[Nicholas Toth]

The way nucleo is going now, I’d say pick up the standard version of it and see if you like it (its a very reasonable price). If you get a big performance boost (it might not be big, but you will get a boost depending on your CPUs), go for pro. Pro’s nicest attribute is the background renderer — render while you work. Standard nucleo has saved my tail a few times already, cracking 15 hour renders down to around 3 or 4 hours. But then again I’m lucky enough to be on a G5 quad with 8 gigs of memory.

nucleo loves memory and multiple cores —

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[Nicholas Toth]

I don’t think you’re being clear enough. What do you mean sparkle? Lense flair? Glow?
Try to find something to compare it to.

[Nicholas Toth]

https://www.digitalanarchy.com/resizer/resizer_main.html

[Nicholas Toth]

As stated, don’t forget motion blur and dof. It adds realism.

Secondly, when designing the scene, I’d advise using the CUSTOM VIEW tab below the viewer. It orbits keeping the scene in focus — vs. gazing around like a camera does. Toggle pan/zoom/orbit using the C button.

[Nicholas Toth]

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/oneil_bill/DOF/index.html

[Nicholas Toth]

I have mine set to 1 at all times before I render, it takes more time but the render’s failure rate is much lower….
Toggle it before you set up the queue.

[Nicholas Toth]

Your taking the wrong approach.

Open them ALL in photoshop by shift clicking on ALL the pages when you open it in PS. Make sure to keep the resolution reasonably high (150 – 300), and then create an action to save them all in the same location. Import the photoshop docs to ae and you’re good to go.

[Nicholas Toth]

Woah — lots of talk about title safe.

Even TV’s today are messed up. I did an impulse buy (we all do sometimes…) on some low-end flat screen TV for my bedroom. I figured hey, who cares, its my bedroom and I don’t watch a lot of Tv in there, so it doesn’t matter if it isn’t high quality.

This frickin tv cuts off at title safe — yes TITLE SAFE. I did a test — technology isn’t all its hyped out to be.

[Nicholas Toth]

wow thats a life saver
THANKS COLIN

[Nicholas Toth]

Steve — just a warning — in office we have a dual 2.7g5 and a quad2.5g5, and they both get the stupid error so I don’t think it is Intel associated.