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Jeff Brewer
September 15, 2009 at 9:36 pm in reply to: Global Illumination without shadows

Thanks for the reply. I did not use your method as I did not receive this before I found a solution. My solution was to put a composite tag on the Floor, which is also my background, and check Compositing Background. This knocked out the shadows while maintaining the reflection and color of my floor. Thanks for the input and I will look into 11.5 as it has a lot of great new features.
Jeff Brewer
May 20, 2009 at 9:14 pm in reply to: No Video in viewer when scrubbing timeline

Currently using the internal drive as a program specific drive and an external raid 0 drive is my storage space for scratch and render.
Jeff Brewer
May 20, 2009 at 7:24 pm in reply to: No Video in viewer when scrubbing timeline

I’m sorry I meant the canvas sometimes holds on a single frame. My canvas is to the right of my viewer on the same iMac monitor and when I scrub the timeline where my sequence/comp is at with the playhead I often get these freezes on one single frame. Hope that made it a bit clearer, thanks for your help.
Jeff Brewer
May 12, 2009 at 5:04 pm in reply to: FCP to Shake help

Hey Rafael,

Yea I actually went a different route because I had no clue about the shotty job of deinterlacing FCP does. I instead went to compressor to deinterlace using the custom preset setup and sent the clip to FCP where I used Neat Video plugin to remove the noise. Highly recommend this plugin for anyone with unwanted grain or noise. After that I exported using current settings and created it as a self contained movie because the rendering was 8 hours I would rather not do again. Now I have loaded up the exported video onto a new sequence and I am sending it to shake for smoothcam.

Good luck and thanks.
Jeff Brewer
April 27, 2009 at 12:47 am in reply to: External drive for iMac on a budget

Ok, so I was searching through the posts and it appears a ProRes import would work out better in the long run. If this is correct then I would still need to probably connect up a FW 800 raid array. So I guess the question left is, Raid 5 or Raid 0 on this budget. And would having my render scratch set to another drive be beneficial or should it also be set to the raid drive?

Thanks for the help and quick replies.
Jeff Brewer
April 27, 2009 at 12:20 am in reply to: External drive for iMac on a budget

Ah sorry bout that, it would be HDV.
Jeff Brewer
April 26, 2009 at 11:39 pm in reply to: External drive for iMac on a budget

Currently shooting in 1080i60 and would also prefer something that will work well with 3D rendering in programs like Cinema 4D and After Effects, even those are not the main discussion of this board.