way to improve real time?

is there a plug-in or hardware to improve to more real time features? i have a lot of exports from ae and it seems i always have to render that media as well as other transitions, efx, etc - is there any way to bolster the system?

thx seth

g5-2.5ghz 3.5gb ram fcp4.5

Consult the manual. It has many ideas on how to manage renders

Mike

but can you purchase anything to beef up the real-time capability? i guess thats what i was trying to ask...

No. Cinewave helped with their FX and it's likely in the future that we will see FX go to the GPU much like Motion, but for now, you just manage renders best you can.

mike

what id like to see is a way to to get movies (with alpha channel intact) from AE go into FCP without re-rendering...

Wayne, as long as you render out of AE into the codec you are using to edit in FCP there should be no re-rendering.

yeah, that part i understand. the problem in the phrase"with alpha channel intact". to my knowledge (and its been through the froum ringer here and at adobe) there is no export codec common to AE and FCP that doesnt flatten the alpha channel.

unless something has changed in the last 3 months or so that im not aware of...

You try exporting your footage, then exporting the alpha channel separatley as a matte. Maybe?

-T

thats something i hadnt considered. i'll give that a shot - you may have just become my best friend!

wayne granzin wrote:

> thats something i hadnt considered. i'll give that a shot - you
> may have just become my best friend!


HA! I hope so!

-T

My first thought was also to export the matte separatley, but the more I think about it I think that I may have discovered a possible caveat. To apply the matte in FCP, you'd have to use a composite mode, right? In FCP no compostie mode is RT. So unless there is another way to apply a matte, unfortunatley I don't think that'd work. Hope you two can still be best friends though. ;-)

-Harry