[Henry Cow]

Thanks for all the replies, and sorry I havent contributed again sooner.

Regarding all the variables they could be setting something wrong that I just cannot see when trying to resolve the issues, Its often impossible to pick apart a project thats perhaps months from the project origin. I have considered pretty much all the suggestions, most have been looked into before.

The problem is it is arbitrary, hard to spot.

Regarding FCPs scaling algorythms, there is a chance that this has something to do with it, especially if it caches certain render files with errors. I cant stand the way FCP fails to interpret footage, or does it with its idiosyncrasies. And it irritates me that it will distort at will.

One thing I have been doing is exporting the file to ProRes422 and bringing that file into the sequence, it has often removed the problem.

One question, here, what would people suggest as the best codec going from AE to editing in FCP? I generally use ProRes, but unfortunately not all the students work from inside the university, not all having the most ‘respectable’ installs. I would prefer that this not be the case but…

Regarding the point of fail them if they cant submit properly. As far as I know, they are all invited to attend AE workshops but I dont know if that trainer gives them what they need. That said there is a culture of format ignorance, I know as I instruct, but things still appear with wrong settings, odd frame sizes, wrong codecs etc. Im not the exam board, Im just around to resolve issues when they arise. Yes it is frustrating, yes they will learn the hard way if they ever want to work.

Cheers, Hen.

[Henry Cow]

Dan, yes, that does it.
Many thanks for your input.
H

[Henry Cow]

Thanks David.
Can I ask you how responsive the machine feels with ‘heavy’ usage… I mean particles and replicators. If you really push motion, does the machine stall a lot?
And how are the RAM preview times? I have never been on a mac that this wasnt needed to get a feel for timing.

[Henry Cow]

oops, sorry, I meant Motion 3…

[Henry Cow]

Billy
Thanks for your reply, and Ill try that as soon as I can to see what happens.

There is one potential problem I think Im going to have with that though. This window arrangement is to be included in a build sent out by Radmind (a file system server), and as such we have pin files to specific places knowing that final cut will know where to look without relying on single user preferences.
Do you or anyone know where a ‘correct and definitely the right place for final cut to always load it with clean preferences’ place might be?

Best
Hen

[Henry Cow]

…I had the wrong preset turned on.

Sorry for time wasting…

Best

Hen

[Henry Cow]

Shane
Thanks for clearing that up for me – its as I thought.
Best regards
Hen

PS do you know what happenes when you stick a HDV tape in a DV deck and try and capture, out if interest…?

[Henry Cow]

Thanks for that. my non web head said that ‘active’ was something like…
if I have a ccs where ‘active’ changed the state if the page (say in an iframe) loaded was the same address as the link from the text…
obviously not.
So, IS there a way to have this happen… javascript? and if so, what solution should I be searching for, ie what is this function called by web designers…

thanks all in advance.
H

[Henry Cow]

Thanks Andy

I was just going to pass this off as a bug somewhere, perhaps re-install software, but after what you mentioned I will take this further and perhaps suggest she takes it back. Will also look at the apple site as well.

Regards

H

[Henry Cow]

Thanks for those screengrabs, and letting me know about your experience.

But apparently My Mums strange screen just appears after waking from sleep, and its over in a flash.
The only thing I could think of was the microsoft database daemon thats running calendar/entourage in the background intefering from waking from sleep momenterly?

Could there be anything else??

Best

Hen.