DCTV
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JR> I always lock my JR> entire animation palette to the first frame. If there
are large JR> differences in palettes between frames I can use adpro and
animworks to JR> retouch all the frames and set them all to the same values.
This always JR> -seems to help.
I think I tried locking the palette when I first converted the frames under
ADPRO with your macro and it did something wierd, like the colors weren't
right. I will have to go back and try again and see what happens. I finished
something that I was going to submit for Jerry's tape but I still haven't made
the soundtrack for it. You know, the isssue of 30fps is kind of a straw man to
me. I ran my anims at slower speed and dumped them to tape and they looked
okay.
Actually, I wouldn't worry about the sound track too much. I don't think there
will be too much sound on the tape. At least you had something to contribute. I
hope that I can provide one of my walkthrough animations for the next tape, but
I would need to get permission to re-use them, sure don't need an angry
customer.
It's interesting to note that I have seen some animations that were done in 30
fps but the frames were in duplicate pairs. I'm not sure what this is called,
but basically the animator only renders 15 frames and duplicates each frame to
get the 30 frames per second rate, still effectively only 15fps but much
smoother than a true 15 fps animation. Does that make sense ???
I have also heard that several video productions are actually done at 24 fps, I
think I saw some mention of the movie excalibur as one example of this. I just
got my Personal Animation Recorder so I will test it out and see if this is
true. DCTV is great but full 24bit at 30fps and real time capture/compression
at 30 fps is too good to pass up. I'm still waiting for the seagate hard rive
though… Bummer.
🙂
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same Exclibur, but that was shot on
film, and (practically) all film is shot at 24fps. Back in the old days
(silent, hand cranked) they shot at 18fps. Video needs to be specially synched
to work with film, so digital video effects and such are synched for 24fps film
production.
^.^ jt