[Scot Walker]

I don’t have a Decklink, but I have a dual 2.5 Ghz G5 with 6800 Ultra and it’s definitely not sluggish for me. Most is in real time. In some places, I have too much going on to be real time so I then revert to working like I work in AE all the time — render RAM preview.

Make sure you have all your updates because there was a Pro Application Support 3 update recently that will affect Motion.

[Scot Walker]

Yeah, I shouldn’t have posted such a provocative title, I guess.

I did the Upgrade install.

Immediately, my sound was hosed because Tiger changed my Audio MIDI Setup audio out setting to 33Khz. I had to research this at Apple and then found the fix.

For whatever reason, exporting my existing project didn’t work from Motion or from Compressor.

Today, I trashed the preferences of Motion, Compressor, Batch and it seems to be working now, at least using Compressor. I haven’t tried Exporting out of Motion, but I prefer Compressor.

Thanks.

[Scot Walker]

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301198

Tiger may change your sound output to 33000.0 Hz when you upgrade. If it does, existing projects that were created with 44.1 Hz will not play the audio.

To fix, launch Audio MIDI Setup, which is in the Utilities folder. Look over at the right where it says Audio Output and make sure your format is set to whatever you had before (44.1 Hz is the default, I believe).

[Scot Walker]

I have the same card on a dual 2.5 Ghz G5 and I noticed that it’s significantly slower when two monitors are connected to the 6800. I didn’t notice it until I started a project that has around 20 layers and has audio VO (which syncs fine for me, BTW). So it seems that Motion is only recognizing 128 megs of VRAM (256 split by two monitors) and you won’t notice a difference until you hit that 128 meg limit? A guess. Others have mentioned it splits your VRAM too.

PCIe would be nice since two cards in SLI combine your VRAM. How’s 512 megs of VRAM for you? 🙂

[Scot Walker]

Has everyone noticed that this ATI video card isn’t an option when you buy a new G5 from Apple? Anyone know why?

[Scot Walker]

I’m hoping that this is resolved with Motion 2, because this is a bug, not normal behavior.

I have an old PCI Radeon card that I’m using for my second monitor, but now my Expos

[Scot Walker]

Wonderful!

Thanks,
Scot

[Scot Walker]

I went back and found what I was thinking of and it was MotionMath, like you said. It was included with the AE5 CD.

Thanks for the info!

[Scot Walker]

Oh, we’re cool. I just wanted to point out I mentioned an easy way to do it in AE.

I remember a tutorial from long ago using Expressions where the mouth of a cartoon character was animated automatically by linking the scale of a simple mouth (oval shape) to the audio levels of the voice over track. It worked really well. No key frames needed, it just animates on-the-fly to whatever the audio is doing in the designated layer at that exact moment. It was pretty cool. Of course, this method only really works if an oval or circle mouth works for you. If you want different mouth artwork for the different phonetic sounds, you have to do something else (Toon Boom has tools for this more advanced mouth animation).

The plug-in you mentioned sounds cool.

[Scot Walker]

I mentioned Expressions in my post. You’ve always been able to tie the volume level data to any parameter you want in AE.