Joseph W. bourke
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Go into the Titler, create a shape and make it the color and transparency you want, and position behind text. Or search for the Impact Label typeface (a freebie usually), install it, and use that. There are probably other “reverse” typefaces besides Impact Label that you could find as well.
Joe Bourke
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Of course, if it weren’t for the timecode cartel, none of us would be working in this industry today…that is those of us who are long in the tooth…I’d love to see someone syncing two one inch machines with a wristwatch…:>)
Joe Bourke
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I think that with Particular you could achieve this, since it allows you to use a second layer as the source for the particles. Here are a couple of examples:
https://www.trapcode-content.com/help/particular/layer_emitter.html
So you would use one of your sample patterns as the “template” for particle emission, and change the settings in Particular so they don’t actually “emit”, but wobble in place.
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There had to be something seriously wrong with that box for it to behave so poorly. Maybe the hailstorm actually got the thing wet, and there was water damage to some of the components. I feel really bad about this. My experience with the Z800 was just astonishing in terms of the speed ramp up from my old “workstation”, which was really just a gaming box.
Joe Bourke
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That’s really good news Duke. But it’s also a pain in the butt for all that you’ve gone through. I wonder whether the seller’s acceptance of the return shipping might mean that he knew something? Just a guess.
Joe Bourke
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One last thing to try. Have you done the Windows 7 Control Panel/Performance Information and Tools speed test? That might give you an inkling of where the bottleneck is, since it rates the particular components of the system. I’m just so puzzled by this. It may be that this particular machine has a problem. I’m sorry that this is so disappointing.
Joe Bourke
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The more I look at the screen shot and hear the problems you’re having, the more it sounds as if it’s the graphics card. Take a look in Speccy and see if any problems are showing up there, and also, if you haven’t done it already, power down, take out the power cord at the back end, open it up, and reseat the graphics card. Also check any connectors coming off the card into the system. This computer was shipped – it might have been handled gently, it might have been manhandled. It might be that simple; I hope so.
I had the same type of problem, but with RAM, shortly after I got my Z800: all of a sudden on bootup, I’d get error messages, and it would go to DOS and show that there was bad RAM in such and such a block. I opened the box up, reseated all the RAM (didn’t have to remove it, just pressed it lightly into the slot, and the problem went away.
Joe Bourke
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If there’s something wrong with it, you should definitely send it back. I’m just wondering if you haven’t taken enough time with it to set everything up and really get it ready for what you’re throwing at it. Of course, I can only give you the results I’ve had with my Z800, and it’s really fast, both with PPro and AE. I’m sorry that you’re having the results you are, but I wonder whether one day is enough of a shakedown cruise, and whether you’ve optimized all the settings you need to in that short space of time.
I had frustrations and what appeared to be problems with my machine for at least the first week or two, and they all turned out to be user error and setups I didn’t know at the time on my end. I spent a lot of time on the COW, and was helped out, especially by Walter Soyka, with problems I was having. If you feel you have to return it, of course do so.
Joe Bourke
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Some more of what looks like useful information from Adobe:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1877068?start=0&tstart=0
Joe Bourke
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Did you work through the video link on optimizing PPro for the HP Z800? I think that will help out. You may also want to check on the specs of the machine – did you download Speccy yet? You can use it to run the traps on all of the components and the CPUs to make sure everything is as it was promised by the seller. I know that on my Z800 not all 12 memory slots show up, but the total amount of RAM shown is correct.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com