HEEEEELP!!! 2004-03-01 - By Michael Klein
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Michae;
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Michael Klein (president)
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-- --Original Message-- -- From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Eric Lampi Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:10 PM To: XSI@(protected) Subject: RE: HEEEEELP!!!
Hi Michael,
After throwing myself out the window (we're on the first floor) I brushed myself off, ignoring the shocked looks of my co-workers, and MBed it in AE. Not as good but in a pinch it will have to do.
I looked at the scene, while it's gone in frame 69, if you go to frame 12, quick preview, advance a frame, then back, the same thing happens.
We've managed to reproduce this problem, and alsonoticed a regular pattern that seems to be tied to the playback rate. In this case it's 29.97. It seems to be a rounding error in the way it calculates the playback speed and the particle's motion. It seems as thought the math just isn't accurate enough resulting in the occasional, but regular error.
It was almost certain that it would happen about every 12 frames, or some multiple of 4, but in the tests I did, it happened on 8, 12, 24, 25, 47,48 and even 200 on a guess. As long as the playback rates are whole numbers it probably isn't very common, but obviously this is a problem if you have to work in NTSC. I can only guess that the seed number just the frequency of the problem, but it isn't really a fix.
Thanks for taking the time to look at it, I appreciate it. Who at Soft should I send this to? Assuming that everyone over there is enjoying a relaxing weekend away from a computer.
Now I just have to do something about that broken window and my new found reputation for being a nut-case.
Eric
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