Speed Racer Effect...

I was wondering how to create that animation look you see in old speed racer cartoons (and in the new movie trailer) of colorful lines flying by in the background with a foreground image. I'm sure that a replicator is needed or perhaps a particle emitter will work, but I thought I'd ask before I start muddling through this myself.
Andy

Ok, so I have something that kinda works. I created a line using the shape tool and turned it into an emitter. After tweaking the controls, I have it looking more or less what I was going for, lines flying from one side of the screen to the other.
Now I have a different issue. The project is 720p30 DVCProHD. When I try to render I get the infamous, "This object is too large to render, and will be cropped. The maximum size is 4096x4096". It's talking about my emitter. I've had this issue in the past and the way 'round it was to check the "fixed resolution" box on the layer and reposition if necessary. Well, I've selected the "fixed resolution" box on EVERY layer I have, and it STILL won't render out the emitter.
Is there something else I'm doing wrong?
Here's a link to my project:
http://homepages.roadrunner.com/cuttingroom/images/bullet_anime.zip
Andy

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Welcome to Discussions - it is likely that your PRAM battery (CR2032 3v lithium) will need replacement and it would also be a good idea to boot from your install disc and run Disk Utility:
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Make sure that the air vents of the computer re not clogged, you can vacuum them.
Please post back and let us know how you made out,

Adobe Media Encoder (Under After Effects CS4) Poor Converted Video

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As David said - find a more realworld test case. Apple's trailers are by all rights QT files, meaning that they will not necessarily be transcoded at the MPEG stream level, but instead fully re-compressed from the expanded pixel buffer - you may not see artifacts, but they are there nonetheless and will influence the quality of subsequent encodings, even more so on something as colorful and high contrast as this particular trailer... Also it seems you have made a moosh of your framerates. I'm not sure about the concrete example, but most Apple trailers are 24p native.
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Layers... roto, keying, distort, blur, blend modes.
I have no idea what the speed morph effect is but if I had footage of me in a suit and I wanted me to do something I'd have to separate me from the background (layers, roto, keying) then distort (many plug-ins do this) blur, and add some blend modes to make me morph...
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Need help with speed remapping

So here is my question. (check pic below to see timeline)
I'm working on a timeline and I have a clip somewhere in the middle of this timeline. Now I've put the two markers which close off the area of the clip that I want in slow-motion. And then I drag the rubberband now to 50%. This causes the clip to obviously become longer.
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http://gyazo.com/0cce5ab07e22897f21a25e3308a9cbb5.png Here's a picture of my timeline.
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If all you want to do is simply slow down or speed up a clip, use the Speed/Duration settings--it's probably the simplest way to induce a speed change. This is a constant speed change, which you can also do with Time Remapping--which is what I think you've been doing.
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I have Visual Hub and MPEG Streamclip - can I use one of these to convert my original .mov files to whatever iMovie is looking for in order to do the speed adjustments without having the video degraded?
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Speed Changes / Motion import

I have a particular shot -- I razor bladed in into 7 sections. Most are set to speed 100%, but some are set to 50%, 125%, etc. On two of the slices, I also used the "Curve from beginning" thing in the new speed change window (FCP v7)
OK now -- How do I import this sequence into Motion? I want to replace all the speed change effects in FCP with Optical Flow.
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Hello..
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"I have the RX3870-T2D512E OC MSI 626 913 0828 and the advertised clock speed is 2250 but the ATI OC tool as with Rivatuner say it is 1150 (I think). The slider for memory speed slider on both tools don't even go up to 2000, so what is up?"
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"The slider for memory speed slider on both tools don't even go up to 2000, so what is up?"
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Confusing speed reports

Hi folks, I'm new here and a noob to OCing. I'll try to keep it short and to the point. Please hang with me. Bottom line is I'm getting different CPU speeds reported by different utilities.
First off:
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BIOS - v1.4
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MEM - 2 x 1G Kingston Hyper PC2 6400 CL4 240
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DOT DISABLED
I'm trying to raise my FSB and CPU speed. I've read a lot on this and other forums to try to get educated on the OC process. But I haven read anything that matches exactly what I'm seeing. First thing to do is raise the FSB right? Several utilities show my stock FSB to be 333Mhz but the BIOS shows:
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The BIOS shows CPU 3GHz FSB 1500MHz
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Still wanting some confirmation that I really have a 375MHz FSB I decided to pause the info screen that blinks quickly when going into BIOS Setup. It reports "speed 377MHz x 8 = 3016MHz". That's good, I got the ~375 FSB I was trying for. But here's the kicker, below that it says:
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--> To turn off Speedstep (EIST): Set your Windows Power Profile to "Always On", "Desktop" or "High Performance" and/or disable EIST/Speedstep in BIOS.
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This is not correct. If system clock mode is set to "Manual" in BIOS, FSB clock speed and memory clock speed are not linked. Both values can be modified independently. The BIOS shows effective values for both settings. If memory clock speed is set to 800 MHz it already means DDR2-800 (real clock speed is always 1/2 of the effective settings (so in this case 400 MHz).
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Several utilities show my stock FSB to be 333Mhz but the BIOS shows:
1333 MHz is the effective value. The true or real value for clock speed is always 1/4 of the effective rating. CPU clock speed is based on real clock speed (not effective clock speed).

HT200234 Speed up user log in to Mac Server Pro

I have a mac server pro and 31 imacs. When several users log in at the same time, it some take up to 3 minutes to logi n to the server.How can I speed up user login time?

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I see alot of benchmarks for After Effects, Photoshop etc and see the benefit is pretty nice, but no benchmarks for InDesign. Obviously, as it's not a render, but workflow smoothness issue.
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