[Ian Tomey]

Those samples are at full resolution, at 50% its even worse!

yep i tried nudging the z’s and it did work, the only trouble is due to the angle that they are in and the angle of the light shadow, they then looked out of line with each other (4 outer slices in that image)

i’m going to try with nested comps with the shape layers in – i did one as a test and it worked out fine, though was impossible to precomp them all properly. it only allowed me to put everthing in the child comp, (because the layer “has no source”?) not the parent, which broke all the parenting and would require the whole thing being redone.

[Ian Tomey]

Thanks, I’ve tried 8/16/32 forgot to mention that

I’m not sure what you meant by transcoding the footage – they are just shape layers. and even reducing the resolution by 50% actually makes the problem worse.

I’m wondering if its a shape layer issue as they seem to be treated like a solid with a mask applied – perhaps the 3d engine is calculating the full size of the “solid” and getting confused. Like I said i’ve had the same kind of trouble with overlapping footage on the same z plane before.

hopefully later on today i’ll try something with nested comps instead of shape layers – i cant just precompose everything because all the attributes go in the child comp and it throws everything off.

Ian

[Ian Tomey]

this morning just found something out… if i right click the audio files in the bin and replace footage, select the same file again, magically all the clips of that name reappear with waveform info and things play.

and that propagates through a save/quit/reload cycle. hopefully this will enable me to finish off what I am doing ok, but never again. Going to explore alternative routes. The last machine I built was to the efi-x HCL so thinking of going over to FCP.

[Ian Tomey]

whoops forgot to mention. CS4 on Vista 64

[Ian Tomey]

thanks for that, yeah it seems to be fixed at the moment. I’ll keep that in mind though if I get that issue again.

Cheers
Ian

[Ian Tomey]

Well I don’t know what I’ve done but this problem has now gone away. I solo’d the affected layers and it didn’t show the problem. Un-solo’d and the problem had gone. nothing else had changed.

btw unless I didn’t make it clear – none of the layers were intersecting – they are all oriented along the x plane

[Ian Tomey]

ok, this is getting confusing.

If I create a new project and put in one of the videos I’m having trouble with – no problems. Open the older project with the same file, double click that video to show in the source monitor – it crashes.

start new project, open that video again – fine. Import the older project, double click the same video file in the imported project – crash.

start new project, open that video again – fine. Import the older project, right-click and make offline video in imported project. Link to media by selecting the file again. double click. It doesn’t crash, but it only shows the audio

I can only conclude there must be something being saved with the project that is causing the problem.

[Ian Tomey]

I think at this time it’s going to take more time to do that than flatten the machine.

Just doing some testing here, I can drop WMVs and Quicktime files onto the timeline ok.

Over the past few weeks i’ve been delving into writing code for DirectShow. Wow it’s quite scarey with all the filters having their own tussle to get in your filter graph. I’m surprised anything works!

[Ian Tomey]

ahh thats how you do it… been dragging the boxes around. I’m definately not with it today.

Cheers
Ian

[Ian Tomey]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

That’s kind of what I’m doing, but I can’t move the track point out of the footage to maintain the perspective.