[Mark Moser]

well nuts.. OpenGL is not enabled.
Thanks for your time Dave!

Anyone else seen this crazy white background?

-mmoser

[Mark Moser]

Thanks Dave, that’s how I actually made this one. I did it again just to make sure I didn’t get click happy somewhere and they are identical.

So, I’m gathering there isn’t a general meaning for this white background?

-mmoser

[Mark Moser]

does this thread help you?

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/962481

-mmoser

[Mark Moser]

Nope, just triple checked all that. Composition window set to view active camera, comp has one layer, no 3d enabled, twirled transform: “reset”

however I just noticed:
if I render out using animation, no white background.
if I render out using prores, I get the white background.

Can I not render out using ProRes if I have FCP installed? Somehow I feel like I’m going to get slapped for this one.

Thanks!

-mmoser

[Mark Moser]

No, sorry. I’m not asking about the exported footage rather the actual composition window in the after effects user interface.

If I start a new comp, throw in a solid and render, the composition window’s background stays the same grey as the rest of the user interface.

This prores footage (I have FCP 6.0.6 installed) looks fine, just while rendering the composition _window_ gets a white border.

While not rendering, I see this:

While rendering the window looks like this:

I remember seeing this, or reading about this before but I forget what the white background means.
thanks!

-mmoser

[Mark Moser]

So, has anyone experienced anything like this?

-mmoser

[Mark Moser]

Thanks for the info.

RAM preview only being a stream of “final output” make sense, not sure why I thought otherwise. Then is it possible to specify a compression for ram previews, like say prores or jpeg? Just curious if it is possible to get longer ram previews, more like 30 seconds. I know I could always render out the timeline, and probably should, but I want my slice of cake 😉 Maybe I should look more into proxies?

re:disk cache
…see, I *was* misunderstanding what this was. I assumed this was a way to increase the ram preview duration. Now I feel like my 40Gb scratch disk is overkill and silly.

Thanks again!

-mmoser

[Mark Moser]

Hey Adolfo, I’ve also been struggling to feel like I’m maxing out my systems performance and hope you could dbl check my settings. I have a dual quad core mac pro, which is reading as 16 cores because of hyper threading. I’ve got 16Gb of ram installed and using your notes above, this is where I’ve got it set:

I can ram preview a little over 8 seconds of a 720p timeline with no effects, just stills. Does this seem right to you?

I’ve also got a concern with disk cache. I almost never see the blue bar in my timelines, and when I do it is only a few frames. This is my disk cache configuration:

Either I’m misunderstanding how it works, or…something. That scratch drive is a 2.5TB 3 disc raid 0 array so I would think the 40GB allocated would not be a problem.

Thanks in advanced for your time.

-mmoser

[Mark Moser]

here is one explanation:
https://www.flandersscientific.com/index/interview#Grade

I realize it is a marketing ploy.

[Mark Moser]

I feel your pain. It definitely feels like I’m changing the mask color more then not. I’m often scrambling to reach a fast approaching deadline because I have to rely on other peoples work. Anything to make the process feel less frustrating makes for a more productive session. I guess I could drink less coffee…. naahh 😉

I’ve changed mine to red using this source:
https://www.creativemac.com/2004/01_jan/tutorials/aeqt1040127.htm
I’m on windows and it works just fine.

basically find this section in your preferences file:

[“Mask Colors”]
“Cycle Label Colors” = 00
“Default Color (0xAARRGGBB)” = “00ffff00”
“Interpolated Mask Dim Factor” = “0.750000”

Change your default color to the hex of your choice! (The first two zeros are for alpha, leave them be.)

Hope this helps someone.

-mmoser