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Re: Anybody has a 5 sec HVX200 greenscreen sample? - 16 years ago
Any frame rate is perfect, since i'm not going to use it for anything but a class.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Re: Anybody has a 5 sec HVX200 greenscreen sample? - 16 years ago
Shane's clip is perfect. Thank you so much! Wayne: getting another sample wouldn't hurt at all. Possible?by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Re: Anybody has a 5 sec HVX200 greenscreen sample? - 16 years ago
Thank you so much, Shane!by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Anybody has a 5 sec HVX200 greenscreen sample? - 16 years ago
Hey, guys! Is there someone here so enormously generous and kind to trim a 5 sec. HVX200 greenscreen, QT sample for me? I only need a tiny DVCPRO bit. I would only use it in a class. Possible? Thanks in advance.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Re: re: Mastering via FCP vs. mastering via After Effects - 16 years ago
"I thought we were talking about onlining too. That is what all my comments were about." I apologize for loosing my temper. The thread was totally about onlining. I charged like a bull when I saw redby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Re: re: Mastering via FCP vs. mastering via After Effects - 16 years ago
"So how do you achieve the perfect Green screen matte or warp for example with the tools in AE?" With something called Keylight. Ring a bell? It's the keyer in Shake. "The algorithm behind the motion tracker in AE is inaccurate making the tracking very difficult". Perhaps the person behind the algorithm behind the tracker? AE's motion tracker has improved 1000 per cenby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Re: re: Mastering via FCP vs. mastering via After Effects - 16 years ago
The power of a layer based model explained briefly for Johan: You have 238 elements (layers). You want to quickly make a tunnel in 3D space with them. Perfect. It takes 30 seconds. You grab the first one. And write (no need to actually write most of it) a tiny line of code that basically says: please make the third term of the position vector (that would be Z position) a consequence of theby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Re: re: Mastering via FCP vs. mastering via After Effects - 16 years ago
Johan: Let me say it this way: if you're wickedly fast with nodes, that's really a great thing. But bear in mind that their primary design goal was not making you wickedly fast (that would be a fortunate coincidence), but rather giving you total control about the order in which things are processed: does this mask go before or after this effect? Contrary to your assertion, it's much more aboutby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Re: nothing selected on a menu - 16 years ago
Francois: The reason why you can't have a menu with no button selected (as Flash interactive content does, for example) is because.... DVD content is designed to be used with a remote control, not a mouse. Because of this, freely moving a cursor around the screen is simply not an option. You can only jump from button to button, as if they were stones on a lake BTW, this is also a good reason whby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro
Re: re: Mastering via FCP vs. mastering via After Effects - 16 years ago
Johan: I think the mistake is the dichotomy. The AE vs Shake thing. Or the AE vs Motion thing. Or the Combustion vs Shake, etc. Software companies have a competition going on: the tools they create, not so much. The node based approach in Shake is a wonderful soltuion to ONE set of problems (breaking free from a fixed rendering order). It's not necessarily the best solution for any problem.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Re: re: Mastering via FCP vs. mastering via After Effects - 16 years ago
I think the spirit is: use a high quality compositing app. If you prefer Shake, then perfect. Shake is obviously a super powerful tool. The several comments you made about using a "real" compostiting app are a perfectly valid opinion (specially in a Pro Apps forum!). I don't have the time or desire to go into that kind of argument.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Re: re: Mastering via FCP vs. mastering via After Effects - 16 years ago
I'm late to this thread, but let me point out that Stu Maschwitz (the author) is one of the most knowledgeable guys I know. When he speaks, I listen (or rather, when he writes, I read!). He has been a founder of the Rebel Mac unit at ILM with John Knoll, and is a founder of The Orphanage. It's important to note that the HDR/float implementation in After Effects goes much, much further of whatby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Re: How to activate subtitles through a menu. - 16 years ago
a) Is not really an interactive need, since the subtitled status of the two movies won't change You don't need a button. You just need to add any kind of visual information that says it's subtitled. b) of course, you just create two more buttons: one for for subtitles on and ther other for subtitles off. You set the subtitle steams in the inspector, as explained. The only drawback is: When yby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro
Re: How to activate subtitles through a menu. - 16 years ago
Select the French subtitles on button, and in the inspector you will have a drop-down menu to set subtitle stream. Set it to #1 with the "view" checkbox enabled. The select the subtitles off button and set it also to #1 but with the "view" checkbox disabled. Now, really professional DVDs work in an intelligent way about this. What I mean is, people expect the currently seby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro
Re: 3D menu's on DVDSP - 16 years ago
This is very easy to do, if you are familiar with both a 3D application and DVD SP. First you create the 3D scene with buttons in your 3D app and export it as a Quicktime movie. You will probably want the button highlights to match the perspective of the buttons,right? In that case, still in the 3D app, create the highlights (with a black material), place a white background then turn off everyby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro
Re: One month trial After Effects - advise please. - 16 years ago
I think the $300 difference is minimal, considering the gigantic difference in features between the two versions. I'd say at this point the standard version only exists so it can be bundled in a "lite" version of their video collection. Among other things, you loose: Motion tracking, the most sophisticated keyers (like Keylight), animation tools like exponential scale/the wiggler/the sby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Re: One month trial After Effects - advise please. - 16 years ago
