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Dennis, Tis true…Elastic Reality Inc. has merged with Avid Technologies. We're all really excited by the prospect of what we're going to achieve together and looking forward to what the future holds. Jason ERI tech support
#ER & Avid
Message #5668
I read in todays NY Times that you guy's have been bought by AVID. I hope this doesn't effect your hardware & software compatability in any way. .
No problemo – thats what I'm here for 🙂 Chris Edgin ERI Tech
>>Nothing special to do at all and for the purpose of linking the animations, you only need one roll.
Ken, True, we're vector based. I don't know the details, but presumably our programmers do. After all, they make the BIG bucks 🙂 Jason Makes little tiny bucks
Please, add it quick, it will help me a great deal… Mei-Tien
Jason, Hope that will happen soon….. Mei-Tien
You insert your first sequence, in the a-roll and continue inserting the other sequences into that roll as well. After all images are inserted into the a-roll, accept, and then select the pass-thru TJ project and select FLC as your saver. Nothing special to do at all and for the…
Hiya… couple notes.. Have you ever seen the video 'Cry' by Godley & Creme? Pretty sharp, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it was done with an early SGI-ER. Stargate eh? Didnt even read the post that close (I'm swamped here!)… I know one fellow that worked…
Want to buy
Message #4311
I want to buy I am in Mexico, can you inform me where to order.
It's a well deserved accolade Jason!
Jason, would a magic wand work with ER? 'Cos you are vector based and I've only seen wands in pixel based programs like Photoshop! In ER you are surely putting vector lines ontop of the picture so as to manipulate it rather than actually selecting a few pixels to make…
#EDITORS CHOICE!
Message #4300
Hi Everyone! The February issue of Computer Graphics World and named Elastic Reality the Editor's Choice for the Best Rendering and Special Effects product of 1994. On behalf of everyone at ERI, we'd like to thank the Editors at CGW and our users for recognizing our work in this way.…
FUTURE ER SIGHTINGS!
Message #4299
Hi Everyone! Sneak Preview Time!!! I was given word yesterday that three movies slated for near-term release have featured Elastic Reality produced effects… These are (in no particular order): Outpost, The Hunted, and Last Gasp. Last Gasp, I'm told, has Robert Patrick in it. I don't know about the rest.…
Mei-Tien, A magic wand is often difficult to master. Just ask Mickey Mouse 🙂 We are none-the-less looking at this and other techniques for making shape creation even easier. I don't have more info on this but I do know the R&D guys are hard at work on something. Jason…
Bri, Thank you very much. Elastic Reality for Windows owes a great deal to the skill of the programmers who worked on it, both the Windows specific team and the platform independent team. It owes a lot to our technical support staff and our beta testers who really beat the…
Rico, Aw shucks! (blushing) Advanced editing features are slated for future releases..our SGI product has the ones you mentioned, and more. Jason ERI Praise Acceptence Squad
#Multi-Morphs
Message #4283
My question >>I will be starting an ER project soon where I will have on the order of 10 images that will morph into one another. In other words, #1 will morph into #2, then #2 will immediately morph into #3, which will then morph into #4, etc., in a…
That would be a very nice feature add :-). We will defintely consider it. Chris Edgin ERI Tech (Yes, its a boring title 😉
#A Wish
Message #4256
It will be very helpful if ER support some kind of Lasso command( or magic wand) which defines the outline of a picture precisely for us, then we can modify it for the shape that we need. Will this be in ER someday soon? Mei-Tien
>That was the problem. Funny how after making AVI images and reading computer >and graphics magazines for years I have never heard of this shortcoming. Such is life with windows. MS never tells about the problems, and of course anyone will write a glowing review just to get published, based…
Yea, that post would make a good text file in their library.. >Without a doubt its one the most impressive programs I have coming across, Yep! As a windows programmer I agree. First of all, they've made a very nice and simple interface…. just taking functionality and providing the simplest…
ADPro ARexx & PSAcript ?
Message #4246
Chis, Would you PLEASE show me an example of SET_RENDER_MODE with all it's arguments used? I spent all day Sat trying to get it to work (with ADPRo 2.5) and never got it to go. I know the docs say it the same ast the GET_SCREEN_MODE, but there is a…
Let me just say that this is the most incredible response I've ever gotten to a question, and I won't to thank you for the details. I just purchased ER for windows, and have been experimenting with it. Without a doubt its one the most impressive programs I have coming…
>> If you did something other than 320×240 or 160×120, chances are it will be unplayable
What resolution did you out put the.avi as? If you dod something other than 320×240 or 160×120, chances are it will be unplayable – this is a cross between the compression codecs and media player problem that causes odd sized .avis to be unplayable. Chris Edgin ERI tech.
