Jimmy Brunger
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What resolution are you working at?
I did a project back at uni that had 100+ layers, many with motion blur on my old G3 iMac with 512MB RAM and it still played ball pretty well. This was at standard def PAL.
Stab in the dark – I’d say it could either be ALOT of mo blurred layers? Or more likely the RAM cache thing mentioned before. If it’s full HDTV res then there’s always proxies? Andrew Kramer’s Videocopilot.com has a good tut on proxies.
Good luck.
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Am I the only one?! 🙁
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Win XP (32-bit) only sees 4GB max. *I think* all 32-bit apps can only see 2GB as standard. There is a 3GB switch you can use to make apps use 3. Don’t think that 5th gig is going to be much use though I’m afraid..I could be wrong! If you’ve got 4 though, you can use 2-3GB for one app and the OS and other open apps will use the rest.
Hope that helps.
Depending on the type of RAM you’ve got I could poss take that 5th gig off your hands?
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That’s odd..I don’t have that option on my version. Not on CS1 or 2. I’m sure I used to be able to preview PSD thumbs, but after reading this I checked and now I can’t!?!
Isn’t there a way of doing it via Windows itself? I can’t remember.
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I’m sorry…I’m on Win XP Pro / 2GB RAM / 2.4GHz p4 / Nvidia GeForce 5200
Thanks.
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When you’ve imported as composition, instead of dragging all the files from the proj window..double click the composition icon in the project window and it should open a new comp in the timeline based on the size of the p/shop file.
As for shadows and glows, etc. it depends on your version of p/shop and afx but I think crossover support has improved as they’ve updated the apps. They will probably come in as adjustment layers. The fool proof way of doing it is merge all your layer effects into the layer in P/shop first (Keep an editable copy of the PSD aswell though!) and import the version with ‘flattened’ effects into AFX. It means you can’t edit the glows, etc in AFX, but I guess you could just recreate them within AFX from scratch so you can alter props over time?
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I will do some tests and mix media a bit and see what happens. Thanks for the info Chris.
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Hi Chris,
Haven’t got the Decklink yet – it’s in the post. I’m just basing this on using AFX 5.5 with our VT[3] I/O card as a monitor out. I wondered if in AE7 they’d sorted out fields..
I render upper field first mainly because we usually deal with interlaced digibeta footage for TVCs and I’m pretty sure that if I send progressive frames to our old Editbox (our main NLE at the mo) it goes bonkers! I often work with other peoples’ 3D work that gets sent from all over the shop aswell and that’s usually all done UFF.
Do I not need to use fields in this instance are you saying?
I just find it bewildering that a pro app like AFX doesn’t have this option. I mean I know it’s not a flame or inferno (dreams..) but it’s used pretty widely for alot of high-end work. I guess film work (and now 720/1080p HD work) is not that relevant as far as fields go, but with SD broadcast in the UK at least I thought fielded footage was the norm? Am I in a bubble?!?
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Yeah, that’s the only place I could find them – I don’t trust ebay for stuff like that though.
Too late – I’ve just bought a 3GHz one. Bum…thanks anyway!
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No one else experienced this then?