Cumulative log - Thursday 29 April 2010

 10.00pm – I arrive at the office. I continue working on the previous work.

Around 11.00pm – I import the background that I did in Photoshop onto After Effects. Unfortunately After Effect keep poping out error and crash. I try a few more time and it still didn’t go thru.

Around 12.00pm – I try to reduce the number of layer that I use for the background work by combining few elements. Originally it has 62 layers, and left about 30-40 after the reduction process.

Around 1.00pm -2.00pm – I go out to lunch

Around 2.30pm – 2.50pm – I go back to office. All my co-workers are still eating at restaurant located at the ground floor. However Jason, 1 of my co-workers has been asked by Ms Winny to open her office room. After he open the room, he quickly go back to eat downstairs.

Around 3.00pm – A person came to the office, asking me about an address on a piece of a paper. It was this office location. He tells me that he has been asked to install a mechanical curtain on the office. I then called Jason to confirm. After that I let him in, and he install the curtain. I meanwhile continue on my job.

Around 3.30pm – The man who install the curtain finish his job. I check the curtain wheter its properly working, and confirmed it to be ok.

Around 3.40pm – All my co-workers come back to the office.

5.00pm – Ms Winny came back to the office. I couldn’t remember when both Ms Winny and Mr Micheal go out.

Around 7.00pm – After Effects keeps crashing randomly even after the reduction process has been done before. I just ignored the problem and restart the software, until this time I can’t almost do anything. I decided to call my co-worker Jason for help.

He quickly found my problem. It was that the original Photoshop size is to big for the After Effects. my Photoshop size is around 3000pixels x 4000pixels while the final output video required is only 480 x 720pixels, which is the standard for DV footage. It causes the After Effect to crash as it require too much memory and power to process.

All my work in After Effects has gone to waste. I back to the Photoshop to resize the background and load it onto after effects.

Around 7.30pm – Dismiss