IPL nightmare, pro4.3.1, 25p, mixing stills

[Tom_Borg]

I have been experiencing constants crashes on my first 25p project in which i am also animated stills with Avid Pan & Zoom Pluggin. Just two pictures so far: a 7,5 MB jpg and a 10mb psd. Why so big? Beacause i need to perform some dramatical zooms and pans....

But crashes arises. For example when when i try to insert an edit in the animated picture(as its not possible to trim a segment that have pan&scan on it) in order to copy/ use different part of the animation into different places.

The following is the 2 more common error messages:


ipl 2.5 rELEASE

iN FUNCTION IPLaLLOCATEiMAGE(): [FILE IPLALLOC.C, LINE 315] FOR ALLOCATE IMAGE DATA
iNSUFFICIENT MEMORY
(STATUS:-4)

or

BACKTRACE
(STATUS:-1)


eRRmODE=ipl_eRRORmODElEAF

tERMINATE THE APPLICATION?

yES




and after that a new WIN32 window terminating the program:



IPL Library: termination the application

or sometimes a "Microsoft Visual Basic C++" saying that its have been an unusual error and though terminating the application.......





I dont know if there is a way of avoiding this crashes or if i am working with too big files (althoug no being able to zoom a 7,5 mb picture is just a toy and not a pro pluggin! as i have Zeon dual processor and plenty of ram and hd (windows xp by the way))
Maybe its a bug on Xpress Pro with the Pan and Zoom!. I havent found anything on avid knowledge center. Maybe you Michael have a tip :)

thanks to anybody for sharing any kind of information


Tom

[MichaelP]

It is supposed to work with files sizes up to 10K x10K. Are you rendering the effect as progressive? I don't believel it supports .psd files. Although those files are supported with direct import. It also sounds as there is a memory leak or problem. I will see what else I can find out.

[Tom_Borg]

thanks for your always so kind collaboration MichaelP,

yes i am rendering with Progressive.
I have mojo, so i am lookin in the monitor witouth needing to render. Filter: Realtime.


tom

[Tom_Borg]

I forgot to mention that i have already contact the swedeish technical support that jsut told me that they havent heard about IPL and that they havent anything in ther knnowledge center about that. Again they can't help me...:(

[travis]

I had troubles too with the pan and zoom.
Can´t do it with jpeg files. But it did work when i changed the jpegs into tiff´s.
In terms of quality I dont think it matters. Just that tiff´s will become bigger files.
I haven´t try with psd. I thought they couldn´t work.

By the way. Don´t you have troubles with audio sync when you work in 25p projects? I do and I know a lot of people report it too. Just curious about it.

[Tom_Borg]

Hi Travis!,

Thanks for the advise. I shall try with tiff...maybe that can help. I haven¨t have problem with the sync. But anyway on the moment i am doing a kind of project with extreme close ups of objects and part of the bodies, kind of shots in which sync doesnst play much of a role. So i havent notice. But on a month i shall editing a more classic documentary with interviews. I will send you an instant message telling if the sync function or not all along the project, 'cause ,if i remember well, you have written that it's ok on the beginning and that it only gets worst läter.

//Tom

[DVX100percent]

RE: Audio sync issues:

I just did a project in 24p and the sync issues were driving me nuts. What would happen is I would export as a reference and then encode for DVD. That's when I would notice the sync issues. Really bad. Anyway, after days of experimenting I found out two things:

1. Not using Avid Codec at export time solves the sync problem but at the cost of a picture quality.

2. I was able to reimport it into Avid at 29.97 and then add the Avid Codec and re-export it. That worked better, but I don't know if it added an extra "generation" to my footage.

If anybody else has a more grateful solution, It would be nice to know.

Vladimir

[MichaelP]

There is a know bug in NTSC 23.976p projects when exporting as contained QUickTime movie. The audio will drift becuase of some internal 23.976p/24p issues. This has been fixed in a 4.3.3 release either just rekeased or about to be released.

If you export using the QUickTime reference using the codec, there is no sync issue.

I have still to diplicate the PAL 25p sync issue mentioned above.

Michael