Sean Maloney
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Found your post doing a Google search for the same problem. Then found a solution that worked for me. Try this:
Go to File–>Project Settings
Check the box that reads “Match Legacy After Effects Quicktime Gamma Adjustments”Hope that helps (months later)
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I’m pretty sure it will only let you activate 2 copies of the software on different computers using the same serial number. You should be able to run both installations on networked computers simultaneously, but I don’t think it’s allowed in the strict interpretation of the user agreement. All of this only applies to Retail licenses, the terms of use may be different for Corporate licensing. You’d have to check with Adobe.
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Brilliant! Thank you so much!!
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About what I was thinking. Thanks Walter.
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What do you mean by “transferred and reinstalled”? You can’t just copy the files from one plug-in folder to the other, you’ll have to run the installers and point them to CS3. According to the Trapcode website, all current versions (make sure you’re running the latest) should run in CS3 on PowerPC. MacTel versions for CS3 don’t look like they’re available yet.
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What about working the other way around? Do a rough edit of your stills in Avid to get the timing down then export an AAF from Avid to AE. If you use only flattened images in Avid, you can then substitute the layered files for the proxies.
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[Dave LaRonde] Digibeta (and many other codecs like DVCPro) have exactly 4-2-2 color resolution.
Actually, to be clear, DVCPro is 4:1:1 because it’s just DV25 like MiniDV or DVCam. DVCPro50 is 4:2:2. I’m sure Dave knew that though.
Sean
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Hi Matt-
Thank you so much for the speedy response. I’ll contact you via email.
Sean
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I can’t speak from personal experience, since I’ve never used an ATI card with AE, but if you look at the chart on the Adobe website you’ll see that the Radeon X1000 Series has an asterisk next to the check mark for high-fidelity support, indicating that it doesn’t support OpenGL previews of anti-aliasing and 2D motion blur. I just think you’ll have better luck with an NVidia card – Adobe (and many other video equipment manufacturers) seem to prefer them over ATI. You may want to browse the Decklink forum, I think they also recommend NVidia. You don’t have to get the biggest, baddest card. The FX1500 looks like a great deal at around $500 (Newegg.com).
If you’re serious about working in uncompressed 10-bit HD, don’t skimp on any components in your system. You may want to look into the AJA Xena LHe as an alternative to the Decklink. I have a Kona LH in my Mac and I love it. It’s been rock solid. Whichever card you go with, make sure you check the manufacturer’s website for “certified” motherboards or search the forums to see which boards are working for people. Get quality RAM and a lot of it (2gb bare minimum). Get as many processors as you can afford – a single quad-core or 2 dual-cores. You’re going to need a monster RAID array – at least 8 drives and I’d highly recommend some kind of redundancy (RAID 5). You can build it yourself to save some $.
You can contact me at sean(at)pix(dot)eliri(dot)us if you’d like me to share my experiences and thoughts on building an “affordable” HD system.
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https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/opengl.html
I can only imagine that Adobe will continue to develop the OpenGL capabilities of the software as it develops new versions, so I would say get the best card you can afford. The NVidia QuadroFX line would probably be ideal.