Steve Roberts
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Here’s a previous cow post:
The best use of that box would be to set up a render using the “multi-machine” preset, then to save that project. Next, from the command line, launch 3 new instances of AE thusly:
“C:…Program Files…Adobe…After Effects 6.5…Support Files…AfterFX.exe” -m
(dots substitute for slashes here – COW don’ like no slashes)
Open the project in each instance and hit render.
Remember, this only works when rendering image sequences. When done, do a quick render of the sequence into a movie if you like.In other words, just add space-minus-m after the normal target path, but outside the quotes.
Steve
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Ah — I think I understand now. Glad you solved it.
Steve
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Orientation works that way. You need to use rotation.
If you rotate your camera, all 3D planes in the frame will appear to rotate, just like in real life.You might need to switch off auto-orient for your camera (layer>transform).
Hope that helps,
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Check the COW forum on Business and the forum on Broadcast Design. Search on “rates”.
Steve
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3D all the way. Some of the packages offer rigid-body dynamics, which is what you’re talking about. Unless you want to spend a lot of time doing this by hand, or you don’t need something realistic, or you’re capable of programming a complete rigid-body dynamics system, you shouldn’t try this in AE. 🙂
Steve
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3D all the way. Some of the packages offer rigid-body dynamics, which is what you’re talking about. Unless you want to spend a lot of time doing this by hand, or you don’t need something realistic, or you’re capable of programming a complete rigid-body dynamics system, you shouldn’t try this in AE. 🙂
Steve
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What is the frame rate of the sequence in FCP?
What is the frame rate of the clip as rendered out of FCP?
What is the frame rate of the clip as imported into AE? (look in the project window)
What is the frame rate of the comp in AE?
What is the frame rate in the Output Module settings?
What is the codec in the output module settings?Is your computer capable of playing back the final clip? Maybe it was compressed out of AE using the Animation codec, which would play badly on many computers.
Steve
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Did you search the COW posts on “KCHR”? This has come up before.
Steve
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That is correct. They do not come with the Academic version.
Bummer, huh?
S.
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You could be in for a world of hurt if you try to transfer AE files between two different versions of AE, since you can’t save from the newer version as an older version, and the effects used in the older version might break when imported into the newer version.
I don’t recommend getting the cheap desktop and running an older version of AE. Your productivity would go down, not up, in my opinion. If you want some of the benefits of a desktop, get a bigger monitor and some external Firewire drives.
Now if you want to add a card such as the Decklink, then you need a desktop, but I believe it has to be a G5.
Steve