[Mehmet Akten]

Hiya, I am much closer to a solution (in fact I got something that works for me now). I hadnt noticed that there was a seperate container for expressions so I’ve carried this thread there as it is probably more suitable.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/227/8478

[Mehmet Akten]

well Im quite happy to say that I got the 2nd expression (the way simpler one) working.

The Concept is similar to Dans auto-orient Y-only. Except it doesnt point the layer to the camera (you get distortion if you get close to the layer with auto-orient methods) – it keeps it parallel.
Code is below, I am a total AFX expressions newbie, so there may be easier ways of writing this, if so please lemme know.

(paste to Y rotation)
camDir = normalize( thisComp.activeCamera.transform.position – thisComp.activeCamera.transform.pointOfInterest );
camX = normalize( cross(camDir, [0,1,0]) );
radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(-camX[2],camX[0]));

I’ve started thinking about the first question (full camera facing), if anyone gets it before I do please post it and save me the headache!!

[Mehmet Akten]

Yea when you have multiprocessing turned on effectively a seperate instance of aftereffects is launched for each core when you render or ram preview – like having a render farm in one machine. I usually have multi processing turned off (8core mac pro, 9GB ram), because I find the delay when trying to preview is just too long (can take upto 10-15 seconds!) – also when coming out of the ram preview. I only turn on the option before big renders.

Another note, as tiger is NOT a 64bit OS, no single application can address more than 3GB of ram. Thats why when you launch aftereffects it says its using only 5% of 3GB, and not 5% of 8GB, it cannot see all of the 8GB – and theres nothing to be done about that until leopard comes out.

[Mehmet Akten]

cool thanks…

[Mehmet Akten]

[gary adcock] ”
The IoHD is not shipping yet so there are not too many that can talk about it.”

aah, so that would be why I’m having such a hard time finding a place to hire it from! I couldnt find info on the AJA site regarding when it will be released. Is the release date known?

My varicam shoot is in a few weeks, so I guess the IO HD is out of the question and I’ll go with the DVCPRO-HD route I was originally planning. In the meantime I think I will keep an eye out on the IO-HD+macbook Pro capturing route as it does seem like a pretty good way to capture (almost) lossless HD direct to disk!

[Mehmet Akten]

I’ve been having a massive discussion about this at the apple forums
https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4495496#4495496.

Basically i’m looking for a solution (as cheap as possible) that can easily support one 2K stream or multiple HD streams on a Mac pro – and with raid5.

the rocketraid cards (2322 for Multi-channel, or 2314 for port multiplied) seem the way to go, in addition with an enclosure (or more) like the Enhancebox E5, E8, E10, Sonnet Fusion 500P etc. You can get amazing performance and capacity for quite good prices.

If anyone is interested they should check out the post as I’m sure it could be useful to some…