[Jimmy Brunger]

If you’re doing much intensive rotoscoping it might be worth you looking at Motor or Mocha from Imagineer Systems – which use a unique tracker to help you roto. There was a freelancer 90% deal on the software earlier this month, but might be worth checking to see if they’ll still honour it? A decent GFX card will help with interactivity in these apps if you’re using 1080+ plates, but a 5600 is still overkill. Get an FX1500 maybe if you can afford it and if you’re doing alot of 3D work, otherwise use Win XP64 or Vista64 or OSX and fill up with RAM. Also, if you buy Nucleo (or use AE CS3) you can render alot faster if you have 1-2GB RAM per core.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi Brendan,

A beefy GFX card really won’t help you much in AE I’m afraid. Open GL previews are usually not to be trusted for accuracy either. I may be wrong, but AFAIK it is the procs & RAM (and fast RAID drives to a point) that gives you the previews, not the GFX card. If you are working with lots of 3D lights, etc then OpenGL may give you fast response with certain cards, but not for running streams of video.

I’m not sure what you plan to do in AE, but if it’s just running several streams at once (eg: Picture in Picture or similar) then use something like Premiere or Final Cut Pro and make sure you have fast striped drives and at least 4 procs for full 1080 HD. There are hardware accelerated products out there, most notably ‘Axio HD’ by Matrox which runs with Premiere – that will give you more RT HD streams than most other edit systems on the market, but it’s not cheap.

Those big Quadro cards are mainly useful for 3D apps and colour correction systems like Assimilate Scratch or similar, or as part of a Smoke/Flame system. After Effects really doesn’t take advantage of them at all.

Depends what you are wanting to do, as to what system/software you should be using?

Hope some of that helps.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Yep, exactly same screen as in the Apple’s but alot cheaper and with extra inputs/outputs.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

OK….I’ll send this thread link to that email address if that helps.

Basically I can’t get a stable system with anything past DL 6.4 for Windows 32 and QT 7.1.3. I find this staggering.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Nah, the masks were on the big solid itself..

I sorted it by restarting AE and then hitting preview again – worked this time..Odd!?!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

At last…thank you.

If you feel like chiming one of my previous threads is below…

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/124/867382

Thanks.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

The Rolands weren’t much more than the Behringers when I last checked…something like

[Jimmy Brunger]

I use Roland DS-5 digital monitors via SPDIF with my Decklink Pro and they work a dream. Not sure about SPDIF outputs on Extreme cards, but the DS-5’s have a tonnes of outputs both digital and analogue, so would be worth looking into I reckon.

Good luck and let me know how you get on with your monitoring on the extreme…I was going to purchase a HD Extreme and was going to use the same monitors, but not if it’s ‘choppy’!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Thanks Steve, exactly what I wanted to know!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

It takes a whole GIG!!? Blimey. Glad my Decklink is not PCIe aswell then..otherwise that’d zap even more!

Does anyone know of another suitable mobo that doesn’t have this problem I could go for?

It needs to support:-

DDR400 RAM
Socket 939 Athlon 64 X2 FX 4200+ proc
NVidia GeForce 7900GS PCIe gfx card

Thanks guys.

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