Nicholas Toth
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Consider this.
You can buy AE, Combustion, Shake, and Digital Fusion for less than the cost of Flame. Throw in some high end Black Magic or Kona cards, new display monitors, and you’re still less than Flame.
If you purchase all of them, you’re pretty set around the board. (then drop a grand on tutorials…) I’m not a combustion user, but the closeness between shake and df is SO rediculously close. Df just has a particle system and can import 3d objects/fbx files. They only have a handful of differences when it comes to workflow. Nodal is Nodal, you just have to learn to roll with the punches of different interface terms for certain effects.
If you’re hellbent on purchasing a high end Discreet product, you may want to check out Toxik. Its pricey, and you need own a membership annually, but it allegedly is the budget version of flame/smoke made for a system like yours.
Most importantly don’t forget its about the quality of the final product.
Its about the artist, not the box or the software he/she works on.Nicholas Toth
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Try a repair install.
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Check out the tutorials. Should be covered there.
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I’ve been working on a core duo Macbook Pro for about a year now. It is very quick. Its old school though, if you pick up a core 2 duo macbook pro, and pick up the production bundle in binary when it comes out in july, it should be about 40% faster than my machine. (I’m currently running AE/Premiere via bootcamp…)
I’m currently running the binary version of AE in OSX, and its pretty impressive.
Put 3 gigs of RAM in it too. It isn’t cheap, but you need it. And make sure your prefs dump the cache after every frame rendered. Otherwise you’ll crap out renders all the time.
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AH its the BUENA CAMERA MAPPER
(and its CINCO DE MAYA — HOW IRONIC!!!)Its like a ghetto version of REALVIZ’s Imagemodeler for AE.
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EH — I know there is a plug-in that does psudo texture projection for simple geometry like — say a house — where all the sides are poker straight — but for a car that could be tricky —
I’ll poke around for the plug-in, if you have the budget of course.
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Search the cow for tutorials. Its not a one click kind of approach….
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Sounds like a good ol
‘rebuild the entire project from scratch.’Make a new project, re-save it all, and re-import it all.
Sometimes that happens….Nicholas Toth
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I’d go with Kevin’s approach of re-saving the file.
Try to maybe resave them as a .psd, after effects really likes them.
Unless they’re cmyk of course.Nicholas Toth
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make sure they are RGB —
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