[Scott]

Jeremy,

It is true that I cannot fault Huge’s customer support, which has been exlempleary. However, since last Easter, the Huge Media vault has failed completely at least half a dozen times. Disk Warrior has been ineffective in saving any useful data, finding and fixing files on the first pass, but consistantly failing to write back the fixed files to the raid, resulting in total loss of the data, and requiring a complete reformat of the drive. (If anyone wants the steps, I can, at this point, recite them from memory)

In fairness, we discovered that at least some of the problems are a result of an “undocumented application behavior, ” which we used to call a “bug” in FCP 4.5 (since fixed, I’m told, in 5.0)in which FCP allocates the entire empty drive space during capture now. After capture, FCP 4.5 would then have to de-allocate the rest of the drive, and if you have several hundred gigs open, this takes several hours. Force quitting during de-allocation corrupts the raid, resulting in catastrophic data loss.

We are working with 10 bit uncompressed Beta and DVcam footage for the most part, injested via AJA IO.

We are working with the Media Vault in redundant mode, which gives us approx. 500-600 GB of space, that is, when it is working.

[Scott]

Ya, the create offline thing had me. Also, when I tried before, using recompress, the clips still showed Photo JPEG in the compressor column in the browser window. I guess this is ignored when you batch capture the clips and specify the new codec in the batch capture dialog box.

[Scott]

Thanks, Josh.

What I actually ended up doing, in this case, was, rather than trying to animate the mask position per se, I instead created a simple solid layer, copied the mask shape to it, then applied the motion tracking to that solid layer’s position, and by playing with the transfer modes, found a nice highlight effect for the video layer underneath.

AE 5.5 evidently doesn’t let you animate the mask position, although you can animate mask shape. If I had a simple rectangle or other four corner mask, I could animate mask shape by using the corner pinning mode in the motion tracker, but for other shapes, it does not work as well.

[Scott]

Thanks, Josh.

What I actually ended up doing, in this case, was, rather than trying to animate the mask position per se, I instead created a simple solid layer, copied the mask shape to it, then applied the motion tracking to that solid layer’s position, and by playing with the transfer modes, found a nice highlight effect for the video layer underneath.

AE 5.5 evidently doesn’t let you animate the mask position, although you can animate mask shape. If I had a simple rectangle or other four corner mask, I could animate mask shape by using the corner pinning mode in the motion tracker, but for other shapes, it does not work as well.