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Graphic Artists Wanted
Message #5257
Television production company seeks graphic artists to work on a freelance or short term contract basis. Successful candidates will have a killer demo reel and be prepared to demonstrate experience with PhotoShop, AfterEffects and Elastic Reality for the Mac. Knowledge of Topas Professional for DOS is also helpful, as is…
Wayne, Just thought I'd clear some of the stuff up for the benefit of lurkers. We own an Alladin, and I've been amazed by the quality of its output, even when compared to higher-end stuff like the ADO-100. The Alladin has more sophisticated effects, too. Pete
Wayne, Hi! Haven't seen you around in awhile! >> The drawbacks come down to the CG. It is a special version of >> Inscriber. It can't do roll or crawls. Not until the next release, but then they'll become available, I'm told. >> Fonts have to be in the inscriber…
Stu, What John Sobernheim said. Truly, it's an unbelievable device for the money. Pete
What John said. Pete
Tim, >> F'instance, there's a science fiction television series on here, >> BABYLON 5, which does pretty elaborate special effects work using >> Toasters for Mac . . . Actually, the Toaster works on the Amiga, not the Mac. Pete
Alberto, >> I don't know what you mean by MOW's. Movies Of the Week — TV movies. Pete
Gary, >> Are you guys going to on-line or outputting at AVR26? We're doing a fair amount of corporate work that finishes on a 1000 at AVR26. I'm waiting for 27, personally — still too many JPEG artifacts on some material at 26. >> My mac has 28MB RAM and…
Allison, >> We just installed 5.2 and have had zero problems so far….any bugs >> you've come across yet? Not bugs so much as things that need to be fleshed out and made pretty. Like the (ugh!) title tool. >> You know, Avid systems are multiplying in this little state….might…
Gary, >> Are there other Avid editors out there… Sure! I'm an Avid editor based in Stamford, Connecticut. I do a combination of industrials and broadcast work. We have an Avid 800 and a 1000, both running 5.2. Where are you based? Pete
John, Editing is all about fooling the eye into believing it saw what it did not. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you think that way. Pete
John, >> My current "hottest thing I have seen on TV and am trying to imitate >> effect" is an advertisement for a local hospital where a portion of >> the picture expands out and then dissolves to a logo. I think they are >> "hiding" the DVE by cropping…
John, >> I would like to be able to crop the DVE to a 1/4 panel over ProgramA >> and NOT BE ABLE TO SEE IT. When I do this, I can get it very, very, >> close, but what I can not get rid of is an overall "darkening"…
Hi, John. I just installed an Alladin system for our company in Stamford, Connecticut. We're in the process of transitioning from "mostly linear" to "mostly nonlinear;" with that transition, we've unloaded our Vista switcher, ADO 100 and Abekas A72 in favor of the Alladin, while adding Avid online capability to…
Larry, >> I'd love to share ideas, fixes, and frustraion with other AVID >> clickers. BTW… I received a FAX from Tewksbury Thursday >> (12/20/94) that 5.2 was shipping that day! Hi! I'm an AVID editor in Stamford, Connecticut; I'm with a production company that does a mix of broadcast…
Jerry, >> But why not aim this missive at Flom? He's the one that . . . It's one of those things that sneaks up on one — one day I was reading a thread entitled "Flyer Reports", next thing I knew I was watching a mud wrestling contest. Somehow…
If the two of you wish to engage in a juvenile name-calling contest, that's certainly your privilege — but it would be much appreciated if you would do so in private, so the rest of us do not have to pay download time to receive it. Pete
Shawn, I've done the upgrade several times, most recently to 3.1. It's not that difficult, though it does involve removing the power supply frame to get to the ROM chip you have to replace. The power supply frame is held in place with screws on the front of the A2000…
Sounds good to me. How can I order a copy? Pete
#ImageFX 2.0 Information
Message #44326
Kermit, Will ImageFX also support the Opalvision board? It's not mentioned in the release… Pete
Jim, All Avid video is compressed using harware-based JPEG encoding; it's just a matter of how much compression there is. At AVR27 the data transfer rate is so high it requires striped (e.g., paired) drives to make it work: the data stream is divided with half going to each drive.…
Bud, >> I believe most individuals CAN see the difference. And I would be >> reluctant to introduce a new system in either post or on-line news >> until the system reaches maturity. Have you seen AVR27 yet? I think that one's the convincer. Pete
Jim, >> The client just spent $70K or more on a nifty new nonlinear system, >> and the JPEG artifacts are so bad it looks like a consumer VHS dub I often see comments like this, and it usually turns out that the maker of them saw a low-resolution image…
Mike, >> I have assumed that the majority of the user base, (almost all of it) >> would not have access to this stuff. At a $50K – $100K pricetag, I'm not surprised. Then again, some facilities that spend that much don't have anything left over to purchase an SGI…
Bud, >> With all due respect, The company I work for has looked at non-linear >> systems as is Avid. But we found the output to be less than the >> digital systems we work with now. I agree, but I didn't make the purchasing decisions. The fact of the…
Jim, >> [Transferring .pict files into the Avid is] kind of like taking a >> slow boatride through Hell itself. The Avid graphic import software >> is, to say the least, not robust. It died. Many times. At the user's group meeting I was assured that this problem is fixed…
#Ami Imagine 3.1
Message #93776
Mike, I just got back from the Third International Avid User's Group Conference in Florida. The Avid is the most popular nonlinear editing system used in the high-end production industry (the Harrison Ford movie _Clear and Present Danger_ was cut on it, for instance, and Lucas's ILM uses it for…
Martin, >> The reason that we need to know what machine you're using is that >> the fan will not fit in a 2000 (luckily it's not need as the board >> sits vertically in a 2000) and the back plates are different for the >> different models. Where does…
#PAR Betacam Output?