Hey, Filmman. After Effects in a nutshell: outstanding, second to none motion graphics, and nice (though probably not in the same league) compositing. However, the truly beautiful thing is how it provides BOTH things in a single environment! Let's break it into specific aspects, in case that's helpful to you. * The text animation engine is simply brilliant. As an example, Motion's Sequence Tby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Re: DVD Studio Pro FEATURE REQUESTS: Post them HERE - 16 years ago
Of course, John! I understand at least one of them is based on JAVA and the interactive capabilities are in a different world compared to current DVDs. I am relly interested in that too. However, I'm not sure if I'd like such a gigantic development effort to take place now for something that won't be so useful for real world, commercial projects in the inmediate future. I say this because buiby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro
Re: Motion FEATURE REQUESTS: Post them HERE - 16 years ago
Thank you, Mark. It feels good, being able to ask for things that could make our creative life better. It's like being a good lobbyist. From the most complete ignorance, however, I wonder if writing all this in late november isn't too close to the traditional date for spilling the beans? Is that the term you use in the US? I am making assumptions, since there weren't really new beans in the bby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Motion
Re: DVD Studio Pro FEATURE REQUESTS: Post them HERE - 16 years ago
One more important request: I think it could be very important to discuss and maybe redefine DVD Studio Pro's workflow regarding multi-language navigation. The current, official SPRM based method is really a hard sell. Clients feel they are giving away too much control, with too many variables making it unpredictable to anticipate in which language will the thing play in some circumstancesby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro
Re: Motion FEATURE REQUESTS: Post them HERE - 16 years ago
Here am I again. One very BIG feature I forgot. The biggest update I could dream of for text in Motion is: text tools that actually let you affect the content (as an addition to just animating style, formatting or transform options). What I'm thinking is: a way to go from one text string to another. Or to convert text into random characters (or viceversa, or go from string to random, and then tby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Motion
Re: DVD Studio Pro FEATURE REQUESTS: Post them HERE - 16 years ago
Hello, Michae! (long time no see). Here I go then: * The most important request for me would be external monitoring options. While I understand some people may want Firewire DV, I wouldn't want to use that to monitor MPEG-2 streams. I would prefer the ability to route the simulator's (and/or DVD Player's) output to a Decklink or AJA uncompressed card (so that it doesn't add an extra layer oby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro
Re: Motion FEATURE REQUESTS: Post them HERE - 16 years ago
Thank you Michael for the opportunity to voice our favorite requests. I anticipate I will feel much better after this post Above all, of course, 3D space. And if I can be totally frank, I think Motion deserves a 3D implementation which is up to the state of things in 2007. This is, not just cameras with depth of field simulation, 3D lights with shadows and projections (and visible or volumetrby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Motion
Re: How do I tell where the auto break point was set? - 16 years ago
Just in case it helps, the layer break isn't added when you build the project, but when you format it (record to DVD-R, DLT tape, disk image, etc.) So, you'll have some feedback when you attempt to format. You may find out DVD SP doesn't find any suitable marker at that point. The best thing is to place a couple of marker in the proper point and set the break point to manual before formatting, ifby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro
Re: 8.5 GB disk playback problems with 2nd layer - 16 years ago
Lone Ranger: When a Dual Layer project is so unbelivable close to the limit (7.9 GB is the actual top) setting a reliable layer switch is almost impossible. As you surely read, the layer switch has to be just after the first half of the project. DVD Studio Pro should have complained about the lack of a suitable marker when formatting, though. I would suggest you try to get the project to about 7by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro
Re: Warning Message -- What does this mean? - 16 years ago
It doesn't mean anything, seriously It just means that DVD SP is ignoring two non-DVD files inside the VIDEO_TS folder. Those two files are created by DVD SP to keep track of changes on your project, comparing to your built DVD folder. As a test you could drag some computer file (say, a Word document) inside the VIDEO_TS folder, and you'll see DVD SP now report that three files won't be includeby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro
Re: scripting help? - 16 years ago
The stories shouldn't interfere at all with playback of the regular/full track. The Play all script for a series of tracks will obviously cause some pauses as the head jumps from track to track, all stored in different locations (can be minimized a bit by putting the tracks closer together in VTS editing). Stories are not actual tracks, so the full track should play without pauses or delays.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro
Re: scripting help? - 16 years ago
You can do this without a single line of code. DVD SP has this feature called "Stories". A "Story" is a group of markers from a track, re-arranged in the order you want, without duplicating media. The main use for this would be having two versions of a track without duplicating media (you could have, say, a standard edit of a movie and the director's cut). One thing aboutby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro
Re: AE 7 = WMV export? - 16 years ago
Only on Windows. Not on Mac. You would have to export a Quicktime movie and use Flip4Mac afterwards.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA
Re: fading audio on button click - 16 years ago
If you want it to be really smooth, with the shortest possible delay, there's an even simpler solution. Simply include the transition element at the beginning of the target track or target menu. In other words, in your NLE or motion graphics application, add the transition from the menu as the beginning of the content. That way the player's head won't have to move between different spots in the dby Adolfo Rozenfeld - DVD Studio Pro
