[Jake Hawkes]

Changing from 8bit to 10bit is only going to imporve image quality as it pertains to future assets and effects. It is my understanding that you will not have ANY benfit in the quality of the actual video being transcoded to 10bit.

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[Jake Hawkes]

Sheesh,

Adobe doesn’t even use the term timcode. I haven’t seen the bin column that represents the timecode, more searching.

Thanks for the heads up, and I like the clock idea you mentioned.

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[Jake Hawkes]

Thanks…soooo much!!!

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[Jake Hawkes]

There are no effects in the drop down. Can you please tell me where you Soundbooth effects live…in the directory, maybe mine are in the wrong place.

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Soundbooth CS3\Plug-ins\Common\VSTPlugins

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Soundbooth Scores

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Adobe\Soundbooth\1.0\EffectPresets

[Jake Hawkes]

Edited Responce:

Them problem is the way the alpha channel is being handled.

Consider placing a solid background layer and do a quick render in AE. Is the shadow there? If not then determine if you used blur, glow, or drop shadow on any layers which could have projected down to the background. If not then consider placing a mask over the layers so that there is no bleeding form your poloroid graphic…

Added to responce…
I looked at it again and you also have a purple X that shows at the end of your animation for one frame. I would seriously consider outputting the animation to a tiff sequence, and then bring it into Flash and output the SWF from there. If you don’t have Flash consider the suggestion about masking the poloroid and placing a solid under the whole comp, I would also make sure that your timeline sequence is one frame longer than your project properties length. This should remove the purple X at the end of the animation.

Sorry I don’t know the specific problem.

[Jake Hawkes]

Consider placing a solid background layer and do a quick render in AE. Is the shadow there? If not then determine if you used blur, glow, or drop shadow on any layers which could have projected down to the background. If not then consider placing a mask over the layers so that there is no bleeding form your poloroid graphic…

Sorry I don’t know the specific problem.

[Jake Hawkes]

Thank you very much Mike, It was one of those moments where I read something and it started a little thread of ideas in my mind that three generations later looked like a nuclear reaction…

I will respond back if my other posts have any different concusions on fonts/plug-in’s

[Jake Hawkes]

I just thought that I would mention I misquoted you when I brought up the Xserve, sorry I meant XRaid. I also thought I would convey that I have a computer science degree from Boise State University (CDW Crack). I develop applications and we don’t push the envelope with hardware at all, in fact the goal is often to make more run on less. I have set up Linux, Windows, and one Apple Server. I have built apps on Cold Fusion, Apache, Java, .NET and Peoplesoft. I have studied at corporate headquarters server rooms at Albertsons and Boise Cascade. They don’t let you in unless you have something to offer.

I thought it would be a fun project to build a multi platform HD editing bay in my spare time. I was doing this for fun here as I love the COW. I was hoping and have recieved some really good advice. It also motivated me to call a VAR. However, You must have more serious goals with your efforts here, and that is too bad.

So I guess what I am saying is that in your posts you have offended me (servers are almost always used to connect clients to SAN’s, simply putting the drives in the server is not that bad of an idea, Frankenstein) I will never attempt to chat with you again because you respond like a jerk, and some where between good advice and your antagonistic comments I loose the point.

[Jake Hawkes]

To Mr. Bernstein,

Q: How exactly do you think every SAN out there is connecting drives to the FSB?
A: Controller Card, I personally feel SATA and SATA II enhancments on the origianl spec are the value performers that SCSI never has been able to deliver. Unless you like paying $3 to $10 per Gig.

I was not suggesting you only use a Sonnet but the controller is a very key piece of the puzzle if your suggesting using a data server. What I am suggesting is you could purchase a typical Xeon or P4 server with Linux or what ever server software you fancy. Add in controller cards Drives and a dual FC controller and your still far less than these proprietary systems. The question was WHY?

So I researched it yesterday and the answer is:
Software configured (This is the biggie)
Compatibility of Components
TerraBlock uses Parallel ATA drives which are very inexpensive
Duplexed and managed FC
RAID configured systems which have managable partitions (not that incredible)
System redundancy built in (also not that amazing)
Advanced Cooling
WARRANTY

However if you think that Xserve is all that pushing around on GB TCP/IP keep using it…I am not suggesting anything, Just looking for answers to my questions. Having read it again can I ask, what was I supposed to learn from your post?

Bang for the buck so far I have been hard pressed to beat Dell for Hardware but they use ATA drives as well. I also like the Snap Servers, oh and the software that was mentioned earlier seems very nice indeed: MetaSAN/LAN.

Just to be clear I do have a limited budget at some level shouldn’t we all?

[Jake Hawkes]

I am right there with you. I have been looking for a opportunity to place a near line storage next to my G5 and PC’s with the option in the future of connecting other clients. The Terrablock server (www.facilistech.net)certainly seems like an ideal solution however here again it would seem that the pricing doesn’t quite shake out. I would really love to hear from facilistech, so I called them. Great responce and information, if your looking give them a call.

Here are some notes:
In a nearline application such as mine a “offline application of storage” the Terrablock is a bit overkill, in that configuring a server with storage is easier, more cost effective, and overall perfect while using compressed or anything but FULL HD or 2K/4K images.
The Terrablock is intended at being used as “online” multi user data streamed with plenty of overhead to prevent data lag on FULL HD or larger RESOLUTION MATERIAL. It has a high level PCI X Bus conneting up to Four dual channel fiber card which can deliver from 120MB up to near 300MB depending on which system you are looking at. The cards provide connection to two clients and the total clients varies per system. The cost of the additional pair of clients is about $1000.00 and extends Two clients per card.

You could connect a infinate amount of clients to the storage for offline through a networked switched architecture. This could provide solutions for proxied or get and put workflow if desired.

They are also provides software for volume managment.

So for the expense you are getting a Fiber connected RAID Array which looks and functions as though it is inside your workstation. It works on one to amny HD streams in real time, and overall is plug and play. Now how much would you pay?