[Thomas Leong]

Canopus’ Imaginate?

[Thomas Leong]

In terms of the weight of the camera, lens and tripod, the second last item in the review – the Sound Isol-Pods – seem to have the most potential.

[Thomas Leong]

AFAIK, Sound Recording Room Designers use Frequency Dampers (tuned springs?) to isolate external vibrations from a sound room, i.e. the whole room(s) is mounted on these springs such that a big truck rumbling by outside would not affect the sound in the room.

I did a search for “Frequency Dampers” and two seemingly relevant results are –

https://www.csaengineering.com/vibdamp/tmd.shtml

https://www.lord.com/tabid/3523/Default.aspx

Highly technical, and sounds expensive though.

best of luck,
Thomas Leong

[Thomas Leong]

Not Mac based, but you could have a look at Stumpfl’s Wings Platinum 3, which I use. The full working demo (except for output via the VGA out) is available for download. Further questions may be addressed to the English-based Wings forum set up by me at https://groups.yahoo.com/group/multidisplays

One of the main differences with Watchout is that The Master (Production PC for Watchout) can be used as the Slave (Display PC in Watchout) so you save one licence for your single screen show. And if you use a dual output graphics card, one output can be for the timeline, and the other sent to the projector in fullscreen mode.

Thomas Leong

[Thomas Leong]

I bought an earlier edition/version of “Color Correction with Avid Xpress” or something like that a few years ago for about $40. But I notice the new version is $200! It gave me a “how to read/apply software-based” scopes which I could use in my Canopus software.

Thomas Leong

[Thomas Leong]

hi,

If the Tune up suggestion did not work, then your next best bet is to look for a Restore Point before the moving of your harddrives. This usually owrks.

If there is no such Restore Point, then you could try this shot in the dark. It is a shot in the dark because the error message usually comes from the OS itself (XP) rather than the application. But it could be that the shifting of your SATA drives has left some “Hidden and Ghosted Generic Volumes” behind that is confusing the application.

Try at your own risk, though I often do this myself as a clean up process, and have not encountered any problems all this time. As long the “light grey” volumes are uninstalled by following the procedure below, there should be no problems, i.e. DO NOT uninstall the “dark grey” volumes –

1. CREATE A NEW ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE
Control Panel > Advance > Environment Variables > System Variable > New.
Variable Name: devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices
Variable value: 1
OK your way out.
A value of 0 will reset it to be non effective.

2. VIEWING AND UNINSTALLING HIDDEN AND GHOSTED DEVICES
– Make sure all the harddrives you want to work with/use are all connected and working
– Then in Device Manager > View > enable “show hidden devices”
– Scroll down Device Manager to “Storage Volumes” and you will see a list of Generic Volumes which are either dark grey or light grey. The dark grey ones are the volumes that are currently connected and working. The light grey ones are currently not connected, but are there because you did not Uninstall them before disconnecting previously. Usually these would be external USB drives, flash/thumbdrives, etc…but would also likely include the SATA drives in the new configuration you had before reverting back to original status.
– Right-click each ‘light grey’ Generic Volume, and Uninstall it.
– When all the ‘light grey’ Volumes are uninstalled, try booting AE and hopefully the error message you have been encountering will not be there.

You can also clean up/do the same if there are any things listed under a big Yellow ?.

Thomas Leong

[Thomas Leong]

This might solve it –

Import the PS file into AE, then in AE’s Project Window, just drag the PS file to the bottom of the Project Window to the Comp icon, and AE will auto create a comp to fit the PS file.

Thomas Leong

[Thomas Leong]

Try Trapcode’s Starglow plugin. It will do it, and more.

Thomas Leong

[Thomas Leong]

I’d recommend looking at multi-images/multi-views/multi picture-in-picture/multi-angles within a 1920×1080 comp instead….sort of giving the audience a wealth of high quality SD images to absorb within the same timeframe rather than one large lousy extrapolated image.

My 2 cents,
Thomas Leong

[Thomas Leong]

Other options are –

MediaEdge from Canopus

InfoBox from Box MicroSystems

Tycoon from Navori

Net-Top-Box from OneLan

InfoChannel from Scala

Thomas Leong