Hi,
I've been trying out smoke 2013 ext 1 on my mac pro with a blackmagic decklink hd extreme 3d.
Things are mostly going well, but I do have a few questions.
1) When inserting to a tape (HDCAM) I set an in point and out point in the timeline around the clips I want to insert.
When smoke does the insert it correctly cues the tape but incorrectly puts the media at the start of the timeline at the selected timepoint, not the clips between the in and out points.
I have been making subclips and inserting these sequences to get this happening but just wondering if there was a way to do this correctly ... am I doing something wrong or is it how smoke does things?
2) About making subclips .... is it possible to predict where smoke 2013 will put the subclip. It seems to pick folders to put them into with no pattern that I can see.
Can I select a folder to make these subclips in, e.g. logging bin FCP style?
3) Also I was wondering about rendering text .... simple text over a black background ... it seems to take far longer than I would expect, 3 minutes for 20 seconds of unanimated text ... (FCP takes 5-10 seconds to do the same thing ... I know ... apples and oranges etc but just wondering )
More text questions:
4) Is there an option to make text bold?
5) I have also tried recreating text previously made in Photoshop and gotten very different visual results for the same fonts ..... is smoke doing things drastically different from photoshop with certain fonts? (american typewriter for example)
6) Zooming in .... cmd+, zooms really slowly ... shift-z is great for zooming out but even ctrl +alt and dragging seems slow for zooming ..... any tips?
Thanks for any help / explanations of what is going on 🙂
Ben
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I recorded a short video for you.
You might try this work around for the text. Once you get the hang of it, you can do it alot faster than rendering text in Avid or FCP 7.
If your render speeds aren't as fast as the ones in this video you might upgrade your storage. I am running 6 drives striped at raid 0, and am getting upwards around 570MB/s, and I have also installed a Mercury Accelsior as my system drive. Which really seemed to speed things up. Smoke and Flame are all about fast storage.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/PCIe/OWC/Mercury_Accelsior/RAID
Smoke Classic Hot keys, used.
Alt+F+drag= copy selected frame.
Shift+Tab= Fx Tab.
Shift+3 = Timeline Tab.
Shift+4 = Tools Tab.
Thanks for the responses!
It seems that whenever I select a clip/sequence for the source player and the clip is selected with a green arrow that that folder is the active folder? At least I can find my subclips now 🙂
I haven't had a chance to try and test the fonts since, busy week, but will give it a try next week. I think it was a problem with american typewriter being a font suitcase?
With CMD + & CMD - to zoom into a 10 second clip from a 1 hour sequence take 10-15 presses, in FCP the same happens in 5 or so ..... only a small gripe 🙂 I will try dragging the pen quicker 🙂
Another few questions :
Is there a way to review/alter strokes made in the paint node? I have used the eraser side of my tablet pen to erase (which is awesome) but just wondering if it was possible to see a wireframe view of what I have done / select / edit some of the strokes?
Is it possible to change a stroke from cur frame to all frames or does it just have to be re-done?
Can I change the feather of a paint stroke ... color and clone all seem to keep the same fether no matter how much I change the fade etcit stays the same?
About project archive, my archive is now 200GB .... I have told it to archive links only .... I guess I am doing something wrong?
It is 3 x 1 hour sequences, prores HD media and some offline sequences with no attached media?
Thanks again!
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