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Kevin Taylor
November 8, 2016 at 8:13 pm in reply to: AE CC 2017 full of bugs

The comps I have that crash have no audio.

I have disabled “Play audio in Preview” as well but the behavior is still the same: hit Spacebar and crash. Hit numberpad period and crash. And so on.

Kevin Taylor
Atlanta GA
Kevin Taylor
November 4, 2016 at 2:12 pm in reply to: AE CC 2017 full of bugs

This is what I get when (improperly) previewing with the spacebar:

The timeline gets cached(?) – AE saves a file – and exits to the desktop showing an error window like the image above.

I’m running AE CC 2017 and OS X 10.12.1 on a newer (trashcan) Mac Pro.

This behavior is 100% of the time with a project created and converted from 2015.3.

I haven’t see this happen with a new project made in 2017 yet. And importing the 2015.3 project into a 2017 project didn’t trick it. The sequence I was trying to preview had no plugins running except Lumetri. I get the same result if I hide everything in the timeline and hit spacebar.

So I’m wondering where to start…clean install? Remove all third party plug ins? Live with it for another week until this legacy project is done and hope that a new project that originates in 2017 doesn’t exhibit this behavior? Keep searching the help forums for what a “proper RAM preview means” 😉

Kevin Taylor
Atlanta GA
Kevin Taylor
May 1, 2009 at 11:24 pm in reply to: AE CS3 won’t auto load EXRs

Nevermind…looks likes it’s fixed in CS4. Just one more reason to get my luddite employers to upgrade.

Kevin Taylor
Atlanta GA
Kevin Taylor
August 29, 2005 at 11:37 pm in reply to: Will the Dell 24” work as good as the Apple 23″” with BMD ?

Handpick probably is nonsense. Perhaps what I meant to convey was that each company will have a diiferent level of quality standards and expectations. Apple’s has always been rumored to be higher.

https://www.screentekinc.com/lcd-quality-standards.shtml

https://www.thinksecret.com/news/0508retail.html

I have also come to understand that within Dell there are different levels of service. Not but five minutes ago I looked up the 24 inch LCD and it is priced at $1079.10 in thier “Home and Home Office” section. But if you access the same product (SKU and part number identical) from the “Medium & Large Business” unit, then the price is $1,199.00. Go figure.

I suspect the big biz customers tech and customer service calls go to Austin while the home people get routed to India.

Kevin Taylor
The Malabar Front
Atlanta Georgia
http://www.malabarfront.com
Kevin Taylor
August 26, 2005 at 9:40 pm in reply to: Will the Dell 24” work as good as the Apple 23″” with BMD ?

Aonother short reivew:

https://www.barefeats.com/lcd.html

Kevin Taylor
The Malabar Front
Atlanta Georgia
http://www.malabarfront.com
Kevin Taylor
August 26, 2005 at 9:38 pm in reply to: Will the Dell 24” work as good as the Apple 23″” with BMD ?

Here is a shoot out between the two manufacturer’s 20″ displays:

https://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2400

And an HP review:

https://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2467

Kevin Taylor
The Malabar Front
Atlanta Georgia
http://www.malabarfront.com
Kevin Taylor
August 26, 2005 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Will the Dell 24” work as good as the Apple 23″” with BMD ?

The guy that runs https://www.hdforindies.com/ has blogged a couple of experiences with his Dell 24 that might be worth reading.

I think like most things, you get what you pay for. In many ways the two monitors offer the same guts and performance. The Dell has some extra inputs that may or may not be more trouble than they are worth…based on what the hdforindies person found out.

Dell buys more LCDs than anybody in the world and they get the best pricing. But Apple supposedly only buys the best of those LCDs and turns down others that don’t adhere to their strict quality standards. I’ve heard this translate to an Apple screen may have one dead pixel and make it though inspection but a Dell could have five.

I think the main price difference may show up in level of customer service you can expect. Get a bad pixel or uneven backlight on the Apple and you can probably drop by an Apple store and exchange the monitor with no questions asked. Have a problem with the Dell and prepare yourself for long holdtimes with some call center in India. When you finally get your replacement monitor, you’ll realize that they shipped you some refurb with another set of issues.

If you’re somebody that bills $100+ an hour, consider how much time and money can be wasted by suffering through some annoying hardware service issue. Maybe you don’t have a local Apple Store to visit and you’ll be dealing long distance with both Apple or Dell. That kind of levels the playing field.

Kevin Taylor
The Malabar Front
Atlanta Georgia
http://www.malabarfront.com
Kevin Taylor
June 20, 2005 at 5:27 am in reply to: What Firewire 800 card is best

A friend of mine just sent back his LaCie card complaining of serious crashes with his Kona2 card every time he accessed an audio file. He’s thinking the card was a 33MHz card and was bottoming out his bus.

Kevin Taylor
The Malabar Front
Atlanta Georgia
http://www.malabarfront.com
Kevin Taylor
April 1, 2005 at 3:58 pm in reply to: calibrating a non-professional HD monitor

Take the path that most home theater people do and hire an ISF Certified person to calibrate it for you ($200 or more) or buy yourself the “Digital Video Essentials”DVD ($20) from Amazon and run through the tutorials. There are other discs as well but I know that one ships with a blue filter that you can hold up to your eyes to simulate the “blue gun only” feature on production monitors. Also, many THX certified DVDs have a section called the THX Optimizer that contains some test patterns and such for setting brightness, contrast, etc. But without the blue filter it becomes impossible to set the Hue using SMPTE bars.

Kevin Taylor
The Malabar Front
Atlanta Georgia
http://www.malabarfront.com