Matt Gerard
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Dangnabbit- this was supposed to go into the FCP forum. Sorry about that, people. I’ll leave it hear for fun, if a mod wants to delete it, that’s fine. Anyone has anything to weigh in, that’s great to. Going to repost in the FCP forum now.
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mattIts more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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We are using LTO4 and Retrospect. I don’t like it. I haven’t had to try to get anything off it yet, but I suppose for back up and forget you have it type stuff, it works. We archive shows short term on bare drives with weibetech enclosers, then make a Tape backup of each drive. Problem is that 750 gig drives are getting hard to find 🙂
I would love to move to a Cache-A and might do it now with LTO5 and the price drop.
I did read an article from Larry Jordan trying to get an LTO5 hooked to his macpro and it took 2 weeks and hours on the phone with the maker of the drive. And it still involved dipping into the Terminal in OSX to get the tape to mount.
I thiink cache-a is the way to go, even if it is more money, you’ll save it in the end with troubleshooting.
Matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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We’ve got a full set of Red primes and the 18-85 zoom that looks like a potato cannon when its mounted. Awesome lenses, aint cheap but man do they look good. Just shot 2 cam shoot with the red zoom on the A cam and the lumix zoom on the B cam (both AF100’s) and had a hard time balancing exposure for both as the red zoom is a 2.8 and the lumix is a 5.6+ when zoomed in. I think we ended up running the A can with red at ISO200 and the B cam with the lumix at ISO400 and it seemed to look OK on the production monitor. Ingesting the ftg now.
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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My Meridian Media Composer system had a page turn effect in it…
You could certainly do this within FCP and some photoshop work. Make all your layers in PS, then import to the seq in FCP. You should use the shape of the pages to mask the video layer. And there are a few page peel effects within FCP
As for the B+W video effect, here are a few-
DVShade LiveToon
FX Factory Pro ZebraGood luck, and hopefully you will improve on the example. As Dave said, stay away from AE if’n yer not schooled in it. Unless you crave steep learning curves…
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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[forest jacobsen] ” I have tried making it edible and selecting the area but that only applies a portion of the image”
I would advise not to eat the polygons. they might get stuck in your throat 🙂
Have you been able to get the image onto the polygons you selected and not the whole sphere? If so then you are half way there. like I said before, use the texture tool to scale and resize the texture to fit the selection. Make sure you don’t have the texture projection on UVW Mapping, otherwise the texture tools won’t work. play with the other projection modes.
matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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You need to scale and position your texture.
Read the help docs on the texture tool, they are most informative.
Matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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I have hijacked about every computer in our offices for NetRender. I think there are about 7 boxes that I have running it, and the only time I get issues is when running Thinking particles, or random based effects like that. Then the specifics of the processors come into play in how they make their calculations. They claim it *shouldn’t* matter, but it does. Believe me.
As far as the net render mod, I think every base copy of C4D comes with a 3 seat net render license, but not sure as I have Studio, and that is unlimited.
Oh, and I’m running all Macs, both Intel and PPC. Not sure why I bother with the PPC machines, the intels render 10 frames and the PPC is only done with 1/2 a frame.
Hope this helps. Oh, and don’t forget to copy all the plugins to the net render machines. Otherwise goofy things happen.
Matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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Thanks for the perspective. I did realise there would be many ways of doing this. I’m trying to get my hands on the CADs before I promise too much, so hopefully that will happen in the next week or so. I don’t want to promise too much before seeing the assets that they give me to work with.
I think the animation along a spline will be the easiest way to go. You’re right, i don’t want to redefine the laws of physics for this. there are 3 or 4 major components that all move to make this thing follow the ground, so I would like to make the subs assy’s and see if I can control them enough just my animating the assemblies. That would be easiest and most understandable to me. I do know some expresso, so I can utilize that if need be. This thread will be alive for a while, I’ll try to post WIP’s and most likely more questions along the way, so others can search and read about it as well.
Thanks for the advice!
Matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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the Rhino demo gives you 20 or so free conversions. I’m down to 12 left!
matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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My room books for $175 per hour. That includes all editing, graphics, DVD authoring, and anything else that is needed to be done in my room to complete the project.
With that said, that is a baseline. I think its been years since I did a project on time/materials basis. All my projects are done on an estimate/bid system. I tell them how much I will do the job for, and if it takes longer, my rate goes down. If I figure out how to get it done wicker, my rate goes up. It all balances out. As I get more efficient, I make more money, and I pass some savings to the client.
But there are jobs that I do (such as the one I’m on right now) where I know the client can’t pay for what it would really take, so I take a hit on those jobs to keep the client happy. But they KNOW that I’m giving them more than what they can afford, and that is why they are loyal to my business. I bid $2500 for an 3d animation that I’m working on. That works out to about 14 hours. I know i have about 35 into already and I’m not done yet. But my calendar is a little thin right now, and I’m also using this project to learn and try some new things.
FYI.
Matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…