Hasta La Motion!

I’m starting to learn composting and visual effects and wanted to learn how to add 3D footage to 2D as well. For now, the only thing that I would be intrested in animating is jets, vehicles and maybe people. The two programs I’m looking at is C4D and Maya. I would use PFTrack for motion tracking and then one of the two programs mentioned. I realize the price differnce, but without the price in mind, which is the best one for my needs? (I’m on a mac)

Thanks,
Zevie

Just stumbled upon this great message over at cmiVFX. Thanks Chris!!

For some reason, Nuke can’t make ups it mind to Cache or not.
For example,
I have a 262 frame timeline. I watched it slowly go thru all 262 frames. Then it went around again, and again. When I stoped it and then hit play, it cached up for the 1st 100 frames. I then watched it creep along to reach the end 262 frames. When it went around(again), the cached 100 frames were gone, and it was caching all over again! What gives?

I thought disk cache is like "geometry cache" in MAYA. Once you write it to disk, it plays perfectly.

Also, I used FLIPBOOK, and it seems to do the same thing. It slowly creeped along, then when it did cached up, it statred to run out of ram.
So, I am sooo confused.
And what’s this RAID drives? Would this help me?
Thanks,
Lou