AVI files only play at some sizes. Is this one 160×120 or 320×240? Bri
#Windows error
Message #4206
I made a morph in AVI format, and opened Media Player to play it (I tried it both insided ER and outside ER). I keep getting an error message only on ER-produced AVI files, as follows: Application Error MMTASK caused a General Protection Fault in module MSVIDEO.DLL at 0008:16C8 I…
>> Jason In the middle, and loving it Is this what is known as "hero" sandwich?
Ken, True, very true. Both types of customers are very important to us. And, each has benefited from the input of the other. We consider ourselves very lucky to see both sides of the industry. And, we're proud of the fact that products like ours are helping to bring about…
Jason, it must be a *real* change for you guy's. With the SGI program you are selling a few hundred copies, and I bet you knew each one individually. Must be a completely different mind set to selling thousands to guys like us who have no experience but a *lot*…
Enjoy the View! Bruce
Jason, It's on the way. I am sending you via EMAIL an avi of a PAR animation that I did as a SFX test for the movie. Check it out, and then imagine it with REAL lighting and set design, instead of a desk lamp and white walls. Andrew
Sam, Grainy output could be coming from several places. 1) the video compressor you're using is likely the largest culpret. Many of them compress video by discarding individual pixel's values to create blocks of the same color which compress better. The cinepak and indeo encoders (at their highest quality settings)…
Andrew, The address in the manual will be fine. We'll look forward to receiving the script! Jason ERI Congressional Baseball Team
Jason, Thanks so much. I will send a script out first thing Monday morning. Should I just send it to the address in the manual? To answer your closing question–no, I am not shooting on 16mm. I will be shooting on 3/4" for three reasons: 1. FILM IS TOO DAMN…
#movie quality
Message #4159
Am I missing something? Whenever I render a movie, the quality is really bad. Both the start and finish frames, and everything in between are very blocky/grainy. I mean the morph's are excellent, but they just don't look professional quality. Any help on settings (what and where) or if this…
Jason, Sure, when I cleaned up a couple keyframes, I will mail to you right away. Thanks a lot for the offer. I wish I have a steadier hand when I do tracing my cartoons. Mei-Tien
Bruce, Thanks! I just checked, I have version 1.01, too old indeed. I will get the new version ASAP. Mei-Tien
>> Jason >> Was not breastfed, and it shows Love those containers….. Bruce Breast fed in NY
Thanks Jason, I think that the tS interface is very well done, with the marks on the corners of the icons so that you are always reminded that there is a dialog *floating pallette* option. I know that you guys are working in ER every day, but I get a…
(part 2 of the making of the stargate mask effects) The action was filmed twice. Once with the bad guy wearing the fully extended helmet, and once with the bad guy not wearing the helmet. The fight scenes were planned and choreographed so that the motion would be similar in…
Rico, The director of Stargate wanted to achieve a mechanical look to the helmet effect…standard morphing as it existed early last year could not create this effect. The special effects crew at Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company considered using 3D to create the effect, which in many ways was similar to the…
Ken, I have seen the trueSpace user interface…lots and lots of icons. There are plenty of dialogs too though they often masquerade (I have never ever had to spell that word before, and probably I still haven't) as floating palettes. I'll send email to the programmers to have a look…
Mei-Tien, The Coca Cola commercial in which the Sun is thirsty and the earth is dry, the sun has a Coke and the earth turns green, is an example of cartoon style tweening done in ER. If you're looking for a worked example (including a project) of cartoon style tweening,…
Jason (aka 'Frank') Thanks for the pointer, but I needed someone who already had a class up and going. I found one at UCLA, tho. Thanx anyway. ..mark
I'm sure get this question all the time, but how was the face mask morph done in Stargate. If I purchased the PC version of ER, could I do the same effect. Also as a suggestion for the next release. I wish there was a way to select a group…
Your version of WinCIM should be updated to 1.3.1..Older versions (below 1.3) had a bug….GO WCIMSUP and get the latest. You may have had an address, phone or serial number in your last message which was moved to a private area. Bruce Herzog Forum Staff NY 10-Feb-95 at 2:11p EST
Jason, An example of cartoon style tweening done in ER windows was what I was trying to find. Anything available? I saw examples of face morphs etc, not cartoons. Thanks again. Mei-Tien
Jason, Have you seen the trueSpace interface? All icons virtually no dialog boxes. Its very nice to work with. Its a real bore when you go to a menu, then to an item then to a box which leads to another box etc. That way there is no problem in…
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