[Rich Ramazinski]

Thanks for the replies!

I double-checked that all layers are 3d, no blending modes are on. I also ended up turning off all the effects and collapse transformations to see if that had any affect. And there’s no Kilroy/shyguy layers hiding about.

I think I’m trying to make too practical of a world in AE… shoulda used a 3d app.

[Rich Ramazinski]

Sorry, no 2d layers.

Nothing to get rid of. If only I could use that trick to divide the AE rendering process in a useful way!

Thanks anyway Dave.

[Rich Ramazinski]

AE’s trying to tell you that your system doesn’t have enough RAM to piece together the composition you’ve made.

For me, the main problem is that my composition (or some of my nested comps) is too large (I try to stay under 2000 x 2000). If you need to stay huge, sometimes i take the time to “windowpane” a shot (cut 1 big comp up into 2 or 4 sections).

These tricks chop up your project into managable pieces that AE doesn’t choke on.

Of course, you could also mess with your image cache/RAM settings under Preferences, or go fill up your system with more RAM…

[Rich Ramazinski]

I’ve had good experience with Ultimatte 2.2 in AE 6.5; never used it with 7 though.

The thing I loved about it was that you could import a plate (or build one out of photoshop and existing frames), and it would create a very intelligent difference matte for you- useful when there’s a lot of consistent shadows/bright spots in your keying area.

on the bad side was that the plug-in would try to pop you into a seperate user interface to do all your tweaks.
Also, render time was kinda long.

http://www.ultimatte.com has a demo download, if you’d like to try it.

r

http://www.richrama.com

[Rich Ramazinski]

looking good!

i think you should start experimenting with the 3d camera in AE. The tricks with perspective and the focus on foreground vs background would be right up your alley.

r

[Rich Ramazinski]

I KNEW IT!

thanks for the response.

[Rich Ramazinski]

Thanks for the responces, guys.

All the footage were image sequences, so there was no interlacing involved.

I did just redo the whole project last night in an organized, very OC-kinda way.

r

[Rich Ramazinski]

I’m down.

A monthly task:

“make it rain” or “make someone’s head explode”

stuff like that?

[Rich Ramazinski]

thanks for the info.

Yeah, I’m pretty excited about the whole union thing- I just have friends who are very structured about specifically what their career plans are (“i’m going to be an AC, and join their specific union. That’s my plan.”). I never expected being randomly offered a union gig in a field i wasn’t totally working in.

But union is better than independent contractor in some ways!

I’m rambling now. Thanks,

r

[Rich Ramazinski]

Andrew-

Yeah, this sucks- I ended up batch automating the cr2’s in photoshop.

hey- when are we going to vegas again???