That's right friend - It may take up a little extra each loop but not that I can tell, Good little plumb in deed.

Dave

Dave, WHY do you think your work gets done quicker?

Assume you're talking about a selective prerender which is limited to 300 frames. These of course are subject to possible invalidation if you do some things forcing another render. So I'm trying to understand why those that favor prerendering think it saves them time. I can see maybe doing it once you are sure you no longer wll touch that section, but doesn't that lock you in? To me that would get in the way of creativity. So I'm wondering why you or anyone that uses it thinks they are saving time.

Billyboy:

I think that they were talking about RAM render, not prerendering. (Control - B)

A different use than what you're asking about I think. I use it to check something that's CPU intensive, so I can see it in real time, rather than have it stutter on my 2.6ghz Celeron :)

Andy

Actually, it's Shift+B. I preach the gospel of RAM render, because in compositing, it's a huge benefit. My "B" key is worn out on my new laptop, just from this alone.

Don't try to build RAM render Preview with a Pan/Crop synch cursor left on "locked" - you will only get 2 frames. You have to unlock this first.

Grazie

Douglass, I just built a new system to do a piece for a charity. It's faster with more memory and RAM previews really worked nicely. Loved being able to quickly show a move or effect to my "producer" (actually an old friend dating back to my rental house days in the 80s). It was very reassuring to quickly preview things and assure her that things would look fine in this wierd edit system she'd never heard of.

The old system was a 1 GHz P3 so you can imagine that anything new would be a heck of a lot better than I was used to here at home.

Very happy with the whole experience and hope we can help raise a bunch of money for PAWSSF, on organization here in SF that helps people with serious illnesses keep and care for their pets.

Rob Mack

SPOT, I stand corrected!

Compositing, now there's the term I should have used! :)

Spell checker turns composiiting into Composting. Big difference. Or not? :-)
A lot of the time, I feel my composites belong on the compost heap.

"Don't try to build RAM render Preview with a Pan/Crop synch cursor left on "locked" - you will only get 2 frames. You have to unlock this first."

... and I was constantly turning this Pan/Crop window on and off to make my previews... grazzi Grazie !

Sad . . . aint I? - Must get out more!

Ah JUST did! Just filmed some Spring blossoms . . . love it! Blue sky and White Gorse? .. .puuurfeckt!

Grazie

Now when I lived in England the Gorse was yellow? GM nodoubt.

Sorry, I had to check...

From www.webster.com

Plum

4 : something superior or very desirable; especially : something desirable given in return for a favor

Rob Mack

GM - apologies! White flowering BIG plant thing . . . yeah? . .that stuff. Not gorse. :)


Grazie

This time of year it must be Elderberry flowers. Oh for a glass of the Elderberry champagne my mother makes. A related strange thing; when I lived near the Coushatta band of Indians in east Texas they made the same stuff to the exact same formulae as my mother even though none of the white folks around and about had ever used the Elderberry flower.

Mike

are we saying here that all Pan/Crop sync cursor buttons on ALL events have to be off for Ram Render to work?

I think good ideas must must be hardy things to sprout up so independently and yet be so similar.

That sort of thing always makes me wonder about the origins of creativity and originality.

Rob Mack