Steve Pankow
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Got it. We use 5.4 as standalone only and 5.1.5 as both standalone and FCP plugin as I guess there’s some sort of compatibility problem with 5.4/FCP7/10.6.8 that BorisFX identified. I’ve been having odd behavior all day with random crashes on other 5.4 projects, but I’ll try and remember Caps Lock before doing anything first. Any chance this is a bug that will be patched up in the future?
Happy New Year
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Now I’m finding that RED hung when it attempted to render my 4 second comp. Force quitting and then attempting to reopen only causes RED to crash. I really didn’t think this was pushing the system too hard, but now I have no idea. Here’s a link to the .red file:
And the problem report:
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Hi Jon,
Thanks for the reply. Are you saying Field Rendering and 1:2:1 impact preview speed while working on a comp, or speed up the final render? I’m not worried about the latter, but I’m finding just working in a project often feels sluggish compared to my ancient dual core XW8000 with Nvidia 980.
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Sorry to add onto an old thread, but I thought this might help others in the future. I had a similar situation using the Glow Through behavior in Motion 4 where the glow pops off at the end. I went into the font’s Style tab, turned on Glow and set the radius to 0. This eliminated the abrupt glow pop problem while preserving the behavior’s look.
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Well, 5.1.5 as FCP7 plugin works as expected and 5.3 standalone doesn’t have the problem either, so I guess I’ll have to work with it that way.
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It was the RT. Don’t know how that got changed. Thanks.
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Cleared out the problem fonts, which did include some of the Zurich family that is used in the project, but the crash behavior didn’t change. I’ll get in touch. Thanks.
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Just wanted to say that I found this to be a very interesting discussion.
I’ll bet Avid wants to make all of these changes, but given finite engineering resources many things probably get pushed down the list all the time.
I wonder if backwards compatibility makes updating more difficult given that their core code is around 20 years old. Does anyone think Avid could pull off a fresh-slate piece of software that learns from and leapfrogs its competitors?
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Hi Jeppe,
I did find the .red file. Although it uses a couple of large 400MB files for reflection tracks, I changed them over to gradients and the effect is quite similar. Everything else is self-contained. I’ll try attaching it to this post.
https://f1.creativecow.net/5112/red-3d-demo-file
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Hi Jeppe,
I don’t know what version of RED you’re on, but as the creator of that animation (I think that’s Tim Wilson narrating though) I can send you the project file and associated materials if you want to mess around with it, assuming I can still find it.
I think I was using a .mov file of some dots or something I made for the reflection/environment track on the text and rings. Peter’s right in that you jack up the shininess and reflectivity settings to help with that look. Blast from the past – that was done about 7 years ago.
Steve