Simon Stutts
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Yeah – I’m not the tracking and numbers guy…I’m the motion graphics and design guy. 🙂
Our particular challenges include a wide array of skill levels, a large amount of work to do, and the need to help others who have an impact on our production schedules understand what can and can’t be done.
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Sorry I wasn’t very clear in the initial post. My brain doesn’t even really kick in until about noon.
What we’re specifically looking for is a way to figure out our production bandwidth: i.e. if we are basing it on a 10-hr day, and on average, staff member X can get done 10 hrs of work, but intern Y can only do 6hrs of work in the same time period (due to experience, skillsets, etc.), it becomes a very very time consuming task to figure out exactly how much production can move through the pipeline in a given time. Spread that across 40-60 people, and what starts as a fairly simple way to calculate personal bandwidth rapidly becomes stupefying. And then when changes pop up in the schedule, you have to recalculate, and then our production manager gets crushed.
We’ve used Basecamp and some other project-management tools, but we’re looking to see if we can track down a system or tool to help automate our production bandwidth estimates, taking into account variable skill levels.
Thanks!
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[grinner hester] “If it irritated me, I’d become a producer and get paid for shopping as my editor made my shows.”
Zing! 🙂
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From https://aeerrors.myleniumstuff.de/
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December 13th, 2008Message text:
After Effects error: Photoshop file format error — unexpected end-of-file (-39).
Message interpretation:
The image file is truncated prematurely.
Possible causes:
When saving a file it is possible that the process is terminated prematurely either because of a crash or a miscalculation of the file size on the disk by the saver module. On some file types this can be noticed as missing or black pixels, while the rest of the image is still being displayed. Less robust formats will be completely unusable afterwards.
Resolution or workaround:
Opening the file in another program like Adobe Photoshop and saving it from there in the same or another image format might allow you to use the data.”
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Illusions, Michael.
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Seen this before, but a pretty cool video none the less. Mindblowing to see how exponentially technology has been advancing.
I’m a bit dubious as to some of their “facts,” though – how does one measure the computational power of the human brain, exactly? Is that even knowable?
And I think it’s a bit of a misleading thing to say, anyway – even if a computer had the sheer computational power of a human brain, I would think that it means very little until you crack the software gap. Lots of stuff that’s simple and natural for our minds to accomplish is by no means an easy thing to tell a computer how to do reliably.
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Fake 3D with the Beam effect…
https://aefreemart.com/2007/07/11/3d-beam/But it sounds like what you really need is to pick up a plug-in called Trapcode Lux.
https://www.trapcode.com/products_lux.html
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/trapcode-lux/ -
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You sure that’s not just your system hiccuping during playback?
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On a tangential note…
The Talk to Chuck ads were originally done by these guys.
https://www.flatblackfilms.com/
They’re using proprietary software (“Rotoshop”) – it’s the same software and team that did “Waking Life” and “A Scanner Darkly.” (although according to their website, C. Schwab replaced them on the latest batch of spots with a cheaper lookalike competitor…)
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