[Jim Sanders]

Thank you Steve, I will try your suggestion (makes all the sense in the world).

Have a great holiday and cheers to the upcoming new year.

[Jim Sanders]

Thank you Tony, sounds like some very valuable information.
I am glad to return from the dark side at home but, at work I am still forced to stay on the dark side.

Oh well, I will try your suggestions when I return home this evening.

Happy Holidays and Cheers to the upcoming new year.

[Jim Sanders]

Thank you Chris, I checked out your website, it’s a great site.

[Jim Sanders]

Govinda, thank you for your responce. I am on a dual processor PC (HP wx8000). I did not have AE open and your suggestion… “using column view in the finder, and the last movie you rendered is selected so that you can see its thumbnail preview in the finder. If that describes your movie, it’s ‘open’ and in use. Just go Command-2 to go to list view in that finder window”.
Does not seem viable to me because I do not have any windows open.
I tried to switch to .AVI render and the same prompt comes up except it says .avi preview.

Still scratching my head.

[Jim Sanders]

Steve, I respect your point of view and agree with you (a little). My situation is very complicated and without saying much (and taking an hour of everybodies time), some of the complications are bureaucracy, politics, 2nd and third party middlemen (sub-contracted engineering). Believe me I understand 100% what your are talking about.

One of the most important things I forgot to mention is that the system has worked for over three months and out of haste & having no time to trouble shoot the system thoroughly I posted the initial help request (not thinking I would stir up a hornets nest – I am a new humbled Creative Cow user).
I have now brought the system back on-line and it is working fine with the hardware I have.

I have been in the corporate world for over ten years and I designed the $200K suite and it is very useful for the productions we create (We have never sub-contracted post-production work until just recently). We have had an in-house system for over 30 years.
I do feel I have to address this… “The work would be better {presumably} and you would’ve helped sustain a viable professional lifestyle for a few people”.
The video commuinty in our area is thriving and I send a lot of professionals out on some very high end budget shoots. There is nobody complaining around here.

I will not call you a sourpuss because, I respect your views from the outside looking in But, when you look in here you will see over 50 years experience between some very talented producers and post-production professionals and not what you described as bundles of old equipment kicking around and buying stuff out of catalogs.

Peace Out

[Jim Sanders]

Thanks Jim, Could you please e-mail me with your contact info. I would like to talk to you in more detail and maybe scedule a visit while you are in the area. My e-mail address is james.a.sanders@gdatp.com.

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

[Jim Sanders]

Thank you Bob for the excellent advice. I do not like to make excuses but I have spent $200K for the on-line suite (setup with (2) Media 100-844x systems) and it was very hard to convince our leadership to acquisition hardware for the MAC G5 that we had kicking around. I had to go low budget purchasing the UVW on e-bay and borrowing the DVD-7400 from a trade show asset (we did purchase the DSR-45 brand new). I will take your advise and purchase an active switcher & Jim Kruse’s advise on genlock /blackburst.
I am extremely busy in the on-line suite and I do not have the training on FCP. the FCP workstation is for sub-contractors (SC) and Interns and I was hoping that one of the SC’s would be an expert but the ones I use only use (1) firewire input.
Nobody nows of an AJA / FCP expert in the New England area (Burlington, Vermont)?

Thank You and I will look at Sigma Ele.& Krammer active switchers.

[Jim Sanders]

Again thank you Dave, there’s a lot of wisdom in your last post. I think I may just do what you suggested… Build a copy of what Jumpback is doing in Maxon Cinema 4D. I am pretty new at the software but I have a little time built into the deadline for experimenting. Thanks

[Jim Sanders]

Dave Thanks, what I am using is a 2D Jumpback (www,digitaljuice.com) vol. 22 clip 888. It already has a (small) 2D globe (very textured earth) spinning in the left center 1/3 and the rest of the screen is of the same 2D texture earth rotating at the same speed as the inset globe (earth). I was tring to map the land based footage on the texture land masses and the black oceans map the space footage?