[Rick Morton]

Yes, I guess that’s it. If you hit a concrete block with a sledge hammer, you wouldn’t end up with nice, smooth rounded pieces. They’d be jagged and rough. That’s all I want. My pieces look hard-edge until the render, then they’re all smooth and rounded. Strange looking for a “crashed” piece of concrete.

[Rick Morton]

Can you (or anyone) tell me why the ages in the Moroni fractured object are so rounded? I’m trying to crash a block of concrete to the floor and have it break apart – ala a recent Andrew Kramer tutorial. I can break it up, but the edges of the concrete pieces are all smooth and rounded. ????
Help!

[Rick Morton]

Thanks. I’ll look for that.
Haven’t seen any GRAVITY settings, though. And I thought of that first.
Seems like it should be VELOCITY… but those settings don’t seem to anything.

[Rick Morton]

Thanks!
By the way… do you know how I can make the building collapse like the ones in the San Andreas movie? Cinema has the new Voronoi shatter effector, but I can’t seem to make that go from the top down. And it always wants to “breathe” before starting the collapse. I don’t want the breathing thing… just want to start eating away the building from the top down. Any thoughts? Watch that San Andreas trailer. Amazing.

[Rick Morton]

My Mac Pro config is
3.0 ghz
8 coree
25mb L3 cache
32 gb DDR3
512 flash storage
Dual AMD Firepro D500 with 3GB Vram

[Rick Morton]

Yes. We’re always editing in ProRes 1920 or 4K. Never in h264. I can look at the spin down issue and see if I can change that. Don’t know. These drives, of course, are supposed to have tons of throughput, especially with ProRes, using the Thunderbolt on a Mac Pro. It seems to be FCP that’s the only thing that runs poorly on the MacPro. AE does a fine job. Don’t use Motion or Logic. As I said.. I was assuming, when I bought this, that I’d be in editing high-speed heaven.

[Rick Morton]

Not sure. I’d have to be at the office to check the config. Not the highest, but not the lowest, either. It’s just that that new Mac was supposed to be the best of the best… and I think that’s just not true.

[Rick Morton]

Thanks. Yes… the coffee can Mac Pro.
No. haven’t tried the internal drive but have tried different external drives.
Background stuff is off most of the time.
Not interested in Premiere.

[Rick Morton]

I’ll check that. But again, it works fine… then goes to rendering only about 4 seconds. Then less. Then it starts to repeat at about 2 frames… then I get the error message.

[Rick Morton]

I’m using the latest Snow Leopard. This machine is at the office, so I can’t give you the specific number.
Here’s the case number. We have updated your case #181387200.
I’m not sure about the multiprocessing – I’ve never turned it on or done anything with it. Didn’t know it existed, so whatever the default is is where I am with it.
The original tech guy sent me to the AE guy who put me on hold and came back and said this was a “known issue”. That’s about all I can tell you. Thanks for your help with this.