[Stephen Ong]

Thanks this was one thing I thought might be able to be corrected in post by a colour editor over the other end but maybe it’s best I keep an eye on it. We’re using illustrator vectors and i know there is a red in the brand palette, but i’m pretty sure it’s quite a dull red.

Does the same apply to white and black, I had heard this before?

[Stephen Ong]

Sticks ‘59.94’ post it note to monitor…

Thanks again!

[Stephen Ong]

Thanks,
Good start, a slight relief!

I should say my client is a freelance Creative Director delivering to his client, so he will be writing the scripts, he has a writing background in advertising, so non-technical. It’s very open as in his client corresponds with myself too, so we all know what’s going on. I am purely creative, so I stick to the animation and design and try not get too involved in production, due to time, and to me producing is my idea of hell…
so I really want to avoid doing a lot of what you’ve mentioned (handling the colouring in UK etc.)

So in that sense It’s more making sure my basics are right here, which thank you is exactly what you’ve answered with that frame rate part. Audio wise they are unsure on stock or a score at the moment, but I wont be hiring / paying for that. Essentially I am just animation, no production is going through me.

Then your other points considered maybe we need to hire a US producer who is experienced in TV to work this out his side and ensure we’re hiring the right people over there. If I’m good supplying a 59.97 1920 x 1080 and someone can be paid to fix it up over there then that suits me fine.

Fortunately as well the project is full animation no live action, it’s a 2D stylised illustration piece, so the frame rate my end is just determined by me, no headaches from footage. Audio we might be getting done by a guy i know but we might.

Thanks again for your answer, very helpful.

[Stephen Ong]

Thanks guys, that’s reassuring,

There was no stipulation I would supply the production files, just an end product, they paid me a flat fee for.

They’re a nice client but <5% of my income in 2014, which is the last time I worked for them, no work in 2015, they’re print and web agency really, not video / animation, which is probably why they never asked for backups, all my vid production clients take backups and archive. I actually work for their client through a vid production company as well.

I did offer the discount earlier today, the owner then came back seeming annoyed and trying to proportion most of the blame to me for not keeping the working files, and trying to get even more discount on me recreating the project, which annoyed me a little and is why I’ve ended up here.

Thanks again,

[Stephen Ong]

Thanks that’s great, I have a series of 4 more to do, and they all follow the same concept so that actually helps no end,

[Stephen Ong]

I’ve animated the stroke on 9 different mask paths with ‘stroke sequential’ on, so it animates out in order.

I’ve also animated the shapes of the mask paths, so the stroke reveal also morphs as well as revealing the stroke, all the mask paths join at points.
Is it still possible to paste the mask path into the position, I assume it’s not as the path changes shape and is keyframed?

[Stephen Ong]

100GB free, it does prompt me that there isn’t enough space when I open up AE, but I think this is because it’s eaten into some of the 256GB max I’ve set.
Would it just assume it shouldn’t write to cache as there’s tons of RAM but my multi-processing settings are set up incorrectly so it’s taking a while?

I’ve been reading through the Adobe settings and am keeping aside around a quarter of my RAM for other things, then assigning the remaining RAM assigned across the background processes. Not going crazy and assigning everything to AE and starving the machine.

[Stephen Ong]

Thanks Walter,

We aren’t expecting real-time, just every time we head back to a previously cached sequence it seems to need to re-render completely, which takes around 5 minutes, even though it had already been cached (the blue) previously. I’m going to try the force caching you suggested, this is why i’m surprised the SSD has only used 25GB on the project, even though it’s been set to use the full drive, thought maybe it could cache a whole project as it was, then re-cache frames when I shift individual frames around,

Cached areas will RAM preview in well under a minute, which is fine just annoying that these disappear after a while.

Would having the project on separate disk to the photos help? Maybe having all three on separate SSDs, we have a few SSDs available?

I guess the other solution is we charge more days next time for rendering downtime!

[Stephen Ong]

I’m not using an external USB anywhere, not sure where you read that.

I’m using an external HDD drive with a thunderbolt for the photos and an external SSD with thunderbolt for the media cache.