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| | | | News: The Foundry and Luxology Join Forces
by Cow News Droid on Sep 25, 2012 at 8:41:53 pm
in the NEWS: Product News Releases Forum
Combined group will provide a new avenue for computer graphics production
(London, UK--September 25, 2012) Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry, today announced its merger with Luxology. The two companies are a great fit in terms | | | | |
| | | | Re: Delete Render Files in Autodesk Smoke
by Brian Mulligan on Sep 5, 2012 at 11:55:52 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
Smoke is funky ometimes as to when it wants to refresh the frames on the framestore...normally it would happen on reboot as as background check runs called VIC or volume integrity check.
Sometimes you get get a refresh by force purge and switching | | | | |
| | | | Re: Delete Render Files in Autodesk Smoke
by Brian Mulligan on Sep 5, 2012 at 3:14:04 am
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
Based in where you posted I am assuming you are in 2012. Once you unrender frames they become unmanaged on the framestore even though they aren't instantly deleted. They will normally get removed and freed when smoke restarts and VIC runs. You can | | | | |
| | | | Re: Framestore "is slow"
by Alan Maiden on Jul 19, 2012 at 4:41:23 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
I don't see it should be a problem set up this way, for me the main thing is not to let the disks really get above 75% full. I find once you exceed that the disks start to scatter and that's when the smoke struggles to give real-time playback, especi | | | | |
| | | | Re: Framestore "is slow"
by David Jahns on Jul 17, 2012 at 3:29:07 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
Yeah - that totally worked for these clips. My drive was about 80% full - is that when you typically start seeing issues?
One other question...
When I set up this Smoke-Mac, I used an existing 8 TB RAID as my FrameStore, so it created the Auto | | | | |
| | | | Re: Framestore "is slow"
by Alan Maiden on Jul 17, 2012 at 8:20:51 am
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
I've had this issue when my framestore is getting full and it is 'scattering' the media. Sometimes a fresh render cures it and renders it in one stream to the raid rather than it having to find all the 'scattered' renders! | | | | |
| | | | Re: Framestore "is slow"
by Brian Mulligan on Jul 7, 2012 at 12:18:17 am
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
I have gotten that when I had a drive go out on my Linux Framestore Raid and there wasn't enough bandwidth to push the video.
perhaps you have a drive failing slowly. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Framestore "is slow"
by Brian Mulligan on Jul 7, 2012 at 12:18:17 am
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
I have gotten that when I had a drive go out on my Linux Framestore Raid and there wasn't enough bandwidth to push the video.
perhaps you have a drive failing slowly. | | | | |
| | | | Framestore "is slow"
by David Jahns on Jul 7, 2012 at 12:10:38 am
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
Started encountering lots of dropped frames when working in the timeline, and even a failed layoff to tape, but the CLIP OUTPUT module helpfully informed me that my "framestore is slow".
My AJA System test says I'm getting 500-600 MB per sec, and | | | | |
| | | | Re: Blog: 101 Burning Questions Answered about Smoke 2013
by Brian Mulligan on Jun 20, 2012 at 6:14:43 pm
in the COW - Blogs Forum
[David Jahns] "For example, if you create a media space on the netowrk for a project - can multiple Smoke users link to that same space? Do they share the same Autodesk Media Folder? Or does each user have their own read/write volume for all Smoke pr | | | | |
| | | | Re: Smoke: A Journey and a Look Ahead
by Brian Mulligan on Jun 4, 2012 at 9:14:01 pm
in the COW - Tutorials Forum
Nice article. Hopefully people will read on and get to the 2013 section and not be scared off by the images and workflow issues with 2012 that you pointed out.
A few things... Smoke 2013 work swell with Prores footage and with proxies on my i7 2. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Boated Framestore
by Brian Mulligan on May 31, 2012 at 9:22:17 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
Most of the time that material won't come back until you restart and VIC runs to clear it. You can in Preferences>Storage hit the force purge button and it should toss the frames.
Was this material at all in any other project?
Also look in /us | | | | |
| | | | Boated Framestore
by David Possien on May 31, 2012 at 7:49:47 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
In an effort to free up space on my framestore I am archiving off old projects and deleting them when the archive is complete. In the "modify project" drop down, I am choosing to delete the entire project including all media, setups, ect. When I chec | | | | |
| | | | NAB 2012: GenArts
by Debra Kaufman on Apr 27, 2012 at 5:31:08 pm
in the Genarts Sapphire Edge Forum
At NAB 2012, GenArts showcased its newest products: Sapphire version 6 and Monsters GT version 7, both of which offer visual effects artists a wide variety of effects available on numerous platforms. The company also announced the imminent release of | | | | |
| | | | @Juan Salvo
by Walter Soyka on Apr 23, 2012 at 1:35:09 am
in the COW - Tutorials Forum
Thanks, Juan. I was under the impression from my conversations in the show floor that they were regular QuickTime movies, but single-frame movies are obviously more in keeping with the traditional Smoke framestore. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Back-ups
by Brian Mulligan on Feb 2, 2012 at 7:34:35 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
First off, I always work with History on.
When I archive I simple unrender my timeline and archive just the final edit sequence. This edit has history so all of my clips are present as well as all of my setups.
My video clips mostly come form P2 | | | | |
| | | | Re: media export problems
by Brian Mulligan on Nov 13, 2011 at 6:03:45 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
Make sure everything is processed. This will make sure that everything is processed dpx frames on your framestore.
Take your edit, add a Layer, place a CC effect in the gap, and process this. It will process a null effect, but will render it a | | | | |
| | | | Re: media export problems
by Brian Mulligan on Nov 13, 2011 at 6:02:28 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
Make sure everything is processed. This will make sure that everything is processed dpx frames on your framestore.
Take your edit, add a Layer, place a CC effect in the gap, and process this. It will process a null effect, but will render it a | | | | |
| | | | Re: Audio out of Sync in Smoke.
by Brian Mulligan on Nov 1, 2011 at 5:11:58 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
That makes me think that your storage can not keep up with the frames.
When you process the clip it makes new frames on your framestore. These might be uncompressed DPX frames. And you storage might not be able to playback at the speed.
In pr | | | | |
| | | | Re: Cannot edit Smoke Setup config file
by robert coulin on Oct 25, 2011 at 12:38:07 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
hi,
cant you make any changes, or is it just the framestore entry?
could be a permission thing?
you could change it "manually" in the stone+wire.cfg, but im not quite sure, where this is sitting on the mac (in linux its /usr/discreet/sw/stone+ | | | | |
| | | | Re: Proxy editing on Smoke
by Brian Mulligan on Sep 4, 2011 at 2:45:51 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
Depending on where you source material is... YES.
My station shoots P2 and we store the raw clips on USB hard drives. I then use the Gateway to import the clips, but just point to the media on the usb drive. Now USB won't play HD in real time, so | | | | |
| | | | Re: After Effects vs Autodesk Smoke
by Walter Soyka on Aug 18, 2011 at 2:40:21 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
[Martin Thygesen] "So my boss said he heard someone saying that the colors and the way that smoke treats images results in 10 - 15 % better images, how can i dispute that in the most "professional" manner, without just getting angry ?"
That's a ve | | | | |
| | | | Re: transfer preference and project between volume
by andi no on May 5, 2011 at 3:53:41 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke Forum
Hi Brian, thanx a lot for the info. It really helps a lot. Btw i got another case where i cannot remove the project ( never found this problem before ), everytime i try to delete project , i always got crash. So i try manually delete /usr/discreet/pr | | | | |
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