Jan 30

Mac Graphics Card Upgrade Question

Posted in: Hardware & Tech Talk
I have a MacPro 3,1 with a geforce 8800GT in it…the card is starting to show its age. The only upgrade cards Apple has available is the GT120 which is worse than what I have, the ATI 5770 which is a lot better, and the ATI 5870 which is a LOT LOT better.

Anyone have any of these cards that could make an informed suggestion…or maybe even someone that knows of a PC card that works amazingly in a Mac? I have read that the ATI 6970 will run on Bootcamp but not on Mac side….so that would be great to have the added support in Windows…but I really want the power Mac side too…but the 5870 is a 2 year old card and at this point pretty outdated.

Also if anyone knows of a way to force Mac to work with a better card, like the 6970 or preferably an Nvidia card I am all ears!

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Jan 30

alpha merge problem

Posted in: Digital Fusion / DFX+
Hi everybody,

I’m pretty new to node compositing, I was trying to composite some fumefx with debris, rendering it separated from smoke.
I thought that using a matte material on debris (that rotates around the fume) was the good way to do it, but when I started merging channels in fusion I had this problem:

and this is the correct alpha from the beauty pass, with debris and fume in the same render:

I hope someone can help me with this problem 🙂

Thank you in advance,

Matteo

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Jan 30

Autumn 3D cartoon (maya)

Posted in: Gallery
hi all!
this is my first work posting here on vfxtalk.
it is not as good as the works here,but i would like u all to see it and tell me where i can improve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEbX6hhglOk

regards
vj

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Jan 30

Some Of My Tests

Posted in: Work in Progress (WiP)
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Jan 30

Combine backpacking with vfx-work? (India)

Posted in: The Pad
I’m having fleeting thoughts about backpacking in India for a few weeks this summer and I thought it would be really cool to combine that with doing some vfx-work. Not for money, but for experience.

So my question is how hard that would be.
Is it legal to do that with a turist-visum
Is it hard to get a temporary vfx-job (a few days)
Do they employ foreigners
etc
etc

I’m a 23 year old swedish compositing student, and thus have no real world working experience. But I’m perfectly capabale and willing to do rotowork.

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Jan 30

BEST THREADS OF ALL TIME LIST – MUST READ

Posted in: Professional Talk
Ask the Freelance Artist:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/ask-fre…st-t21054.html

Ask the Junior Artist:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/ask-jun…31.html?t=4331

Ask the Senior Artist:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/ask-sen…st-t20910.html

Good discussion of rates in US/CA/UK:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/salary-…ry-t18102.html

And then Aruna’s vfxwage.com thread. Not so much for the thread, but for the link to vfxwages:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/vfxwages-com-t17424.html

What to do when you don’t get paid (Varun’s Post is the solution to this thread):
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/do-if-e….html?p=135259

Batch Nuke Rendering (Mac):
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/automat…pt-t10297.html

And Good ol’ Andrew with his magical render scripts of awesome:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/renderq….html?p=141053
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/drag-an….html?p=126547

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Jan 30

alpha / color / color+alpha

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
Hi,
Is it possible to suppress the alpha directly from the footage in Nuke ? (I see nothing in the read node.)
in combustion you select the footage and can choose : color or alpha or color+alpha.
Thanks
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Jan 30

second hand mac pro?

Posted in: Hardware & Tech Talk
Hi guys,

I’m playing with the idea to buy a second hand mac pro from ebay.
Do you guys have any experience with this? Are there any extra customs for second hand stuff from the US to EU?

Thanks,

pH.

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Jan 30

Seeking Compositors..

Posted in: VFX Marketplace
A mumbai based firm is looking for Compositore (AE,Nuke),Roto
artists for an upcoming project on a contract for one month.

Scope of Work: Green Screen Keying,Crowd dulipcation,Tracking(2d/3d),PIP………..

Contact:earthlinkpictures@gmail.com

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Jan 30

cineform problem.!

Posted in: Hardware & Tech Talk
hi
i have 2k editing hardware with cineform as codec because of the si-2k shots.
but my playback has problems in frame dropping unless i downgrade the playback of my premiere to1/4 and lose a lot of data.
the playback on windows is okay.
…my system is in bellow descriptions:
cpu: intel xeon e5430 2.66ghz *2
8gig of ddr3 ram
64bit os 7
quadrofx 4500 nvidia graphic gpu
and my cineform is :neo 4k 3d 5.2
….
p.s:
every time i re-open my projects all my cache media files are being re produced and looks like premiere can not hold my cache , and it only happens on cineform si-2k files
:splat:
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