Catalyst v4.1 m152

[Martin Heuser]

hi richard,

i am testing 147 with my macbookpro, just to see whats new.
i am sitting in the hotel room and i have just some small movies.

here is what i found out:

- to be able to switch mixes as layer preview is a very good thing,
i like the "prefader" version very much. it is very good to see what a layer is doing, just befor moving intensity up. why is "prefader" not possible WITH FX?

- i made mix 8 as a Sub MIX Preview and i ran a movie on layer 1, switch that to mix 1 though 7. in the mix 8 window (submix preview) only mix 1 and mix 2 came up, all others keep white...?

- mix type "flat constant aspect ratio" -> backgound color ist always black,
i can choose the colour including transparent, but it is always black, even if there is no layer routet to this mix or no content is shown?
same with mix type "flat locked to corners" and "keystone"

- when I am in "curved" mix type, i am missing the "rotate points" function from the "keystone" mode... i LOVE the 16 points to do warp on my mix, that is the greatest and fastest way for me to bring my shape in the right place, but it would be great to first rotate the whole thing in the right angle and then start moving all those great 16 points, specially when you are working with the orbital mirror head

that is all for now, my last question is: when are we doing 16 layers?

all the best

MARTIN HEUSER
www.VISUAL-ART.org
Gemany

[emilianomorgia]

i like the "prefader" version very much. it is very good to see what a layer is doing, just befor moving intensity up. why is "prefader" not possible WITH FX?

There is a With FX

[FinnRoss]

Video Input FX appears to be broken? The option in preferences is graeyd out on all systems I've tested. This appears on Intel Mac Pros, MacBook Pro and old G5's. Have I missed something?

PhotoJPEG performance improvement noticeable on Intel and G5. Lovely.

DVC PRO HD, which was already good is now very good.

Fades also a noticeable improvement with Hog 3 PC.

Nice Work.

[samsc]

Video Input FX appears to be broken? The option in preferences is graeyd out on all systems I've tested. This appears on Intel Mac Pros, MacBook Pro and old G5's.

I moved the video input FX enable from the application preferences to the Video InputHUD-

And i turned it off by default - just in case

[FinnRoss]

I moved the video input FX enable from the application preferences to the Video InputHUD-

And i turned it off by default - just in case

Found it in the end!

[Mr_P]

Video input fx seem to be there - and working - for me... Intel MacBook Pro and Mac Pro 8Core 3G

version was stable on Paris gig Friday - great photojpeg performance with audio on a 12 min file. Not doing anything else except playback, but it worked fine.

Mix sizes: - cant seem to make a mix bigger than 1630x1221 manually. I can select 1920x1080, but f I try to resize it, it jumps back to the smaller dimensions. Tested on 17in MacBook Pro set to 1920x1200. There has to be a maximum size, but its not possible to drag a mix to it even 1920x1080 manually... (only by preset)

Love the right click on files to change the codec.... seems to work ok on what ive tested

Can you enable scrolling on toolbars?

Will feedback more later...
S

[Spam Butterfly]

Simon,

Go to sleep!

Hugh

[OlliR]

Did a bit of testing on MacPro 8xCore 3G with internal striped Raid.

I get two 1920x1080 movies running at constant 25 fps with Photo-JPEG 50% and still one 1920x1080 movies with Photo-JPEG 75%... not too bad.

I also tried the "Run test" option but there I saw some drops to 24 fps (1 Layer) something like every 10 seconds.

For the "preview layer" to sub-mix routing it would be a nice to have if the Layer selection from the "Mix options" would activate / deactivate that layer in the preview...

Some really nice add-ons - nice works Richard.

[samsc]

Video input fx seem to be there - and working - for me... Intel MacBook Pro and Mac Pro 8Core 3G

version was stable on Paris gig Friday - great photojpeg performance with audio on a 12 min file. Not doing anything else except playback, but it worked fine.


S

try apple intermediate codec.

[samsc]

m152-
Added mix size of 1400x 1050. thanks hilary
people need more sub mixes- changed mixes to lite-4 express-6 dv-8. jojo.
fixed crash with random release from hog with framestore playback. thanks spooky.
increased submix size to 1680x1200- ( this is really pushing things on older machines.... ).