[Jimmy Brunger]

I could be wrong, but I think you’d need XP 64bit to use more than 4GB RAM?…XP32 only sees 4GB for the whole system (less than that if you have PCI-Express) so you probably wont be able to effectively use more than about 3GB to share between the 4 instances of AE. From what Steve Forde of Gridiron has said in the past (do a cow search on PCI black hole and there’s a tonne of stuff about RAM and AE/Nucleo) 3GB shared between 4 proc cores will not be at all effective, you need at least 1GB per core.

Go for XP64 and then fill her up I say!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

CS3 will indeed replicate the functionality of Nucleo standard..but will not have the features of Nucleo Pro (spec render/preview, etc..) For $50 it seems a no-brainer to buy Nucleo if you have a dual core machine, then when you can afford it upgrade to Pro 2 when CS3 comes out!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Thanks for the reply Steven..bum..looks like I’m off back to TMPGEnc then!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Have you got lots of footage?..If so is it on a fast RAID drive? That might help..

Other than that I’d say more processing power maybe, or GFX card upgrade?

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi Gene,

Thanks for your reply…

I got the audio in via emailed 44.1khz WAVs and ripped WAVs off audio CD. I initially let AE convert them to 48khz in the render (it is for broadcast onto Digibeta) but then thought that might be the cause of the problem..so I converted them all to 48khz in Audition and replaced all my assets in AE.

I rendered out of AE uncompressed AVI with 48khz stereo audio and my Premiere project is the same (albeit a BMD project, but all footage is totally uncompressed)

The popping seems to arise on mixdown in Premiere – as when I listen to the timeline with my AE audio on one track and SFX I put on in Premiere on another it sounds fine. When I then mix all the audio down to one stereo channel the problem starts.

Anymore thoughts?

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Gracias Steve. I’ll tell him end of May 😉

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Thanks Joe, but my brain is fried after reading that!?!

I still can’t quite figure out if 17 vertical pixels is the same as 17 TV lines! I fear I may be being incredibly thick here…

Does anyone who knows the $64,000,000 question fancy spelling it out for me?

🙁

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[Jimmy Brunger]

I find it baffling that you still can’t add a solid drop (a fake directional extrusion) in Photoshop. Paintbox Express could do that 15 years ago!

I know you can use Illustrator’s extruder filter but it is very clumsy and obviously not true 3D, but why not add that to PS or something a little simpler? AE does have ways round it like mentioned, but Zaxwerks is so cheap and brilliant for that. your best bet.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

“Sizing boxes” …do you mean boxes with the square handles in the corners and crosshair in the middle? If so that’s VERY odd!

If it’s just a line around each layer, then you could check stuff like – maybe you have a stroke applied to the layer? Or maybe they’re weren’t cutout properly in Photoshop? Open one of the muzzle shots in PS and expand the canvas size and change to a contrasting BG colour and see if it has an edge on it?

Other than that not sure.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

New VERY cheap per-point feathering solution directly in AE just released: https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=105&postid=857647

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