[Dylan Hargreaves]

Hi Dave,

Yes, but only yesterday which was after experiencing the issue.

As an update, I’ve tried switching the renderer from Classic 3D to Ray-traced, and have switched the output codec to GoPro Cineform YUV 10-Bit (from ProRes422).

Render time has now dropped to under 3 hours and it seems to be behaving. RAM usage also at 79%. Still a bit slower than it seemed before, but that could be due a feathered mask over a solid to blend some edges perhaps?

Would be interested to hear your thoughts!

[Dylan Hargreaves]

Thanks Walter – good to know for next time!

Ended up going for quite a radical technique:

1. Went to pet store

2. Purchased goldfish & tank

3. Shot goldfish against black background

4. Voila

And now my kids have a fish!

[Dylan Hargreaves]

Jorge,

I’m not concerned about competition. I’ve been in business for 7 years and things have never been better. I also appreciate and value my peers in the production industry for sharing their knowledge and insight in helping their fellow professionals do better. This is not about giving away trade secrets, this is about us all, as an industry providing a better service to our clients, and that’s an environment from which we all benefit. Apart from the hacks who think they can spin a quick buck and soon learn a painful lesson.

I have no ill-feeling towards you as a ‘competitor’. I just find your original approach to be somewhat insulting. What does it matter anyway what other people are charging? There is no ‘going rate’ for a video. Your pricing has to accurately reflect your cost of doing business, and your cost of doing business may be completely different to the next guy’s.

Video production is not just about making pretty pictures. For most of the people here it’s a livelihood and you don’t seem to either respect or understand that.

D

[Dylan Hargreaves]

Hi Jorge,

Sorry, but your question validates everything the OP is complaining about! You don’t seem to know the value of your own work and so you want to find a shorcut to asking professionals what they would charge.

Well sorry bud, I ain’t saying. But feel free to carry on bankrupting yourself by buying all that expensive kit and low-balling yourself out of house and home. Clients will snap that up all day.

Meanwhile, I will carry on charging what I consider to be a fair price for my work that keeps me in business and means I can provide my clients with the service they deserve.

Hasta La Vista.

[Dylan Hargreaves]

Hi Andy thanks for helping out!

I’m on a Mac, working on an internally raided second drive. Premiere is left open while AME does its thing and I’m usually exporting to an H.264 preset -either Vimeo or Youtube.

It’s happened several times – always at the third clip so there’s nothing special about it, and they export at the second attempt. The issue also does not arise upon restarting the queue.

The strange thing is, neither AME nor Premiere have crashed, there’s just some kind of scripting error creeping in that’s preventing the third clip from mounting, but God knows what or why!

[Dylan Hargreaves]

Thanks John, wow, they have loads!

[Dylan Hargreaves]

Gents and scholars, all. Thanks guys!

[Dylan Hargreaves]

So perhaps something like this? https://g-technology.com/products/g-raid

Here’s where I get a bit sketchy… So I assign one of the drives in the Raid to store the media cache etc, then Premiere processes everything using all the drives in the array?

Considering the 4TB version costs $400, that’s incredible!

[Dylan Hargreaves]

Thanks Tom,

That makes total sense. now I understand!

Cheers!

[Dylan Hargreaves]

You, sir, are a genius.

That’s exactly what the problem was. I wasn’t sure if the syndicators would be mac compatible so I formatted the drive to FAT32. That you surmised this from my post is nothing short of psychic. Thanks Angelo!