[Greg Beckt]

I haven’t had the “sync” issue but I just finished a project that was a mix of 10bit HD and SD images and the performance of RAM previews are definitely taking a hit with the AJA preview on.

I went thru several tests of adjusting RAM amount, disk cache, purging, reboots…then I finally turned the AJA card off and the performance and stability definitely increased.

I do about 80% of my work in AE, so this is a pretty big issue for me.

I’d be curious to hear of any other evaluations of RAM Previews with the AJA card as well.

[Greg Beckt]

This happened to me as well. I believe it’s a QT issue.

I changed my project to AVI and everything was back to normal.

Greg

[Greg Beckt]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for posting this!

I was able to bring my RAM Preview back up by adjusting some of the preview settings and a couple reboots in between but your solution sounds like it addresses the root of the problem.

Thanks again

[Greg Beckt]

This problem has come up for me again today and I havne’t found anyway to alleviate it…purge, reboot, settings, etc.

If anyone finds a solution…please post!

[Greg Beckt]

Try not precomping the Zaxwerks layers. I believe there’s some issues trying to precomp those.

If so, maybe there’s a workaround to using your 3D layer.

[Greg Beckt]

Yeah, this is definitely a bug. I’ve had it come up twice now.

The first time I was able to “reset” this by opening the time controls window and clicking on the Ram Preview button…the 0 button then started functioning normally.

The second time this didn’t work…so I went thru a variety of other preferences/settings and selected Enable Open GL…this worked.

Strange

[Greg Beckt]

I’m in a similar situation today.

Can the AJA card edit in 486 widescreen? I have been given a 486 widescreen file and when setting up a project there’s no 1.2 pixel selection for SD486. It will display thru the card correctly but will never adjust on the desktop/sequence.

Anyone use 486 widescreen and have some tips/insight?

[Greg Beckt]

It’s always hard to tell with Adobe. They tend to highlight a few items with the “launch” and then you find out they fixed or added a few items when you install it. Often times those fixes are more important to many of us than the “new features”.

Time Remapping: Finally!…I’ll second that. I’ve been pushing for this since 1.0. Watching the webcast, it was a bit funny when they demo’d this…I think people felt compelled to give a courtesy clap when they were probably thinking, “WTF…the competition has had this for 5 years”.

Media Management: It looks like there may be some strides here, but all they spoke about was having multiple project windows open. What about the ability to batch capture an off-line sequence (without using the consolidate workaround)…and importing bins to other projects.

FX Presets: Once again, a bit hard to tell what functions they’ve added but hopefully there’s more to be said here. For example, multiple FX saved as one Preset…and I’d like to see these as buttons in their own small window where you could apply them to multiple clips at once (avoiding drag and drop or copy and paste). Being able to replace clips and have the FX stay in place like AE is great though…just hope there’s a keyboard shortcut for this versus how they demo’d it.

Multiple user Keyboard settings is great.

Integration: Having tighter integration with PSHOP and AE is great. Last year’s addition of Dynamic Link wasn’t quite compelling enough for me to use it, considering it unrendered other comps (hope that is fixed), and the way you initiated linked comps. Copy and paste seems a bit more intuitive since you’d probaly decide to initiate an AE comp from stacked layers already in your PPro sequence.

Encore Integration and BluRay: Great stuff here!

All in all, I hope there’s a little more to the story (small features). Adobe sometimes seems to be focused on far reaching items (like previewing how your video will look on a particular NOKIA phone) instead of making a more efficient editor for those coming over from Avid, FCP or *edit.

[Greg Beckt]

I use this workflow quite a bit…importing an entire PPro project into AE, then color correcting, compositing, and CG as necessary. I find that AE is faster and more powerful for this than PPro. Most people will however just create AE composites in certain sections of their PPro timeline to avoid the scenario you’re describing.

When finishing an entire piece in AE, I defiintely stress to my clients how important the “sign-off” is on that PPro “offline” and charge accordingly if changes need to be made after that is originally signed off on.

Assuming you’re not looking at wholesale changes, you could make a copy of the timeline in PPro, make your editorial changes, do a “save as” and then import that project into the same AE project…copy and paste your f/x to the changed areas of the new sequence and then just render out the changed areas to separate files…match them in back in PPro.

Not a perfect workflow, but it does have its advantages.

Expecting dynamic link to work in the other direction would definitely open up a lot more issues as to how the sequence and corresponding layers are altered.

[Greg Beckt]

You might try nesting your comp and then burning your DVD from the new comp. I’ve had this happen on occasion and that workaround has done the trick.

Greg