[Randy Mcwilson]

Looks pretty solid so far. Here are some things to consider:

Does the motherboard have built in firewire?

Does the motherboard have Sata II

Also, get a Quadro video card, there are pricey but help on rendering time. (especially After Effects)

You asked what a raid is: RAID is several things, but primarily it is the connecting of multiple to hard drives to act as one large drive. This is done for 2 reasons:

(1)you can set up a RAID for REDUNDANCY (which means that your data is being written to at least 2 drives at any one time—this keeps you from losing data if any single hard drive crashes–usually done as RAID level 5)

(2)RAIDs are also used to help increase the throughput for either reading or writing to the drives. You can split your data across multiple drives which means that (for example) if you had one drive that could write at 30 MB/sec, then if you had a performance RAID you could write to 2 drives at a combined speed of 60 MB/sec. this is important for high data rate applications like multiple streams of High Def video.

Hope this helps

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[Randy Mcwilson]

The 256 kbit rate is not very high, especially if there is alot of movement. I would move it up to at least 512, but realize that your file sizes will jump up as well

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[Randy Mcwilson]

The only way I could see this being done is to duplicate the layer and then use masks. This would allow you to have different chokes, but it is really on different layers

Randy

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[Randy Mcwilson]

Dave:

I also found another (similar) workaround.

I duplicate my layer. Take the top layer and add Keylight and then go into “SCREEN MATTE” instead of “Final”

I tweak to make the key clean, and pure white inside of the subject.

I then select the lower layer and use a Luma track matte (the important thing here is to leave Keylight in the layer above on “screen matte”)

Works good—doesnt have the added benefit of edge color correction though.

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[Randy Mcwilson]

I found my own solution.

Go to Options>Device Properties>Wave In>(bottom left of screen) check box “Adjust to zero-DC when recording”

The first .5 seconds will be below but then Audition ramps it up to the zero mark.

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[Randy Mcwilson]

Ben-thanks

I am just trying to avoid having to manually add the layer to each comp and then exporting. I have between 300-400 clips.

thanks!

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[Randy Mcwilson]

Here a couple of suggestions:

(1) make a totally new project and IMPORT the other project into the new one.

(2) Create a new timeline in your existing project. Go to the old timeline, copy EVERYTHING and then paste it into the new timeline.

good luck

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[Randy Mcwilson]

Here a couple of suggestions:

(1) make a totally new project and IMPORT the other project into the new one.

(2) Create a new timeline in your existing project. Go to the old timeline, copy EVERYTHING and then paste it into the new timeline.

(3) make sure your scratch disks are not full. this will cause it everytime.

(4) I routinely get this error if I have a still graphic photo or image that is over 3000 pixels wide or so. I always shrink them down a bit in photoshop or do the effect in After Effects.

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[Randy Mcwilson]

Here are a couple of suggestions:

(1) unplug your firewire cable after you finish capturing. This can free up resources that bottleneck output.

(2) move your composer window to your PRIMARY monitor (if you have dual monitors)

hope this helps!

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[Randy Mcwilson]

Ben:

That does the trick. thanks.

Now the question is, WHY does it work?

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