Hello everyone,
I am working with GEM on a Windows XP, using Hans' extended release. This Saturday, some guys from Perlon record label will be here, and I am going to do some visuals. I have some stuff made in a program called Visual Jockey that I can use, but I would really like to do some stuff in Gem. So, I have these questions:
a) What known issues are there, that might make patches crash, that would be best to avoid using in patches? GEM does crash more than PD! As far as I know, I'm probably best off NOT using any movie clips, as loading clips seems to be the biggest issue causing crashes and hogging CPU also (both AVI and QUICKTIME as far as I can tell)...
b) Does anyone have advice on organizing patches and rendering chains for a show? This is the hard part for me, I can get individual rendering chains that look cool, but I'm worried about organizing and switching in some kind of meta-patch. Is it better to have one big patch with sub patches, or to open seperate patches at once?
c) On a related note, I notice that effects I might put in the render chain don't have ON/OFF, there is just ON/OFF for entire rendering chain. So, suppose I have a pix_multiimage that I want to run through a couple of different effects - not simultaneously. Is the best strategy to just have the same pix_multiimate in two different rendering chains, with a selection interface?
Thanks, David