CompuServe Messages

Good luck, Theo, in getting your RazorPro pro-ing. <g> As a word of encourgement: Last night I used the RazorPro for the first time with the PAR and the results were spectacular! I had some initial problems getting everything configured right, and had to spend some time climbing the RazorPro learning curve. I took four captured video clips and did some crossfades and wipe transitions, added a little text, and output the whole thing back to the PAR. I think the text module is still a little flaky and I had some other strange things happen, some of which were probably my fault. The PARxPAR->PAR rendering is slow, but I couldn't tell the difference between the Hi-8 source video and the final composited video output, even though the result was JPEG compressed twice. The cross fades were clean and the soft-edge wipe transition looked very professional. When they get the bugs out and get some decent manuals, I think this combo will be great, especially when combined with rotoscoping thru 3DS. Based on what I've seen so far, I cannnot recommend the current (beta) version to anyone needing to do production work, but even now it sure is a lot of fun. Hope you get yours working soon. JKJ BTW, their animation player (Razor Player) was an unexpected bonus. It is a good way to play anything from the PAR from within Windows. The controls for dragging forwards and reverse thru a video clip are more responsive then those in the PAR.EXE. You also have complete keyboard control of ANI playback, including single-frame stepping forward and backwards. I'd like to get my hands on the calls to their DLL and try writing a custom controller.