library Browser ? If so, is it specific to browsing certain effects ?
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Christopher Wright wrote;
“I tried Boris Blue on both laptop and desktop Vista systems with supposedly “approved” video cards, and got the “not supported” warning on both installs.”when did you download and try BLUE on VISTA ? FWIW, the only build of BLUE approved for VISTA (the BLUE 2.5.1 update) was posted on borisfx.com on July 30th (less than 2 weeks ago) – any installer previous to that would not have claimed VISTA support and indeed would give a “not supported” warning on launch.