pixade
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Post by pixade on Oct 13, 2004 11:58:43 GMT -8
does anyone know if there's a quick and easy way to preview your shot in AE? i tried RAM preview, and that takes forever! then i have to save it as an avi just to see it play in realtime and that takes forever too ... is compositing that CPU/memory extensive? my clip is only 26 sec.
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Post by Garrett on Oct 23, 2004 19:17:22 GMT -8
YOu guys are doing the correct stuff. AFX is not real-time by any means. However you can just press the play button and depending on how much RAM you have it will play through. However, it's nowhere close to being in real time. Maybe like 2 fps.. ha ha! There is a lot to consider whn rendering out your movies.. it all depends on your compression, resolution.. how many effects you have, etc. The only thing I have played around with that is realtime is Final Cut (using Real-time extreme) and Motion. Motion is very cool.. but it depends on your hardware immensely!
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Post by derkash on Oct 26, 2004 17:54:56 GMT -8
Hey Peter, If you want to play back your video in AE just turn down the resolution in the comp window. You can view your preview at full, half, third, and a quarter of the full resolution. Your computer should have enough ram to run it at a third. The picture isn't quit as good but it will give you a general idea. If this isn't working you just might have to render out a movie at 360x240 like you are allready doing. Or maybe render just your background plate at 360x240 and put that back in AE just while you work on the project and then replace the footage later.
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Post by Garrett on Oct 27, 2004 11:45:28 GMT -8
Good call Derkash! I totally forgot about that setting.. I should use it myself more often!! Except I hate using it.. because I like to see everything in all it's glory!! Hmm.. that made so sense!?
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johnb4467
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"That which does not kill us, makes us stronger." -Nietzsche
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Post by johnb4467 on Oct 29, 2004 11:05:41 GMT -8
What codec are the majority of you using to render out your final movies? I've been using sorenson 3, and while it does a pretty good job...it seems like it changes the color profile to a green tint.
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Post by Garrett on Oct 31, 2004 9:35:44 GMT -8
Yeah.. I use Sorenson 3 as well. It does darken everything a bit, but it gives the fastest and most accurate playback, I think. Most likely we won't be burdened by this in the working world.
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johnb4467
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Post by johnb4467 on Nov 3, 2004 20:37:14 GMT -8
yeah usually just tga or tiff sequences, no? Actually what do companies do when they 'pass off' a final shot to the main film company as a final composite?
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Post by Vince De Quattro on Nov 5, 2004 0:15:24 GMT -8
yeah usually just tga or tiff sequences, no? Actually what do companies do when they 'pass off' a final shot to the main film company as a final composite? yeah, film fx companies dump frames, in either .tiff, .rla, .tga or other higher bit depth file formats. if you staying on the dv side, the DV/DVCPRO codec is lossi, but the ANIMATION codec (while creating huge files) is lossless. quicktime will throw away pixels to keep the baked animation speed as high as possible.
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johnb4467
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Post by johnb4467 on Nov 5, 2004 16:32:44 GMT -8
is the dv/dvcpro codec very lossy? It doesn't seem as much as compared to other codecs...but of course the bit rate is much, much higher... So would a company like ILM just pass off like 50 HUGE external hard drives to Lucasfilm...I mean considering the amount of shots they do for episode 1, 2, and 3...the disk space alone must have been LUDICROUS!
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