ANIPRO TRUECOLOR
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Hi Brian,
Happy New Year !
What about the truecolor Animator version you (ADESK) promoted in CadUser
for the beginning of '95 ????
Hopefully,
Michael
Due to be released in march. See the following press release:
File Info for AASR1.RLS
Section: Index and Info Contributor: 76702,531 Size: 9678
Submitted: 9/14/94 Type: Text Accesses: 94
Title: Autodesk Launches Autodesk Animator(R) Studio R1
Keys: AUTODESK ANIMATOR STUDIO RELEASE 1 PRESS PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT
.Autodesk Launches Autodesk Animator(R) Studio Release 1 .The Windows(TM)
Studio for Interactive Paint, Motion and Sound . Autodesk, Inc. today announced
Autodesk Animator(R) Studio Release 1, a Windows(TM) 3.1-based
successor to Animator Pro(R). With a ground-breaking combination of
24-bit Truecolor paint, digital sound recording/editing and digital
video support, Autodesk Animator Studio provides a complete solution
for professionals in all areas of multimedia development. .
.[download time at 2400 baud: 1 min]
Thanks for Info !
BTW How does one include this neat File Infos ???
I use WinCim 1.3 and have tried a lot of things
Thanx, Bye
Michael
Hi Brian,
This message is primary for the developers at Autodesk
I have just read the official press release….
If I've got this all right, Animator Studio wil ONLY be released as
WINDOWS-VERSION ?!??!
PLEASE DON'T DO *T*H*A*T* TO US !!!!!!!!!!
Have you ever seen a 640×480 flic played in windows ????
Have you ever seen the faboulos Photoshop displaying a SINGLE picture
(especially in truecolor) ???
We all upgrade our machines to speed up the time-consuming process of rendering
and post-processing and you waste our efforts by converting a fast and
effective application to WINDOWS ?!
Please don't take this too personally, but the update to 3ds4 has
already been a waste of money in my point of view (compared to the
EXCELLENT changes from release 2 -> 3) and now THIS. It seems to me
that lately Autodesk tries to sell minor efforts for lots of money
(yes I know that WINDOWS programming is much simpler than real work
!)
These may seem harsh words, but thats how this all appears to me.
Maybe I have overlooked something and you have at least some arguments to
convince me that I'm wrong.
Hope to hear from you soon
Bye Michael
Michael:
For what it's worth, there has been a lot of requests from users over
the last few years to MOVE AAP to Windows. Note that Animator Studio
is not a REPLACEMENT for AniPro, but rather a suplemental product for
truecolor animations, although no information on the future of AniPro
has been made available.
Dave
UHHH,
lemme get this straight.
You mean people really REQUESTED that silly thing ???
Why don't they just use the turbo button on their machine to make it slower ?
BUHUUU (sniff), I want truecolor so badly, but I want to WORK with it.
Bye, Michael
BTW: Did you know that windows is just the longest batch-file in the world ???
<<Animator Studio wil ONLY be released as WINDOWS-VERSION ?!??!>>
That is correct.
<<PLEASE DON'T DO *T*H*A*T* TO US !!!!!!!!!>>
Actually, that was probably the number 1 wishlist item submitted by current
AAPRO users.
<<Have you ever seen a 640×480 flic played in windows ????>>
Yes. However AA STUDIO will not be using the FLC format while you are working,
it uses various flavors of AVI.
<<We all upgrade our machines to speed up the time-consuming process of
rendering and post-processing>>
Those same upgrades should benefit you when using AA STUDIO.
<< by converting a fast and effective application to WINDOWS ?!>>
Please remember also, that AASTUDIO is not intended to be a direct replacement
to AAPRO. While there are many aspects where the programs overlap, one is not
intended to replace the other. We recognize that there are situations where
AAPRO may be a better choice for a particular project than AA Studio.
-Brian
Well, thanks Brian, <<VERY big sigh !>>, I think I have to live with it…
From your (ADESK) article in CadUser I'd got the impression that you would
release an AniPro-Truecolor version and was *VERY* happy with it.
BTW, how do you maintain quality ??? It seems to me that you're changing to
truecolor, just to loose the progress by avi-compression.
In Germany we call this: To chase away the devil by asmodeus ?! (well, this is
as close as I could translate it <G>).
Bye, Michael
<<It seems to me that you're changing to truecolor, just to loose the progress
by avi-compression.>>
I'm not sure what you mean. I don't see a noticable loss of quality at all.
-Brian
I think he means if you are using typical 'Lossy' compression codecs for the
AVI Process to achieve better playback rates.
<<if you are using typical 'Lossy' compression codecs>>
Compression is customizable, including no compression for no loss.
-Brian
Hi Brian,
Stuart was right, what I meant was that *any* .AVI that I've seen until now had
horrible quality compared to .FLC files.
I admit, I've never looked behind the codecs, but all raw .avi's have been much
larger than similar flics too.
The other drawback (for me) is that I'm creating multimedia app's under DOS
with Grasp (have you ever seen a 640×480 flic with 22kHz soundtrack on a 486/33
– it's possible !) and so I've no chance at the moment to use .AVI's
Bye, Michael
Brian,
Will Animator control devices like the Targa 2000 and PAR? What about Quicktime
and Quicktime VR?
ana /krazy images
<<Will Animator control devices like the Targa 2000 and PAR? What about
Quicktime and Quicktime VR?>>
Targa 2000 and PAR drivers can be written using the developers kit. Quicktime
output will be supported. I am not familiar with Quicktime VR.
-Brian