Kevin Camp
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hear is a link to a barefeats article comparing the new mbp to other macs… the second or third graph shows the mbp compared to a 4-core macpro on a ae benchmark test… the macpro is nearly 2.5 times faster in that benchmark.
Kevin Camp
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that is interesting… do you have render multiple frames simultaniously enabled in the multiprocessing preference on the macpro? iwth 9gb of ram you should have no problems rendering with all 4 cores.
it is possible that zax is interfering… essentially being a separate piece of software running within ae, its hard to tell how it might effect ae’s new multiprocessing render engine.
Kevin Camp
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when i need to create a small media file for email or the web, i will always render out as lossless animation and take that to the compression software to create the smaller file. you will almost always get noticibly better quality and samller file sizes by using this workflow.
if your compression software doesn’t take quicktime file, uncompressed avi would work equally as well.
as far as your question, i’m not sure why ae’s wmv would not work, but if you can convert a quicktime or avi to wmv with another piece of software that would be the better way to go.
Kevin Camp
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well, if i’m not mistaken, a pal dvd resolution is 720×576, so if you have 1 laptop playing the dvd you will need to scale your comp to 720×576, and there will need to be a way for the laptop to stretch it back to 2160×576 (to fill the 3 monitors).
or you will need 3 laptops each playing a dvd in each monitor, and each dvd containing 1/3 of your animation. in which case you will need to break your animatino into 3 rendered files.
as far as codecs/formats go, i would prefer to render to lossless animation or an uncompressed avi, whichever my dvd authoring software could read. then let the dvd software do the mpeg2 encoding.
as far as tweaking the output, if the tweaks are minor you could just bring the rendered footage back into ae and make adjustments, then render with those adjustments, which should be faster than re-rendering the original comp. but if you needed to significantly modify the footage, like remove an element, you’ll be going back to the origianl comp and re-rendering.
Kevin Camp
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if you haven’t already, check out barefeats.com. you’ll find a lot of benchmarks for macs there, just scroll down the page a bit. in particular, you migt be interested in this article, comparing the new ‘santa rosa’ mbp to other macs.
Kevin Camp
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i think that it is probably the pixel aspect correction, turning that off (as mentioned) would help. also setting the comp to 1280×720 and square pixel would help, that’s normally how i work with dvcprohd footage.
Kevin Camp
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i’m glad your bck up and running…
if you don’t have any probelms resetting the ae prefs the way you like them, then you should be fine to go and delete the old pref file.
Kevin Camp
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this may not be as easy as you hoped… that normally shouldn’t happen.
if you haven’t already, turn opengl off. go to the preferences for previews and uncheck the use opengl.
if that’s not it…. how was the psd imported, as comp or as footage? and what version and os are you using?
Kevin Camp
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you should be able to here the audio on a ram preview, if needed you can always shorten your work area to quickly render our small sections you are working on… hit the ‘b’ key to set the begining and the ‘n’ key set the end of the work area — note make suer you set the workarea back to the full duration of the comp (or area you want to render) otherwise you will only render the workarea.
you can also hit the decimal point on the numeric keypad to hear just the audio. this is useful when used in conjunction with hitting the asterisk on the numeric keypad to add markers to your layer at the points that something needs to happen.
also you can hold the command (mac) or control (pc) key down while scrubbing thru the timeline to hear audio as you scrub.
there is also a wave form that you can view (not the greatest, but its there). twirl down the attirbutes for your audio layer, then twirl the audio, and then waveform. if you zoom in on the timeline you’ll be able to see the waveform better, but it’s still not as useful as it could be.
Kevin Camp
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sorry, i meant preference file… interesting that moving the last saved file to the desktop made a slight difference. i’m not sure what to make of that.
anyway, in osx, the preference file should be in users/username/library/preferences/adobe/after effects/7.0. remove the file ‘adobe after effects 7.0 pref’ and see if that helps.
if you still have probelms, try moving all the files from library/quicktime and users/username/library/quicktime to a new location (like a folder on the desktop). these files are various codecs, normally third-party codecs, that you have installed. if this helps, but you need some of those codecs, add just the necessary codecs, and try restarting ae. if it fails, then you will need to go one by one until you find the bad one. then try downloading the latest version.
you may also want to try removing all third-party plugins from adobe after effects/plugins. ae installed plugins are in folders named ‘standard’ and ‘professional.’ if that helps, then you’ll have to add the other plugins back in one by one until you find the bad ones, then try to download the latest versions of those…
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW