#Amiga-> File Xfer?
Erik,
I think it was in the new products section of VTU. It also shows in some
of the mail order house ads.
The post house isn't paying me – thats just where my clients are getting
their projects put together. The overscan requirement is due to a peice
of hardware they have that uses that size. Often we use the last frame of
an anim as a base graphic for a transiton or a built page. At that
resolution, the image off the betaSP tape and the image from thier
TitleMan box line up correctly. Without it, they have to move it around
to get the TitleMan output to line up exactly with the image from the
tape. So as a matter of policy, they just use all images at that
resolution. I have to run at the Toaster resolutions since the clients
come here to preview the product, either to aprove look and motion before
final rendering, or to approve (and pay for) the final rendering before
delivery. If I render and lay to tape at 640 x 480 square pixel, the
images don't look right. And most of these people are the smoozy woozy ad
exec types who don't know a pixel from an axle. I just can't picture
myself saying, "yea it looks wrong here but it will be right when they
render it to tape at your final (expensive) on-line session- trust me.
That'll be $2000 please…"
As for the frame total, (heh,heh you'll love this one) the original
request called for 4 seconds with a six day delivery time. On the third
day the script was completely rewritten, the planned post house graphics
canned in favor of more animation. We ended up with 20 seconds of
animation on the same 6 day schedule. That was two 8 second segments an
one 4 second segment.
wmc – via Autopilot!