[James Huenergardt]

Thanks for the great input Eric, much appreciated.

I’m currently using a couple of SSD drives to work from for my mograph projects. One for cache, one for projects, etc.

I’ll probably add an SSD drive for cache, but I can do that myself and don’t need the system integrator to do that for me.

The bare Sata drives are mostly for backup and larger editing projects.

I normally keep two drives and ‘mirror’ them with Synchronize Pro and that works really well.

Just curious if anyone can take a gander at how much faster this spec machine would be over my MacPro 2008 with dual quad core 3GHz cpu’s and 16gb of RAM and a Quadro 4000 Mac.

I’m hoping it would be at least twice as fast.

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[James Huenergardt]

Thanks,

Yeah, 1080P stuff. Seems like clients are asking for that more and more. Although I still do a fair bit of 720P stuff.

For storage, I use a StarTech USB 3.0 drive dock and bare drives. That way, I just pick up a drive and go on the road, which I end up doing a lot of.

So, the GTX-780 is faster. I was looking at the amount of RAM, but maybe 3GB is enough.

Also doing a bit of Element 3D as well as Cinema 4D.

I’m wanting something that will give me the fastest RAM previews so my creative flow isn’t waiting around as much.

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[James Huenergardt]

OK, so I figured out my issue. It has to do with the Mesh Subdivision U and V. What’s crazy is that I tried that, but didn’t move it far enough to see a difference so I thought it wasn’t helping.

Now my mesh is great.

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[James Huenergardt]

Hey Walter,

Thanks so much for the info.

I do a lot of After Effects work and am getting into Cinema 4D. I’m preferring C4D over Lightwave for motion graphics work, especially with Cineware.

[Walter Soyka] I use MacDrive on my PCs, and I use Tuxera NTFS on my Macs. This way, I don’t have to care what kind of drive I’m plugging into what computer — any computer in my little shop can read any disk that comes through the door.

Do you just use these as a copy mechanism, or do you actually edit off these?

I do more than just motion graphics. I do some multi-camera editing in CC as well as some promo/docu editing as well.

I work off of bare drives and use drive docks as I’m on the road a bit and work off my MBP.

I use a Thunderbolt drive dock from Seagate for my bare drive and use an SSD via Thunderbolt for my RAM cache.

When I get back to my office, I put the bare drive and the SSD in my eSata dock and work off them.

I’d just hate to have to purchase all my plug-ins again for Windows. That could add a lot.

Performance wise, I hear that a stripped down Windows Server machine can blow away the Mac. And there’s more flexibility to configure and choose.

Difficult decisions for sure.

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[James Huenergardt]

I use Syntheyes.

Here’s the biggest difference with the AE tracker.

You can’t mask out actors or anything that’s moving which will mess up your track using the AE tracker.

The AE tracker is good for what it does. Allow you to do simple tracks without any talent or moving objects.

You can’t do a ‘supervised’ track with the AE tracker.

If all you’re wanting to do is add some text to a scene, it can work, but for green screen tracking and other more specific jobs, the AE tracker isn’t going to cut it.

Syntheyes on the other hand is a professional quality tracker with more features than I know what to do with.

It’s reasonably priced too.

Hope this helps.

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[James Huenergardt]

OK, just had a conversation with MAXON and it appears this bug has been fixed in AE 12.1. I was running 12.0.

Once I installed the update, it fixed the issue.

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[James Huenergardt]

I kindly ‘disagree’ on me not losing a frame.
When I go to the end of the C4D project in my COMP, the last frame is NOT there. In C4D it is there, but in AE it’s NOT there at all, it’s missing. As in visually not there.

I’m not sure I understand, but the C4D project is using the exact same TGA sequence as the AE project, so the number of frames should be exactly the same. In C4D, it is the same, but when I bring the project over via Cineware into AE, it loses the last frame.

You’ll notice that the C4D project is only 4:18 while the TGA sequence is 4:19. A missing frame.

What am I still missing here?

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[James Huenergardt]

It’s VERY easy to reproduce.

All you need is an image sequence.
In C4D, make a background object, and then create a material that uses the image sequence and apply it to the background object.

Next, go into AE and import the image sequence.
Make sure it’s the same frame rate as the C4D file (mine is 24fps)
Put that in a comp.
Next, import the C4D project into AE and put that in the comp.

You’ll see the C4D file is 1 frame short.

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[James Huenergardt]

Walter, thanks.

I wasn’t aware of that setting.
In AE, it must reference the ‘render’ FPS and not the project FPS as it said 24 fps in AE.

That’s ‘almost’ fixed the issues I’ve been having.

OK, so my C4D project is 72 frames long.
It says so in the Project settings.

Also, when I bring it into AE, in the Project info detail (at the top of the project panel) it says 72 frames or 3-seconds.

However, when I bring it into a COMP, it goes down to 71 frames.

This is an issue I’ve been having because I’m doing some match moving with an image sequence. I can bring it into C4D and all the frames are there. However, when I eventually bring it into AE and into a COMP, it’s missing the last frame.

Any idea?

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[James Huenergardt]

Nope. They are exactly the same at 24fps. Try it.

I’ve done it on two different computers now.

There is a bug here.

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