Martti Ekstrand
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[Gunleik Groven] “Better have them locally on each location.
I like the net a lot, but don’t trust it much for continiuous streaming yet.”
You don’t have to access files over the internet when you use a web browser, you can just as well address local files. That’s actually a very common mistake for web beginners, their first attempt with pages point to files on their own computer instead of files accesible over the net.
If you keep all the files needed for the project in one folder, copy that folder to the rest of the computers at the same place on the identically named harddrives you should be good to go. I’m not that clever myself with web coding but I’ve seen this done.
Otherwise the free media player VLC have playlists that can be saved. I never looked into that feature so can’t say if it would be useful for your project.
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Yup, it’s possible within AE without any additional plug-ins. Check out this tutorial right here on the Cow:
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Well if you aim for a career in VFX get both and Shake as well (it’s dirt cheap now) and learn to use them all. None is ‘better’ than the other – different tasks to be done, different tools needed. The more flexible you are the better chances you’ll have doing good work and getting ahead in a really competitive field. And never forget to have fun!
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Also bear in mind that Flame is a pretty expensive piece of software. Unless you consider a quarter of a million dollars pocket change you’d might want to look at it’s baby brother Combustion instead which does run on OSX.
https://autodesk.com/combustion
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[Budrick21] “It’s my favorite thing to switch hardware in the model of a big project!”
Have you considered supergluing the lid on the G5/MacPro?
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That test is pretty old and only compares USB2 with Firewire400. Go for FW800 or eSATA.
Another thing to consider is that the Firewire controller chip is more ‘intelligent’ than USB which is more dependent of the CPU. If that is a difference enough to influence render speeds in AE I can’t tell but I know my brother sees a big difference in performance between USB2 and Firewire audioboxes when making music in Logic and Reason.
Myself I use LaCie FW800 drives for video/audio work and USB2 drives for normal file storage.
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I was going to say that Color will dilute the market for good colourists as much as Word has diluted the market for good novelists but then I remembered that with a snatzy title and clever marketing Dan Brown has sold millions worldwide of the horrendously badly written ‘The DaVinci Code’. Ominous indeed! 🙂
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Seems like CS3 will utilize as many cores as you can cram in a box.
https://blogs.adobe.com/bobddv/2007/04/ya_wanna_go_faster.html
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The basic method of creating the look of the band was painting them (and the car) black and white – literally! Then shooting green-screen followed by a massive amount of manual masking, hard-contrast treatment and colour correction. Landscape and wider shots were done with 3D CGI.
https://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=1072
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Sure, no problem.
1. Add a new solid to your comp, the colour doesn’t matter, it will not show in the end.
2. Use the mask tool to draw new mask in the middle of the comp, press shift to lock it to a perfect square – make it roughly 400×400 pixels.
3. Press ‘m’ on the keyboard to toggle to the mask properties, click on ‘Shape…’ and chose ‘ellipse’.
4. Now from the effect menu chose ‘render’ – ‘stroke’. Set ‘paint style’ to ‘on transparent’ (now you see why the solid colour doesn’t matter), brush size to 10-12 and colour to whatever you want your copyright sign to be. You should now have a nice circle.
5. Duplicate this solid in the timeline. Name the first solid “circle” and the second “C”.
6. Press ‘m’ again to bring up the mask properties, click on ‘mask 1’ to select it, press cmd-T (mac) / ctrl-T (pc) to get the rescale box and reduce the scale to about 80-85% of the first solid. You should now have two nice concentric circles.
7. Click ‘F3’ to open the effects panel for the new solid and set the ‘end’ value on the stroke effect to ‘70%’, the inner circle should now be open like a “C” but leaning backwards.
8. Select the mask again as in step 6. but instead of scaling it, rotate it to 35