Comments on: SIGGRAPH Encore is Free until Oct. 31st

By: DGE

DGE — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:44:19 +0000

The "sketch-based interface" video is also amazing! New Blender request…. ;-)

By: crazybus

crazybus — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:07:40 +0000

I've just been though the 2007 videos and here are the ones I've picked out for me. You might like them too.
*Crossing The Line: Moving From Film to Games (and Possibly Back)
*Image-Based Tree Modeling
*Red Hat High: Using Open Source Software in a Technology Camp
*Urban Design and Procedural Modeling
*Anyone Can Make Quality Animated Films! The Eight Basic Steps to Success
and of course the above mentioned on demo reels.

By: TroutMask

TroutMask — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:16:15 +0000

it's working now. perhaps it was just overloaded this morning.

By: crazybus

crazybus — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:56:12 +0000

It says download for a fee. But the download link for the quicktime is easily findable in the source. Would it be ethical for me to download some of the videos to watch since my connection is much too slow for streaming?

By: humble

humble — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:42:37 +0000

Hey Kernon,
thanks for your help.

Memory is enough, I had a cold start, I have the latest java runtime (downloaded some days ago), my cache was cleared also some days ago and no other apps are running in bg…

… but it works in safe mode! Thanks a lot!

(maybe the sg team should work on that)

By: Kernon

Kernon — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:03:00 +0000

@humble
How much memory do you have? It may be some sort of caching issue. These are really huge videos (some are over 6 hours!).

Some tips I found (totally unrelated to the Encore page):
- go to Quicktime’s prefs -> Advanced and choose "Safe Mode (GDI only)" in the Video area
or
- set the Direct Draw mode to Safe mode

This is where I got the tips from: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=3035842

If that doesn't help, you could also try:
- check to make sure you have the latest Java Runtime.
- try clearing your cache
- have you done a cold boot of your system and tried it then?
- what other applications are running in the background?

By: humble

humble — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:24:41 +0000

I am pretty sure they use technology that comes out in a few years, so my PC with latest quicktime and browsers is unfortunately incapable to show their website.
And even my browser even crashes (Yeeha), something that has never happened with my firefox before…

…damn, I wanna watch this stuff…

By: CGuy

CGuy — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:18:47 +0000

man, I wish I had DSL… I'll have to use my College's wifi… cool stuff!

By: Meltdown

Meltdown — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:25:24 +0000

Check this too:
openPipeline: Teaching Animation Production Pipelines in the Arts Context (2007)

you can find it at the end of the page.

cheers

By: kram1032

kram1032 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:07:27 +0000

great :D