Jack Marck
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[Shane Ross] “Installing the OS from a DISK IMAGE is actually fine”
Our laptop was setup using an image from a stable edit station in our bay. The image they used for that included FCS 2 and CS 3. No stability/playback issues.
The “layered install” would make sense, I didn’t think of that. I’ve run into similar issues with ProTools.
[David Roth Weiss] “Pretty sure is not good enough in this case Jack.”
Their standard process here is to wipe, then image. Sorry, I shouldn’t have sounded so vague.
Kinda sounds like our next step is to format the drive and start over again.
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I’m pretty sure he wiped the drive before imaging it. The image that they use is from a clean, fresh install of Snow Leopard.
I started off working on PC’s years ago (not video related) and I know on those you can’t just go changing OS’s without considering the hardware configuration. Are macs that way too? I ask this because her computer was running an older version, either 10.5 or 10.6, she doesn’t remember.
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I was told by our IT guy that the computer was rebuilt with an image rather than from scratch. Final Cut Studio was a from-scratch install that apparently failed 3 times before they tried installing it (successfully) one component at a time. You’d think 3 unsuccessful install attempts would have been a clue that something wasn’t right…
I didn’t know that the machine was imaged, I’m inclined to think that could be the problem. I’ll see if I can get them to start over.
Out of my own technical curiosity, why would an image of a working hard-drive cause these sorts of issues?
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This circle segments rotate around the center of the reticle so their anchor points have to stay where they are unless I setup the rotation wrong…I used the “spin” behavior.
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I edited the post. It was originally a solution but I realized that I had turned off the motion tracker, so the problem wasn’t really solved. whoops.
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I thought that if I’m compressing directly from DVCPRO-HD to PAL that I wouldn’t need to change standards. Is that mostly just to conform to 25fps?
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Beautiful! Thank you so much!
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Right but only portions of the picture “animate”. In the one I’m thinking of, the entire picture is just a still except the ends of the model’s hair which slowly start moving before the rest of the image starts moving. I don’t doubt what you said but I’m wondering how the effect itself is composited.
Also, when I say “animate” I mean it starts moving, not that it is computer-generated or illustrated.
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This is great info, thanks!
If we crawled on our knees and begged, we MIGHT be able to get the bean counters to spring for a SAN system, but it sounds like that money would be better spent on a couple of new puters.
Is there a good book or website where I can learn the in’s and out’s of these systems from a technical standpoint? I’m pretty confident in my editing skills but in the words of the immortal Oddball “I just drive ’em man, I don’t know what makes ’em work” We don’t currently have a Moriarti either, would be a good position for me to take some initiative on.