[Riccardo Sinti]

No I am just using BlackMagic Deck Control v5.1
v5 had an apple + t key stroke to name the clip aboiut to be captured, v5.1 doesn’t have this anymore.

[Riccardo Sinti]

Any one have an idea why ( U ) isn’t showing time remap keyframes?

[Riccardo Sinti]

I was actually getting aneurysms in my knees, like Dick Cheney.

The Firewire 800 sounds like a good idea as I don’t need multiple streams.
But heres the thing: I can, and do manage to playback and layoff from my internal drives, which I learn are 7200 rpm (I did not configure this system myself and currently have no tech support).
I moved some of my AE renders to a relatively empty and I assume less fragmented internal drive, from my main hard drive, and I havn’t had any problems so far.
I suppose that if I continued to fill up this drive, I would have problems.
So 7200 rpm IS good enough SOME of the time, but I guess not ALL the time.
Until I can get approval for a Firewire 800 drive I’ll just try to keep a clean drive just for renders, but I understand and thank you for your advice.

Riccardo Sinti.

[Riccardo Sinti]

Yeah, I am playing back from internal 7200 rpm drives.
But I have problems playing back 8bit and 10bit.
Short of getting a fast RAID what can I do to optimize playback? I just upgraded decklink software, QT, etc.

[Riccardo Sinti]

Learned everything on the job (in free time from working in the library) Taught myself AE and just figured it out as the jobs came, of course the Cow has helped.

[Riccardo Sinti]

How do i amend the expression

thisComp.layer(“Layer 1”).position – [0,0,1]

to delay the layer from folowing?

I have this saved biut don’t know how to use it:

value_at_time(time-this_comp.frame_duration)

[Riccardo Sinti]

How do i amend the expression

thisComp.layer(“Layer 1”).position – [0,0,1]

to delay the layer from folowing?

I have this saved biut don’t know how to use it:

value_at_time(time-this_comp.frame_duration)

[Riccardo Sinti]

Thank you so much.
That position expression does the trick but there are problems:
1. with 90 layers it become a render hog, but I can deal with that.
2. the second card is indexed to the first -1 in the z position, but by layer 90 the position gets offset by -90 in z compared to layer 89.
so that the stack becomes very tall! In otherwords, the distance between layer 3 and two is more than 2 and 1 and so on until layer 90 gets stacked way far from layer 89.
I would like them all to stack the same distance from eachother, as if they were lying on top of one another.

[Riccardo Sinti]

Thank you so much.
That position expression does the trick but there are problems:
1. with 90 layers it become a render hog, but I can deal with that.
2. the second card is indexed to the first -1 in the z position, but by layer 90 the position gets offset by -90 in z compared to layer 89.
so that the stack becomes very tall! In otherwords, the distance between layer 3 and two is more than 2 and 1 and so on until layer 90 gets stacked way far from layer 89.
I would like them all to stack the same distance from eachother, as if they were lying on top of one another.

[Riccardo Sinti]

I want one card to follow the previous card in x,y,z dimension but end up -1 in the z axis.

I thought I knew how to do this but it is not working.

thisComp.layer(“Layer 1”).[position[0], position[1],position[2-1]]

Why doesn’t this work?

I have the comp, the layer then the 3 value array.

So just an even more basic question, how do I write out the full expression with the x,y,z array for position and not just

thisComp.layer(“Layer 1”).position

For some reason I just can’t get my head around exprssions all the time. I wish someone would do a seminar or weekend course on just expressions!