Hasta La Motion!

Probably I installed an asset management software trial (Grid Iron FLOW) which also installed .NET Framework 3.0 on my machine. Since then the Nuke is acting very slow. I have even uninstalled it but no avail.

I’ve tried cleaning the Nuke buffers, caches etc, deleted all the temp files and system administration cleaning and stuff like that.

My system configuration roughly

Quad Core 6GB RAM – NVIDIA 7600 GT
Windows 7 (64) – Nuke 5 (64) – Nuke 6 (64)

I’d really appreciate if someone could help me.

Some colleagues mentioned an interesting idea this evening. Can infa red heat maps aid the keying process in compositing for green, blue, blackscreen for live action and effects work? I’ve noted some limitations such as breathing, farting will show up in the heat map and that clothing might not absorb the heat from the wear evenly. However more promising is the idea of using heated or cooled liquids for water tank work. Again a limitation here would be that heating the liquid or substance would change the way it acts when in the water.

Is the technology there to record a good plate and an infa red map at the same time? Seems like the idea has some promise. Has this technique been used before?

Thanks.

I was going to post this in the preproduction forum but I cant access it due to privileges…

I am planning to shoot a on location, an old nazi gun tower. My plan is to shoot most of it by hand or steadycam and basically bring the scene back to life with 3D airplanes, nazi trucks and jeeps, and bombs flying down at the tower whilst its trying to shoot down the airplanes.

Since my only experience is really with compsositing and the 3D aspect, I was wondering if anyone has used this camera before, and also wether anyone can give me some useful tips on things to keep in mind?

I know for example that I need to limit my panning because of rolling shutter (which I believe I can fix with Nuke’s rolling shutter plugin) but are there any other REALLY IMPORTANT aspects that I need to know in order to make the shot work well for 3D tracking and matchmoving?

Oh the camera im using is a sony-hc7 and here’s a link to its info:

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/…uctId=11039061

Thanks a lot for the help in advance…

Is there any way I could buy one from the US? And have it shipped here to Canada directly, or via a friend who lives in the US new york?

Couldn’t a friend technically ‘send it to me as a gift, or loan’? That way I could get around the import duties? and tax

Though, what ARE the import duties/tax Is there any way to work it out? If they aren’t too much, I’d pay them.

Lots of people in the 3D and video comping world use mac.
I was thinking some epecs like this:
DELL 7500 2x Xeon 5540, 2xSAS HDD, quadro 3800 (or GTX 285), 12gb RAM. It costs about 4000euros.

Then, my doubts are:

Do I have to think about buying a Mac pro intead of a WS (dell for ex.)
I use 3D Max, Nuke, AFX, photoshop…

Thanks a lot.