PAR – access denied
John:
>> Now if only the PAR actually *stored* the alpha channel, we wouldn't need
>> another big drive to store alpha channel enabled files. 🙂 I don't know
>> if there is an easy way to split alpha to a separate drive letter, is
>> there?
All we do here is to turn on alpha split and run PAROUT with the "delete files"
option on. This renders the files to the network, copies the big 24-bit files
to the PAR, and deletes them as it goes, leaving only the little 8-bit files on
the network.
Then just call up the 8-bit files as a background to the machine with the PAR
on it and render them directly to the PAR. That way you have both the full
color and the matte ready to lay off for A/B/C roll editing.
Greg Pyros