Matt Waryga
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Hey,
Unless you exported the 3d animation as lower field first I would not interpret as separate fields. In AE I would keep the interpretation of each item how you originally exported that source either from Maya or final cut. Since you are exporting it back to final cut, and it seems it likes to have LFF footage, I would make sure to render the composition with fields. This option is found in the Render Queue tab under render settings, Time Sampling, then Field Render.Hope this is of some help.
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I picked right up on what you were talking about as I too wondered about this problem before.
It is not completely clear though what your final result is so this may not work. but. . .
Create your white BG layer make it 3D and turn off accepts lights.
Make your blue light.
Then Make a circular shape layer with a blue radial gradient and the center a slightly lighter blue than the outer area. Then mask the shape with a feather to mimic the light. You may want to wait to turn off the BG’s ‘accepts lights’ so you can size up the blue circle.
then create an expression on the position of the shape and simply pick whip it to the POI of the light.
This way anything in front of the BG will still have the lighting on them it and it will appear to be on the BG too. You can have the shadows of items in the foreground appear on the BG too by turning on accepts shadows on the BG layer. kinda corny looking but maybe it’ll help you. The only problem is that it only will mimic the movement on the XY axis. However, you can probably figure out an expression to match the z depth of the light to the scale of the shape layer.
good luck
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Hey no doubt. I have much respect for the old days. Heck, I learned a lot taking apart and putting back together my 486, and I’m sure there’s people who would say that’s not that old school . . But, I just have a growing suspicion that this guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about for many reasons too long to list. However, I meant no disrespect towards anyone b/c of their age, era, job title, or obsession with DOS. ez pz lmn sqz
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LOL, you hit the nail on the head. As I had mentioned this guys new here and is very very old school. You’re probably correct in the fact that he offers solutions that he is familiar with and not what is the best solution for the company. Which is why I think he doesn’t want me to have a RAID b/c he is unfamiliar with these. Obviously he is if he thinks a RAID 0 will slow down my performance. What would be the point in spending extra money for more drives to setup a RAID 0 if there was no benefit? It wouldn’t exist if it made it easier to loose data and slowed down your bandwidth.
We have been talking about a RAID storage \ transfer solution and I believe are in the works of getting one. Which is why I suggested buying a 1TB external drive and putting my archive data on there until the RAID storage was implemented. Thus, saving us a lotta money. But now we have this tape drive to live with. And you’re right for the money spent on this it would have been better spent on a viable solution for every workstation not just one. But what can you do except post on forums and bitch.
follow up question:
what do you know about a unity? These are AVID network storage devices for multiple editing suites to access the same archive of video’s correct? Are these a good solution for networking all the graphics workstations and AVID suites or are the AVID specific? My suggestion was not for a unity but a RAID like you previously suggested.thanks >_<
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Thanks for your response,
I thought I was correct in thinking that a RAID 0 striping speeds up performance where RAID 1 is for protection, and RAID 5 both. I just needed someone to tell me I wasn’t crazy. Our engineer told me different and given the fact he is an engineer I respected his opinion enough to check it out. After a little research I discovered that a software RAID 0’s strain on the CPU is “negligible”. It only becomes and issue in parity-based RAID’s. -
thnx 4 da tip