Mark Maness
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I’m running all of the latest updates and I’m not seeing these issues… other than the Waveform issue. But that’s easily overcome by deleting your waveform files before starting FCP. This issue only relates to cross-platform (G5-Intel).
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Wayne Carey
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[Matt Rhodes] “Can you follow the steps below and tell me when ProAnimator crashes?
1. Open AE.
2. Create a new project.
3. Add a new Solid to your project.
4. Apply the ProAnimator plug-in to the Solid.
5. Click the “Create 3D Primitive” button.
6. Open the ECW panel.
7. Click on the “Click to Edit” button.I would assume that by this point, something has gone wrong.”
Right after I click on “Click to Edit”. Today I clikc on it and the window opens and draws all the info but I can’t seem to do much before the plugin becomes unresponsive. When that happens, Cmd-Tab allows me to change to another program and then change back to AE, then I can do a few more things before it happens again. After all of this… I can’t close the window to get back into AE.
[Matt Rhodes] “One other question: Where did you place the ProAnimator plug-in?”
It’s located in the Adobe After Effects 7.0 folder in my Applications folder. That is the location that your instructions told me to place it.
As for Motion… it doesn’t work at all. When you drop the 3rd Pary plugin on something (anything), Motion closes and gives me the error reporting dialog box from Apple.
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Wayne Carey
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Still doesn’t work for me…
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Wayne Carey
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UPDATE!
I also cannot use the plugin in AfterEffects 7.01. It does the same as Motion, just crashes and close AfterEffects.
I’m getting really frustrated that I spent $700 on a program that doesn’t really work right out of the box.
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Wayne Carey
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Thanks, Arnie.
That is what I’m having to do. But after I finally finish my comp, I have to change it to DVCProHD and then I have to tweak it a little to make up for the screen size differences.
It is a nice feature that AJA gave us, but it would be nice if AJA could add non-square pixel support so that we could be more productive.
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Wayne Carey
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Again…
This is because of the processing it takes to playback HDV. HDV is an elementary data stream. This means that the data has to be processed into video and compiled into a video stream on the fly. Its very possible with today’s computers but the drawback is that the computer cannot send this data back thru the firewire port at the same time.
I’m sure that you have heard that HDV is a Long GOP codec. In NTSC, there is one I-frame of video for every 14 frames of interpolated video. In Pal, its a 6 to 1 ratio. This is also the reason that HDV can have timecode issues when editing. Editing your project now, may be alright, BUT having to recapture everything later may cause you some headaches.
Just a little educational side note….
This is why HDV cannot monitor thru firewire. You need a low cost monitoring option, look at the Matrox MXO or the lower end Blackmagic and AJA offerings.
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Wayne Carey
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[Tim] “Guess I should have been more clear…I’m no fool.”
I appologize, Tim. I didn’t intend to offend you. Its just that there are many people out here that don’t understand that these little LCD monitors on the cameras are just for framing and information.
I have no reason why Sony would make a camera such as this and place a low quality LCD screen on them. The Sony HVR-Z1Us have a much higher quality screen than the XDCAM HD 330 and 350 series cameras. Sony admits to this. It boggles my mind that they are selling a broadcast quality camera with a low quality prosumer grade flip out LCD monitor.
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Wayne Carey
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Chris,
Where did you find a chromatic glow filter? I have Magic Bullet 2.1 and Nattress Film Filters and I don’t see anything in them other than a Chroma Blur.
I’ve been looking for that look for sometime now for a feature that we are working on.By the way, very nice looking trailer to your feature!
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Wayne Carey
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My suggestion to you is…
Dub all of your tapes to new tapes with continuous timecode (meaning pre-striped tapes), then you can drop your original tapes on the shelf for safe keeping while using your dubbed tapes for capture. You can do this by firewire to firewire dub.
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Wayne Carey
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[Tim] “One big thing to me…is the ability to check my color and sometimes framing with a field monitor…given the choice I would go with a camera that at least had an on-board lcd for monitoring.”
Let me give you a word of warning, Tim.
Please don’t use the onboard LCDs for a color check. Rarely do they show exact color. They are there to give you information about the camera and for framing only. My experience has been that the color of an onboard LCD is a little off but I guess it will keep you in a ballpark. The best solution for this is to purcahse a small mountable field monitor and use that instead. For example, Panasonic offers the BT-LH1700 which is a 17″ LCD that can be powered either by battery or regular electricity. They have a waveform monitor built in to it and has all the bells and whistles you can imagine for around $3000.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com