[Graham Hutchins]

Yup, Qmaster is set up and I did the “Never copy source to cluster” pref setting after seeing your post on the Apple forums.

I think David might have nailed it though. I haven’t had the chance to do a fresh OS install before upgrading, so that might be the cause of the issue I’m having. I just need to get this latest project knocked out and then I’ll take my half day to backup and wipe my hard drive and do a proper clean install.

Thanks for your response.

-Graham

OSX 10.5.7
AE CS4, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 6 GB RAM

[Graham Hutchins]

Yup, couldn’t agree more.

I hit the wall big time exporting a pretty complex comp out of After Effects about a week ago, but as you’ve noted, and in my experience with the previous version, I wasn’t having this issue.

Perhaps the length of the thing may have something to do with it. Most of the stuff I transcode is usually less than 5 minutes, whereas the project I’m currently working on (color on a feature) has clips in 15-20 minute chunks.

It still feels like even for longer stuff, 3.0 just stayed full tilt the whole render where now, it’s all over the place.

Hmmm.

-Graham

OSX 10.5.6
AE CS4, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 2
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 6 GB RAM

[Graham Hutchins]

I was hoping the same thing, although I don’t have any reason to believe it would. I forgot to mention that I’m also on 10.5.7, if that matters.

Are you experiencing slower render times as well?

-Graham

OSX 10.5.6
AE CS4, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 2
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 6 GB RAM

[Graham Hutchins]

Hey Rafael,

Yup, that’s what needed to happen. I was trying to avoid re-rendering because of the time involved, but I ended up baking a few of the comps to speed things up a bit. For some reason I had it in my head that I was trying to avoid chroma and luma shifting by using BM 10bit, but upon further testing, I was getting no shift using apple 10bit uncomp out of and back into After Effects.

I think I may have read a post from a few years ago recommending BM 10bit. The other thing pushing me toward that was the fact that with BM codecs installed, uncompressed 10 bit isn’t given as an option.

Thank you for your time and you suggestions.

-Graham

OSX 10.5.6
AE CS4, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 2
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 6 GB RAM

[Graham Hutchins]

I’m aware that Blackmagic uses the Apple 10b uncompressed codec and I’ve tried using it already, as stated in my original posting.

When I export the entire sequence as Apple 10b uncompressed, I get luma and chroma shifts. When I set the in and out points somewhere in the sequence, for some reason, it spits out a clip as Blackmagic 10b, with no luma or chroma shift.

Thanks for your response.

-Graham

OSX 10.5.6
AE CS4, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 2
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 6 GB RAM

[Graham Hutchins]

Also, an expression or method to take a row and pull the middle segment back and the rest of the segments in the row bend in to form a curve would work as well.

-Graham

OSX 10.5.6
AE CS4, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 2
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 6 GB RAM

[Graham Hutchins]

Also, an expression or method to take a row and pull the middle segment back and the rest of the segments in the row bend in to form a curve would work as well.

Thanks.

-Graham

OSX 10.5.6
AE CS4, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 2
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 6 GB RAM

[Graham Hutchins]

Nailed it.

I did need to subtract 90 from “amplitude*Math.cos(t*freq*2*Math.PI)/Math.exp(t*decay)” to get the element oriented correctly, but otherwise, spot on.

Many thanks.

-Graham

OSX 10.4.11
AE CS3 and 7.0
FC Studio 2.03
Dual 2.7GB PPC G5, 8 GB RAM