[Michael Mohr]

Vince,

I’m lokking more for a flat projection. The shot is of a person off to the side and the background is a just a wrinkled sheet. I want to have the company logo look like it’s being projected onto the background. I don’t want to just use opacity. I want the logoto appear as though it was printed in the sheet.

[Michael Mohr]

Well after working with the great guys at Sweetwater, I returned the Tascam and picked up a Mackie Onyx 820i FIrewire mixer and everything seems to work just great. I found you have to leave the audio codec in Premiere to the Adobe setting but it seems to work just fine. I can’t wait till the Adobe MPE comes out and I can ditch my matrox card.

[Michael Mohr]

Okay, so NO ONE does professional audio & video? Everybody uses their onboard audio or an audio card? Someone has got to be using a DAW in conjunction with CS4 products. In light of no one responding, he’s what I’ve found so far.

From Adobe: Adobe products don’t like USB – they prefer firewire.
From various forums: Working with audio on Vista Business 64bit is tougher than expected.
From Matrox: We never tried this… duh

How about it Premiere users…

[Michael Mohr]

My system uses a pair of AMD Opteron 265s. I have Tyan server class MB, Thunder K8WE, so it requires Registered RAM for each processor. It sounds like you’d have enough RAM oomph. I’m running DDR-400 in my system and I have a Nvidia quadro FX 1700. Like I said before, I’m not sure what made everything finally work well but I’m glad it does. I was also having problems capturing analog stuff. Since the upgrade I’m running pretty good.

[Michael Mohr]

Ursu, I just upgraded to the 4.1 Matrox drivers and they seem to be working pretty darn good. I haven’t had any problems but I’ve been doing pretty basic stuff lately. I also made sure ALL my drivers were up to date and I added more RAM so I have 4 gig per processor. The accelerated output is back which is really nice. It’s incorporated right in media encoder so you don’t have to worry about extra settings. The other change I made to my system was getting rid of a Sound Blaster Audigy Pro sound card and just using the on board audio. I’m not sure which change I made did the trick, I’m just happy it’s been pretty solid since. – I probably just jinxed myself now that I’ve said that…:-)

[Michael Mohr]

I no longer have the same configuration from the time of the original post. I’m running CS4 with Vista Business 64 and using a Matrox RT.X2.
Since adding the Matrox card I haven’t had any problems and the 64 bit OS really helped.

[Michael Mohr]

Brian,

Thaks for the file. Unfortunately because I’m running v9.6 I can’t open it. I ended up just belting all the points to the control object because I was running out of time and needed to get this done. Hopefully I’ll be able to upgrade to v11 real soon and I can dig into this a bit deeper. Thanks again for your your help.

Mike

[Michael Mohr]

Brian,

Thanks for your input. I think I may have this figured out to some extent. I have to actually start with the curtain drawn closed first, open it, then render the animation from the frames where it’s stopped it’s movement to where it’s closed again. If I do it that way the curtain doesn’t stretch at all in the Y axis and the top and bottom stay in the proper perspective.

[Michael Mohr]

Brian,

Thanks for the reply. I’ve checked all the cloth tag properties (all the tabs) they are identical to what they were in the tutorial. Nothing is animated – no key frames have been set. In the timeline and Fcurve windows there are no key key frames — not anything. The only way I can stop the curtain from stretching is to belt all it’s points to the control object that draws the curtain closed.

I’m attaching the file so if there is anyone out there that can figure out what I’m doing incorrectly it would be greatly appreciated. You’ll see the curtain stretches right away. At frame 589 the control cube starts to pull the curtain closed. The top stretches out but the bottom stays the original size.

149_curtaina.c4d.zip

[Michael Mohr]

Eddie, Jon and Chip,

Thanks for all the input. I finally found the problem. It wasn’t a driver problem. It was my lack of understanding ASIO settings. I had to uncheck the audio device in the input but keep it checked in the output. If both are checked the timeline won’t play. I guess I have to do a little reading so I undertsand this a bit more. I capture everything on this sytem with firewire so the input not being checked shouldn’t be a problem (I hope).