[Richie Tovell]

Cool todd, I enabled multiprocessing and my preview time about doubled, at a guess I’d say there’s about 3 gig being used by the preview.

With my ram cache set to %90 there doesn’t seem to be any underuning etc.

A 1080 by 1920 m2ts movie previews for about 1 min once set to half it’s resolution and I can work with that.

Thanks.

Richie.

[Richie Tovell]

ah, I see.

Oh well, loocks like my reacent switch to working in HD is going to require me to move back to 64 bit then, ok no probs.

Thanks for clearing that up for me guys.

Regards Richie.

[Richie Tovell]

I see what your saying, I think the success I’m likely to have with restoring is going to be very limited, though perhaps I can find a way to be creative with it somehow.

Copyright, for this kind of media sampling is very much in it’s infancy, there are no existing channels to process, royalties between artists and copyright owners with regards to images. for some reason the major film studio’s have given movie sound tracks a much higher priority. it’s pretty odd, but I gues this is a result of “Video sampling” being a fairly new art form, Ironically no AV artist has ever been prosicuted for a violation of copyright law, the nearest thing to it was a dispute between Disney and Coldcut, and resulted in Coldcut being served a cease and desist order over their use of disney charrictors in their live performances.

The reality is there is very little money in underground AV art, people don’t really buy Video compositions from artists, so there has been no need (from the studio’s point of view) to enforce new laws, create new copyright societies etc to handle collecting and distribution of royalties, register everyones ownerships or settle disputes over film image rights. that’s not to say that it’s safe, people can still sue you, but mostly there’s too little money being made to warrent leagal action.

Personally though, if I was using footage of any person, actress or actor I would want to pay them royalties, from what revenue I don’t really know, but you are correct, copyright does have to be paid in advance often before you can even access a lot off footage, a martin luther king speach might cost you $1000 dollars etc . . .

However it is possible to purchase short term licenes to allow puplic playback of dvd’s etc but it’s a little odd, the dvd’s have a special liscence attatched to them and have to be hired and then returned, the broacast liscence is actually included in the hire fee of the discs, these kinds of discs are the type used on Oil rigs or at you local arts centre cinema nights etc. . .

There’s also public domain footage, this is film/media footage that has fallen in to “Public ownership” as a copyright liscence has not been renued for the movie, as abouve the film Snowbeast actually falls under this law and I am leagaly allowed to re distribute it via any means I so choose, even charging for it and selling it on as a dvd etc shpould I wish to do so.

I’m drifting on sorry my cousin is a sample clrearance officer so I can go on a bit, also it’s quite an interesting subject for me as it is my chosen art.

🙂

[Richie Tovell]

Oh, cool. That is simple, I was trying to add it to the begening 😀

I’m still downloading the tutorial, I guess even if there is no way to link the orbit tool to shatters camera system, creating a few paths without it isn’t going to hurt to much.

Thanks Erik.

[Richie Tovell]

Thanks for the pointers, can you project video on to objects created in invigerator?

[Richie Tovell]

That’s deep 🙂

And your right I am looking at it from an AE-centric universe, the reason being that I havn’t used any 3D modeling apps, also the compositions I’m working on are Primerilly Video so I would prefer to work in AFX as much as I can.

Are there any 3D modeling plugins for AFX? plugins that can create 3D geometric shapes not jut warp layers? I’m struggling with shatter at the moment, Im looking in to invigorator now though.

[Richie Tovell]

I see what your all saying, I guess I’m cool with that.

Personally I think the best 3d plug in AFX is Shatter as it can extrude 3D shapes from still images, this atleast is a starting point.

Thanks everyone, I appreciate your sugestions.

[Richie Tovell]

Sure, I am purely talking about effects here, I can see you understand my point though you don’t agree, well fair enough, it’s only my point of view but I was dissapointed especially with the displaicment map. Anyway I agree with you about the trapcode plugs.

There are two effects I’d most like to use but I’m stumped as to how exactly to achieve them in AFX, both I think should be achievable using displaicment mapping.

This kind of thing.

But I’d also like to use one image, (like some noise) to displaice a layer in 3D space, So as the layer itself is warpped aswell as the footage that’s placed on this layer so it can be rotated, and zoomed over etc. as bellow.

[Richie Tovell]

I thought it was antialiasing, though I don’t really want the edges of the layers to overlap, it makes the fact that they are all seperate layers too obvious.

I’ve had some success switching the layer quality to “draft” this make all the edges meet up purfectly but, degrades the picture quality severly, I’m probably going to have to use a combination of the two layer qualities “doubled” over one another – sandwidged together with the higher quality layer on top. It’s going to mean twice the work and there are something like 40 layer on this image allready

The Y rotation of the layers are linked, they will be keyframed with trapcode soundkeys used to animate the width of each layer, making the image “Pulse” as it morphes in to this shape.

lot’s of work double the work if I have to use two sandwidched layers for each plain:(

[Richie Tovell]

It is a bummer, it means we can only preview short amounts of our projects.

The good news is you can use that 16 gig to multi task, as long as you have a fast enough processor, I dont know about Vista but XP64 asignes 4 gig to each app thats running, wich is handy as I said for multi tasking, running more than one app at once.

Hopefully Adobe will release an “extended” memory version of After effects without the 4 gig limit that will allow us to use any amount of ram we might want.