Erik Lindahl
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A bit tame but might be good. I got confirmation the mask-feature of AE and now PrPro remains the same (everything is baked into the mask, there is no separate tracking data).
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One major problem is AE. As I understand it the entire app runs in basically one thread, so a complex multi-layer, multi-comp project will at some point overwhelm the computer. I’ve seen this far to many times lately. Actually rendering out will be vasty faster than ram-previewing – I think – due to the app doesn’t have to concider GUI-redraws and user interaction calls to the same degree.
Not a fix but an explanation. I do hear Adobe is focusing a lot of performance right now. Maybe NAB will bring something?
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That could be true. But Telestreme does advertise it as their “desktop product”.
That said, Engine is very expensive if you just are looking for ProRes support. The Pro-version + a Mac is virtually the same cost.
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Telestreme Episode Engine has had it for some time.
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As mentioned above I’d do something similar and base it all around something like a picture like this:
https://www.ormsconnect.co.za/2013/07/video-golf-ball-strikes-camera-at-british-open/
Or this:
https://www.myfrienddebbie.com/article_master.php?id=9930548
I’d defiantly do the comp in After Effects or Motion. It would be a headache creating it in FCP given it might be achievable.
The back-plate would have to be treated a lot with blur, chromatic abboration, sclices with various scaling / focus. Not to forget you’d like to simulate the cracked glass in front of this picture, preferable it should also be affected by the picture I tends of light. You might also want to play around with various oddities of light-leaks.
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It really depends. Some renders will be affected more than others. Primarily turning multi-processor rendering off will decrease speed by a lot (of course depending on host system).
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A tip for rendering issues / glitches is to clear all caches before you render. This is done in one of the menus, edit or composition I think. It helps especially when doing a MP-render. A second tip is telling AE to “clear cache” during renders every X frames. This is turned on via a SECRET AE-preference pane.
Last resort is clearing all caches and turning MP-render off.
AE’s new caching system is often good and aggressive but sometimes it screws up. The above has always fixed rendering issues for me at least.
Speaking of the above issue I’d love the option to “clear all caches before composition rendering” in the output module. It would save me some headaches.
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What are you going to run on the machine? You can always upgrade RAM later. Rock with 32GB now for example. For most purposes, 32 GB on the 6-core will be sufficent.
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We primarily do H264 or WMV which either rules Comprssor out or in the past it’s had chockingly worse quality and features sadly.