Message #43885
I misplaced my PAR manual, and since the outputs on the back of the PAR aren't labeled I wondered if someone would mind reminding me which is which. Usually I just use the composite out; this time I've got to feed Y/R-Y/B-Y to a Beta-SP deck. Thanks in advance. Pete
Mike, >> we are doing that [matte output] now, funny you should want that. That's great news. It keeps getting better and better… Pete
Mike, >> …to assume that there is something special about >> the hard drive connected to the PAR is wrong. I didn't mean that there was something special about the drive; I meant that although the drive is made to look like any other partition to AmigaDOS it really isn't,…
Charles, >> In the meantime, you can roll your own alphas… I have done similar things in the past, but it's too time consuming. The watchword of all this stuff is "speed." Blaq!
Charles, I appreciate your offer very much. There was a time when I would have been able to do something like that myself; unfortunately (or maybe fortunately!) I've been so busy lately that I never have time to tinker anymore. We're talking fourteen and sixteen hour days here. So I…
Mike, I have another thought, while we're talking about 3.X things. One thing that's often done in high-end productions is the making of something called a "matte reel." It's used particularly with complex 3D animations that must be keyed over live video. It works like this: you get the animation…
Mike, >> There is a simple way around the problem for now. Make the images and >> save them to a different drive, then simply copy them in mass over to >> the PAR drive . . . The problem was essentially my fault, in that the Amiga was on…
Mike, Sounds like the other users here have explained the problem pretty clearly. Imagine is trying to save the interim file into the same directory as the regular .pic files, and since the "directory" is the PAR: virtual device, it chokes. You need to add a "Directory for .temp files"…
Martin, >> if there's a dealer nearby that has one I'd suggest that you go down >> and see it for yourself. I would if there was, but there isn't. I'll try sending the fax again, when I have a moment. Pete
Martin, Glad to see you on here. Some time back, I received an offer to enter an advance order for the new board. I faxed back a letter to you, indicating that due to the long delays and what I perceived as several broken promises by Centaur, I would need…
>> I will compile a list of questions [about the Flyer] from this forum >> and ask them at NewTek. Thanks for your offer, and forgive me if I ask anything that has already been answered, as I've not yet seen any specs for the Flyer. 1) Does the Flyer…
James, Could you repeat Expert Systems' address and telephone number? Pete
Field rendering
Message #85557
Just to complete my thought on field rendering… What I'm thinking about is a checkbox in the subproject info requester. If the box is checked, then the program generates frames with interfield motion — e.g., all the odd scanlines are from one rendering, and all the even scanlines are from…
Field-based rendering
Message #85442
Mike & Co.: Have you done any work in the direction of field-based rendering for 3.x? Seems to me it wouldn't be too difficult to do, and have it available as a toggle switch in the sub-project requester. Any thoughts? Pete
Flapping Eagle Obj?
Message #85133
By any chance, has anyone seen (or does anyone have 🙂 an Imagine object of an American Eagle with articulated wings? Pete
Flapping Eagle Object?
Message #42117
By any chance, has anyone see (or does anyone have 🙂 an Imagine object of an American Eagle with articulated wings? Any help greatly appreciated… Pete
James, Sounds great. Thanks. Pete
Rick, Thanks for your reply. Here's the couple of questions that came to mind: Originally I was single framing to Beta-SP using a Nucleus Personal SFC. What kind of quality differences are there between the PAR and something single-framed to tape? I use Imagine. Can you render directly to the…
#DPS Pers Animation Ctrlr
Message #153208
Anyone have any experience with the DPS Personal Animation Controller? I'm looking for comments while considering a purchase… Thanks in advance for any help. Pete
Frederic, One rumor that's going around is that they're just going to sell Amiga chipsets to third-party manufacturers. Pete
Paul, Gotcha. Pete
Paul, Why change the two letters? It IS Nucleus, not Nuclear. Pete
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