CompuServe Thread

Thomas, Oh boy here we go again ;). OK: >Has anybody here tried to convert a VLAB movie to a Quik time movie? I've never created a QT movie, but getting the images to the MAC on my 4000 is VERY easy since it is equipt with an Emplant. Just export the images to a given directory, then copy the entire directory to the MAC side with three mouse clicks of the Emplant file transfer utility. BTW any transitions and/or effects you render in MovieShop are then part of the JPEG image stream and would be part of the QT movie – cool! I do NOT know if dealing with the associated sound files will be as easy. I just have not have the time to explore that yet. >Is capture rate dependent on the VLAB card? I think a little of both. I just did some tests, pushing my system hard, by cranking JPEG quality up to 90% and turning off all smoothing. I could not reliably record at that rate (Although the results were awesome. Laser disk quaility!) Under that load the time indicator stopped refreshing and I could not even move the mouse pointer. My 4000 was working HARD! >Can you record to videotape, the ouput of preview (the real-time cuts only playback from VLAB) Yep. In fact if all you need is to do is edit out the bad bit of one long recording (scene) with cuts only transitions you never even need to go to the time line. After cutting out the bad bits just hit play. >Can you record that slow motion? Yep, PERFECT slow motion, especially if you have planned ahead and shot the sequence with your high speed "shutter" enabled. With 1/1000 "shutter" there will be no motion blur. Of course there will be no sound during slow motion playback. >How much memory do you need? I have 18megs with 7megs allotted to the video buffer. I was getting by with lower JPEG quality and a 2meg buffer before I figured out how to increase the buffer size. >How do you digitze Do you run tape then "click" manually at??the point you want to digitize Yes. The idea is to grab slightly more than you need. Then you trim the scenes down to exactly what you want before you assemble them on the timeline. >What do you think? Ed? Paul? (re: Warp) I LOVE my Warp Engine. It gave my a speed increase, flawless SCSI-2 controller, and the ability to add LOTS of 32bit ram that is accessed at full speed. A GREAT device. If I were CEI or who ever gets the Amiga I'd dumpt to old C= cpu board, licence the Warp Engine, and only build 4000s with them. >Tocatta has a "sempte in" now?? Don't Know >Are the "renderings" destructive of the original samples? No, All edits are non destructive, changing only pointers. You can go back and try different types of transitions until you are satisfied. >have a thought that I could "render" to my 270 Syquest as a way to save pieces then clear the main drive and offload the pieces and order/render those into a longer movie. No. When you begin a project you must specify a HD partition for that project. All the parts of that project, scenes and movies are stored on that partition. Actually the rendered movie does NOT duplicate the frames of the scenes. The only thing that is added to the Video partition for a movie are the new "rendered" frames for the transitions, etc. The rest is all done with pointers. >Premiere give you one window in which you can order your original clips. Then you can grab a group and drag them to the timeline . . .this is pretty much what VLAB is capable of. Yes you can "group" clips (called scenes by MovieShop). They would then be handled as one scene in the timeline. Grouping can be many levels deep, so you can group groups if you like. >Ed (Paul's got the AGA screen), you're operating without a display card like Retina. Is that OK given that you watch VLAB video on an NTSC screen (you don't actually see running video on the Amiga, yes??); Its just the GUI that's on the Amiga right Do you open multiple windows for different modules, like Studio 16 (premiere , too). All correct. >Does 640×480 truly fill the entire NTSC screen, always? It just barely fills my 1084. But I've found that the 1084 shows much more of the picture than most normal TVs. So I think I'm pretty safe. And no "retrace" lines that I can see. …Warp Engine Engaged… -Paul-