[Eric Fitzgerald]

Thanks for responding, Jonathan.

AFAICT Adobe’s SGIRGB only reads the SGI file format. Unless I’m missing something it does not write SGI files.

I need to write them. The old 3rd party plug did that.

[Eric Fitzgerald]

Ach! Nobody? This one is driving me crazy.

Every time I open an Illustrator eps in Photoshop I have to change CYMK to Grayscale and 72 DPI to 1200 dpi,

In CS2 I used to have those by default in their fields.

Either I don’t remember how to change it or they broke it in CS4.

Making me nuts.

[Eric Fitzgerald]

Hey Dave! How you doing? Good to stumble across you in here.

My problem with AI is that it is a lousy typsetter for massive volumes of type typically found in roll-ups. It is a great vector editor but for typography? Not so much.

Interesting approch using pieces rendered to the same rate of roll. I usually don’t have flexible durations though so the rate must necessarily change. How do you deal with that?

I saw that Brian Williams died. That made me sad. Ever do any Cow PoMo tarot?

Eric Fitzgerald

[Eric Fitzgerald]

WOW! Dave – thank you so much. That is brillant.

[Eric Fitzgerald]

Hi Dave;

I wish I could do 4k all the time. Small type is so resolution dependant. Slight Italic are the worst.

Yes, I have seen frying, among other artifacting. Quite frankly it never occured to me to go to an integer rate on the Y as opposed to a fractional rate. I can see where that would solve that problem. Usually I don’t get the luxury of changing the duration of the roll everytime they change the length. And I would think a single even integer would radically effect the duration on a long roll. Probably not the best policy but I avoid thin serifs and hope for the best with good, oversampled anti-aliasing.

You have given me an idea, though. Might be able to create buffers to absorb changes with spacing and holds on the end. I should hang out here more often.

Eric

[Eric Fitzgerald]

We used to do single AE files but this proved extremely cumbersome both in typesetting and animation.

I do this all the time and we have developed a workflow that works quite well.

Type is set in InDesign on series of legal sized pages that include a 12 field rastarization box that defines the exact different depth of each page. This is easier to checker in PDF format for the clients rather than a continuous roll

The pages are exported to Illustrator, converted to outlines and inverted. (too much toner is wasted in the checkering stage if the files are white on black)

Then they go to Photoshop to be rastarized 10x oversampled and made into TIFFs.

Then the pages are linked to a rolling null in AE. Very easy to make changes in speed and copy that way.

Most of the process can be automated with Actions.

Eric Fitzgerald
Hollywood Title

[Eric Fitzgerald]

Excellent. Thank you so much Mike!

Eric

[Eric Fitzgerald]

Thanks for the response, Kevin. The machine is a 8 core 3ghz Mac Pro. Wow, less available RAM per core?! That sucks. I am also having problems with the Mac detecting my Dell display, everytime I restart the machine it comes up with a wanky aspect ratio – all stretched. If I go into the display control panel and hit detect display it resets the pixel counts to a different setting that is 1:1. Annoying to do *every* time I reboot. I don’t think this problem is related but i don’t know

Sounds like the real solution is more RAM. I will try what you suggested to get this project done. Thanks again,

Eric

[Eric Fitzgerald]

It appears to be fully functional. 30 days is the only restriction I guess.

Eric

[Eric Fitzgerald]

[mind sufficently blown]

Thank you, Mike…

Eric