[Hope Holmesby]

If anyone still reading this thread….

Use: Animation/Recent Animation presets:

One thing found very helpful, as was said, make own preset starting with the preset of FadeInandOut Frames that is in the ‘preset’ folder, and name it clearly, like ‘FadeInOut30’ or whatever.

Then each time its needed, go to animation/recent animation presets
and it will be in the list, easy to grab.

Use this technique for all the things always using.

Works much faster than going to the preset list.

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[Hope Holmesby]

Thanks so much Dan and all of you. It is really so very kind of you all to view that movie and give all this info.

What a great group of fellows you are. Really really appreciate your kind concern and expertise. What a marvelous recourse you all are.

Appreicate so much all this input.

Am gathering info for my presentation to the dept.
Lots and lots and lots of thanks…
Very Warmly,
Hope

Now I have to think which 3D program to get. We did have a very old version of Zaxwerks…

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Dear Kevin,

Hi again….thanks for all the recent info to all my posts….lol

Wow, you really know your stuff!

Yes, I have multiprocessing on with my two cores. Good to know what it is doing…thanks.

Will read and study all you say.

Can hardly wait to read it all…You are the best.

Thanks so much.
Warmly,
Hope

Again thanks so very much for explaining all this. Am really exicted to read on…

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Also, if u can bear it, do you think you could do an animation in Standard Definition video like this on an imac 17 w 16 gb or would u need a 12 core:

https://www.apple.com/the-beatles/

click on the first lower icon/link ‘beatles thru the years’

What do you think?

Thanks again.
Warmly,
Hope

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Dear Walter,

Thanks for taking the time to write this. Really appreciate you taking the time to do and read and reply…

This is encouraging.

Warmly,
Hope

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Dear Kevin,

I am really touched.

You are so sweet to take your precious time and give all this very detailed, crystal clear info. I really so very much appreciate.

So, yes, it looks like it may be even close to 4x faster than my current machine.

Thanks again for your unbounded thinking and exacting remarks.

Amazing….

Warmly,
Hope

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Dear Kevin,

So sweet of you to answer so fast. This sounds very clever and intelligent. Tried it just now.

Just rendered a min. of 2 different animations, and the first one used, of 4GB of ram, about 2.5GB and second one only about 500MB of ram used.

The cpu activity seems to be quite full on both.

Want it to run faster and use all the ram to do so.

In the memory and cache preferences it reads:
maximum memory usage 120% = 3 GB…..the thing is there is 4 GB on cpu, so is this right?

Maximum RAM Cache Size 60% = 1.8.GB

What do you think?

Just have external drives.

They go to sleep and as I have all my project files on them, then there is a many second delay when accessing anything. Was hoping there was someway to get rid of this delay.

Have read that for AE to run fastest, need to have all files on the main HD.

So, dear Kevin, et al what do you think of all this?

Thanks so much for everyone’s very kind help.

Warmly,
Hope

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Dear Great Experts,

Thanks so very much for you fast and clear input. Really appreciate you taking the time to respond and give all this info. You’re the best.

BTW, all your credentials are very impressive.

Lots of love to you all,
Hope

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Really beautiful….beautiful….

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Hi there Eric,

Did you ever figure out how to do the spiral galaxy effect?

Would love to know too.

Hope

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