Jerry Witt
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Six months ago I bought a FirmTek card and two bay enclosure for around $300. (Check out: https://store.yahoo.com/firmtek/sata1ven21.html). I also bought two 250 gig Seagate SATA drives (don’t recall from where). In about half an hour I had the card in the G5, the drives installed in the enclosure and striped together. Since then I’ve been digitizing without barely a care. I was so used to worrying about disk space with my firewire drives. It’s such a luxury to have half a terabyte available. I have been editing quite a bit of 10 bit uncompressed SD stuff on the system and haven’t had a hiccup.
When I finally DO get close to filling these drives up, I’ll just buy a couple more reasonably priced Seagate drives and 2 drive trays for the FirmTek enclosure. For not much more than $300, I’ll have another half a terabyte. SATA rocks!
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You may want to point out to the producer that shooting 60P will be like shooting 60 frames per second on film, not 120 like he originally stated.
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I use RBrowser and love it. The “lite” version does everything I need and it is FREE.
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Right. When you render, set it to “fields”. The next question you should ask them is the frame size and whether they want upper or lower field first.
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I agree with Walter. You always pay a premium for the “top dog” in the computer line. I would look at the previous generation 2.0 or 2.5 G5s and spend the difference on RAM, a large monitor or a SATA array.
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Yes this monitor rocks! I have two and love them.
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So Wayne, let me get this straight. You cannot save. At all? Ever? If you command Q out of AE you don’t have a chance to save?
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I’m having a similar problem.
Although I can save while I work, after I render, my AE menu is grayed out too. If I command-Q out of AE, I can save the project. And when I start it back up, all is well. This is under Tiger with 2 gigs of RAM using AE 6.5.1.
Wayne, are you by any chance running into this problem when you are using After Effects while leaving FCP 5 open? I THINK this is what is causing me my problem.
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Okay, here’s how to do it in AE Professional. (With 3D Invigorator, which I believe comes with it).
Create a bending spline path in Illustrator, but close it, making a shape. In AE create a wide comp with 3 or four thin rectangular solids that wipe on at different times. Bring that comp into your main comp. Add a solid and apply Invigorator to the solid. Select your spline 3D Illustrator object. Apply the wide animated stripe comp as a “layer map” to the sides of the object.
Although the Invigorator slider will only let you extrude to 100, you can manually type in a thicker extrude (try 500) to create a large bending wall. Turn off the animated lines comp in the main comp, but animate the lines as you see fit. You can check the “use comp camera” box in Invigorator to fly around the curves as the lines wipe on.
A little hard to explain, but that should get you started.
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[duffbeer911] “f I get a crazy long render it is normally because I applied a flare or similar effect to a huge solid by accident. Or, using a flare, starglow, shine, whatever, if I blow it right out and am using that as a background to continue into the next shot I exprot a still frame and re-import it.”
You don’t really need to do this. If you have a layer with a complicated animated effect, use the “Toggle Hold Frame” option on the last keyframe. AE is smart enough to know that nothing is changing any longer and will hold that image in memory during a render. This gives you the added advantage of being able to change the value of the keyframe later. It’s a huge timesaver over exporting and importing the still.