Steve Roberts
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AE can track points in footage, but it has no idea where those points are in 3D space — it only sees in 2D. In other words, it cannot take the tracked motion and create a 3D solution.
I recommend you use a 3D tracker such as Syntheyes and bring the tracked data into AE or a 3D app. Syntheyes has an AE export module.
Steve
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AE 6.5 has a “remove grain” plug built-in. You might need to install it separately from the install CD.
It was bought (licensed?) from Visual Infinity, the makers of the Grain Surgery plugins, and it analyzes the existing noise to come up with a custom noise removal scheme for that footage. It works rather well, compared to other solutions …
… that I know of. 🙂
Steve
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Until AE gets reprogrammed to use 64-bit Operating Systems, and you’re running a 64-bit OS as well, AE can not use more than 2 GB of RAM. It’s a 32-bit OS thing, apparently.
It’s my understanding that AE only uses as much RAM as it has to, and using more RAM won’t speed up your workflow — it will only allow you longer RAM previews prevent renders from crashing, and probably avoid disk caching when you fill up your RAM(though I’ve never seen that).
If you can RAM preview all the frames you want, and your renders aren’t crashing for lack of RAM, then you have all the RAM you can use, in my opinion. Until AE gets 64-bit aware, that is. Have you found that AE won’t let you RAM preview your entire work area, but still shows that it is using 60% of your RAM?
Steve
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Those features don’t work with OpenGL as AE has implemented it. Maybe that will change with the next version, maybe not. 🙂
Steve
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Search the COW Business Forum then post there.
Steve
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Have you tried deselecting “proportional spacing”?
Steve
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Have you tried the exact same project in both workstations? All settings exactly the same? What happens?
We need to find out what is different between the two situations.
Steve
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No need for nasty caps, radek. You mentioned the “realtime RAM preview”, and there’s no such thing, as you just confirmed in your second post. You compared AE’s playback to Premiere Pro, so I assumed you came from an editing background. Many editors assume that hitting the spacebar starts a preview in AE. 🙂
Did you try hitting the 0 key on the numeric keypad, with numLock on?
Did you try hitting the RAM preview button on the time controls window?Steve
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Yeah, that’s some kind of bug.
– download AE 6.5.1
– save incrementally under a new name: project01, project02 … it’s good insurance
– you might need to relaunch.Steve
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How are you playing the preview? Don’t use the spacebar. Use the RAM preview button in the time controls palette. It’s not possible with today’s hardware to get a real-time preview. It will play at full frame rate, but you need to wait for frames to render. Check the manual for specifics.
It’s the nature of the compositing beast, unless you have $750,000 worth of Discreet hardware.
If you’re still having trouble, get back to us.
Steve