Time to bust out your thinking shoes (like fighting shoes but with a lower heel) and decoder rings, junior rangers. This happened last night, and it's been bugging me all damn day.
I had a shot cleaned up in Shake, exported into HD Quicktime, and dropped into one of my FCP timelines. Noticed stray roto shape at end of shot. It happens. Pulled shot out of timeline to check it out, and....it's perfect in Quicktime. And in Shake. Not a blip. Dropped it back into Final Cut, and there's that stupid parallelogram, mocking me. Rinse, repeat. Summoned three other editors to the desk, where we all proceeded to watch it over and over again and just be completely baffled. We re-rendered it in Shake and it's fine now, but if anyone can explain to me what happened, I will personally bake and mail you a batch of homemade gingersnaps. How the hell is something like that even possible? I'm out of ideas.
Not joking about the cookies, either. Go.
Pennywise?
Posted by: Hank Scorpio at September 21, 2007 06:58 AMI hate to follow that searing insight, but:
Let me get this straight, you made no changes to the Shake script before you rendered it, right?
Posted by: Rand at September 21, 2007 07:34 AMI had ceded the controls by that point to somebody a lot smarter than me, but yeah. What the hell?
Posted by: Holly at September 21, 2007 09:49 AMSounds like it's haunted. Call these guys.
http://www.ohioghosthunter.com/
Posted by: RCR at September 21, 2007 10:32 AMWhich platform (Intel/PPC) and versions of Shake/QT/FCP?
Posted by: J. Alexander at September 21, 2007 11:34 AMPPC, Shake 4, QT 7.2.0, FCP 5.1.4
Posted by: Holly at September 21, 2007 11:38 AMWhat is your 'Max Threads' set to, and are you doing an uncompressed render?
Posted by: J. Alexander at September 21, 2007 11:54 AMMax threads--Not sure, I'm not the one who Shaked it; and we're using a DVCPro HD codec, but I'm pretty sure there's some compression built into that.
Posted by: Holly at September 21, 2007 12:03 PMI should probably also point out that I know fuck-all about Shake, except to do a quick speed effect now and then.
Posted by: Holly at September 21, 2007 12:09 PMWas the designated Shaker using an Intel machine?
Posted by: J. Alexander at September 21, 2007 12:14 PMNo, PPC. Same everything.
Posted by: Holly at September 21, 2007 02:47 PMObviously! You forgot to frobulate the gimpel-ports. N00b.
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Posted by: Bobo at September 22, 2007 08:40 AMBummer. I was looking forward to trying your cookies.
Posted by: J. Alexander at September 22, 2007 08:55 AM