Jason Boucher
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I like Dave’s answer too, since that’s the world I’m in, but the original question of playing back even one layer in real time does open a pandoras box, does it not?? I’m not a Motion guy but I believe it’s better at this than AE…. Might be wrong tho.
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Ty,
I wanted to let you know that your suggestion yielded some decent results. It still needs some work and might not ever get where I hoped, but it is night and day from where it was.
Thanks for your guidance.
Jason
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Thanks for your welcome and your response Ty. I visited your website and you have some very cool gear in that studio!
I look forward to trying your suggestion and I’ll be sure to report back. If I have time, I’ll clip off a few seconds of the result.
Best,
Jasongreydogcreative.com
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Walter,
Any luck on the compressor issue. We had called Apple about it in the beginning and got the stock “not sure, we’ll check it out” response at first. Then a second call got us to a guy who tested it on all their systems (they apparently have many macs with different versions of FCStudio and QT. They could not duplicate the problem on any but, 6.0.3 and QT 7.3X (I don’t recall at the moment what QT it was).
Anyhoo, when 6.0.4 came out, the issue was resolved. Tech support told us that they’d never know when engineering would get around to fixing it, and we didn’t know 6.0.4 would fix it until we tried it.
That’s our story…. I hope that may help you if you haven’t fixed it yet.
Jason
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I have to agree on the Mac tip. I’ve worked with both PC and Mac through the years and as far as stability goes, Mac wins hands down. I’ve never considered the resale/value retention aspect, but a simple ebay check will prove that.
My original rig was a Mac Dual Core 2.3 G5 with a Kona 3 and 5GB of RAM. I ran AE 6.5, 7.0 and CS3 on it with no problems. Some comps got bogged down, but it was a workhorse.
I’ve recently upgraded to an 8 core MacPro with 16 GB of RAM, same Kona 3 and a 512 GFX card. This machine screams. It renders at least 3x faster than my G5. IT’s running Leopard and I bump all my comps up to 16bit now as my machine can handle the extra depth. Multiprocessor rendering will change your world.
Bottom line is get as much as you can afford. Mac isn’t perfect, but to me it blows away Windows. I had trouble running basic programs with windows at times. But hey, you can’t beat the price. Spend the savings on RAM, RAIDS and tech support.
Good luck!
greydogcreative.com
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Walter,
Have you done the most recent FCS2 Update (6.0.4, I believe)? We had a machine with a compressor issue that was resolved with that latest update. I’m sure all the machines did, but that was the only machine using compressor at the time.
I’ll find out tomorrow exactly what the issue was and post more info if his problem was different than what you are experiencing.
Best,
Jason
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Since this is in an After Effects forum, should we assume you are working in After Effects? If so, real-time playback is not gonna happen anyway. Faster system, faster renders, but most newish laptops and hard-drives should be able to handle most renders. They make take hours, but they’ll get there.
If your talking about Final Cut, the short answer is yes. You should be able to edit. But like Brendan said, we don’t know what you’re running. I cut DVCProHD on my Macbook Pro with external FW800 drives all the time. HDV is a little clunky to edit with, so that may slow you down a bit.
More info on your set up would help us help you out.
greydogcreative.com
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Wow…. I’m shocked that no one has any thoughts. Well the problem persists and I’m forced to find creative ways to hide the shift.
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Good discussion/refresher, but I noticed no one mentioned Keylight in AE. Not sure where your issues with blue/green screen are, but I find Keylight to be the only way to key footage. I have AdvantEdge and FCP keyer and AVID keyer and they’re good, but I think Keylight blows them away. Could a bad keyer be part of the issue?
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Ditto here too…. Although I’m only brave enough to upgrade my laptop. Running AE CS3 with no problems… renders fine.
Not sure if/when I’ll upgrade my actual G5 suite.
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