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• Recieved Action Essentials 2 in the mail today. Now to make an over the top action movie! #

The highlights for my first HD project. This was shot on a Sony XDCAM Ex3 which is file based HD.

The workflow is pretty simple but kind of a pain when it comes time for output.

Ingesting the media is simple. In Avid MC 4 all you have to do is copy the footage to your HDD then in Avid go to File -> Import AMA volume and select your folder. Its a pretty quick and easy process.

In Avid MC 3 you have to export your clips from Sony Clip Browser as MXF files and then import them into Avid. This takes forever if you have a lot of media.

For outputting you have 2 options.

1. If you are outputting back to tape (such as DvCam) You have to make a video mixdown to SD res and then output from that. This can also be done for outputting to Dvd or Blu-ray (HD mixdown) as it is quicker than option 2

2. Export Quicktime movie - I haven’t experimented to much with this but a 2 min video exported at full HD res came in at 15gbs.

Option 1 gave me a lot of problems, I kept getting decompression errors but was able to get rid of most of them by switching back and forth from timelines and freeing up some HDD space seemed to help as well. But in the end I had 1 frame that kept getting the error no matter what I did, so I ended up having cover it up with another shot.

Farm House

Out for a nice fall drive today and got this nice old farm house. The great thing is that this wasn’t the original reason for stopping to take photos.

Created in C4D 11.5 using the new Mograph Rigid Body tag.

I am still amazed at how easy these are to setup and how quick they are to render.

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• RT @motionworks Cinema 4D: The Compositing Tag | Motionworks http://tinyurl.com/5pmtxm – An old tip but very valuable information #
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Have you ever been working on a complex scene that was causing your scene to slow down and not play back in real time.
If you are using a gfx card that supports OpenGL it can be used to help accelerate your scene. To do this go to Display -> Enhanched OpenGL

The GFX card can be used to render the transparency, shadows, post effects and noise channels when you are working in your scene.

EnhancedOpenGL

Have you ever moved your camera in a weird way that caused you to not be able to get back to view your scene?

Here is an easy way to fix that. Click Edit, then click Frame Scene. Its as easy as that.

Frame Scene