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Ok I am sure I am missing something obvious my C4D knowledge is nowhere near as deep as a lot of you on this forrum.

I am creating a Jellyfish. So essentially it's a head with a few other bits of geometry and tentacles. The tentacles are made of splines and sweep nurbs with spline dynamics and this is giving me great organic movement.

Problem is the sweep nurbs are passing through my geometry of the head, when the tentacles float up.

I put collider tags on the sweep nurbs as well as the geometry that makes up the jellyfish body but this doesn't seem to work.

At first I thought maybe it was a problem of upping steps in the spline dynamics but jacked it up to 100 and still nothing.

Not sure if it's something in the order in which cinema calculates the dynamics or if it is just an obvious checkbox or setting somewhere I am missing to make this all work properly.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

On a mission to get a platform agnostic workflow going, trying to get away from our old workflow of FCP editing into AE for final color correction and effects.

So on a current project we edited with premiere but then transferring to after effects was problematic.

When we export an XML from FCP and import with automatic duck pretty much everything transfers over with no issues.

Now from Premiere to After effects we lose any text layers, and none of the audio crossfades work.

This is a very simple edit so it's no big deal to go in and fix manually but just worried about more gotchas on complex projects down the road. Is there a list somewhere of what does and doesn't transfer between the two programs?

Seems really weird that something as basic as an audio crossfade transfers between FCP and AE seamlessly but not between AE and Premiere.

We tried many methods to transfer dynamic link, xml, plain old copy paste.

For some reason the XML export didn't seem to work at all between Premiere and AE which is kind of worrying since this for me is like insurance if dynamic link gets wonky..

So I guess my question is am I doing something wrong what is the most rock solid way to get a project from Premierre to AE and keep everything from the edit?

I have a project starting where we have an illustrator that uses brush and india ink, want to scan the illustrations and really capture the nuances in the brushstrokes.

Looking for something that can scan tabloid or larger. 

My current scanner is a piece of junk, but not really sure what to look for in a scanner. I guess my concern is less with resolution and how much subtlety it can capture.

So any recommendations for a good scanner for artwork. Budget for scanner is max 400$ but obviously cheaper is better.

I want to get some shared storage that will mostly be used by three users occasionally up to 5. Read in the past that QNAP was the way to go.

Most of the work is is AI, PSD, AE, C4D but would like to get something that up to two users could use to cut offline prores422.

Was thinking of getting the QNAP TS-869 Pro on the site as far as I can tell they say it is capable of data rates of 222MB/S and prores422 HQ is around 190 Mb/s

so it would seem this system would more than do the trick.

On the QNAP site they only list one model up the TS-879 Pro  and above as being suitable for video editing and only if you use it with 10gbe.... just looking at the data rates this seems like complete overkill for what I need but am I missing something?

I was hoping to test the waters of setting up and managing a system with something in the budget range of the 869, but want to make sure I am going to get something that will do what I need it to do.

Any advice is much appreciated. Tried calling QNAP directly but the person I got had a really tough time with english so couldn't really get anywhere.

I have a project where the inertial bounce expression doesn't seem to work sporadicaly. I get error line 18 time can't be zero.

What's weird is I copy paste the expression to a layer in the project where scale is animated from 0 to 50% and it works for a bit (like 3 or 4 ram previews) and then it stops and gives me the error. Comp is at 12fps.

I have a workaround of just converting the expression to keyframes in a different project where it is working, but it's driving me crazy that I can't figure out what could possibly be causing the error.

The layer is a still tiff rendered out of cinema, no time remapping or anything like that. And all that is on there is the animation of the scale with innertial bounce applied.

Anyone seen this before any ideas why this is happening?