Return-Path: Received: from host6.canaca.com ([66.49.160.142] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4730979 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 31 May 2012 23:56:55 +0200 Received: from 207-195-100-23.regn.static.sasknet.sk.ca ([207.195.100.23] helo=[192.168.1.38]) by host6.canaca.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SaDOg-0000PA-Vq; Thu, 31 May 2012 17:59:11 -0400 From: Jack Tunnicliffe Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_021A807E-1D54-4A90-AB9C-BE9B3049D871" Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] Working with still sequences Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 15:59:08 -0600 In-Reply-To: To: "After Effects Mail List" , References: Message-Id: <10B43E33-6CAF-4F2F-A16F-97DC31819B13@javapost.ca> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host6.canaca.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - media-motion.tv X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - javapost.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: --Apple-Mail=_021A807E-1D54-4A90-AB9C-BE9B3049D871 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 We're looking into this with the Metasan people and our drive supplier. = Rendering to a San can sometimes be far different than rendering to a = standalone drive system.=20 Jack Tunnicliffe Java Post Production www.javapost.ca On May 31, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote: > > We're interested to know what is going on here as well. We've = actually inflicted damage to our san drives by rendering a reel of tiff = files (around 30,000 to a folder) for a feature in preparation for a = DCP. The > =20 > That=92s a serious bug. I DCP creation work for features and this is = not an issue on NTFS drives. I=92ve routinely had folders of 16 and = 32-bit TIFFs with 50,000 to 150,000 image sequence as never had an = issue. I bring those into AE and render J2K, also in single folders and = no issues. It introduces a little lag but not unexpected and normally = don=92t have thumbnail view on for those folders. Putting sequences in = sub-folders is a huge pain. > =20 > I wonder how NTFS drives would behave under MacOS with a driver for = this situation. > =20 > stephen van vuuren > 336.202.4777 > =20 > http://www.sv2dcp.com/ > http://www.sv2studios.com/ > http://www.outsideinthemovie.com/ > =20 > A film is =96 or should be =96 more like music than like fiction. It = should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what=92s = behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. > =96Stanley Kubrick > =20 --Apple-Mail=_021A807E-1D54-4A90-AB9C-BE9B3049D871 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 We're looking into this with the Metasan people and = our drive supplier. Rendering to a San can sometimes be far different = than rendering to a standalone drive system. 

Jack Tunnicliffe
Java Post Production
www.javapost.ca



On May 31, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Stephen van Vuuren = wrote:

 We're = interested to know what is going on here as well. We've actually = inflicted damage to our san drives by rendering a reel of tiff files = (around 30,000 to a folder) for a feature in preparation for a DCP. = The
I = wonder how NTFS drives would behave under MacOS with a driver for this = situation.
stephen van vuuren