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#Vlan and Rotoscoping

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#66899From: Andrew McClaryNov 16, 1993 10:45 PM
Help! I finnally got DIGITGA to work from the command line. (For some reason my controller had the wrong driver or it was corrupted. I have an Animmax 2.) Then I set DIGISET and made a batch file as follows. @CALL DIGITGA This was put in the first line of the Video Post (3ds R3) and the next line was diplaying that file as a background. Nothing! 3DS said it called the external process, but the VTR did nothing, and no background. This worked in R2 I thought. Is there something that I am missing or a problem in R3? 🙁 Thanks Andrew
#67083From: John SlaterNov 18, 1993 12:52 AM
Just so you know, I've had a similar problem with my ATVista and the VLAN digitizing software. Like you I thought it worked in R2, but now I can't seem to get it to work in either version. My guess is we should be talking to Videomedia (Larry Rask 72056,1316) since it appears that 3ds Video Post calls the digitizing program correctly. Please let me know if you find out anything about this, my workaround is extremely crude and slow. Thanks, -John Slater
#67152From: Andrew McClaryNov 18, 1993 12:13 PM
After playing around till 3:00am, I finally decided to try downloading the drivers for my 7750 to the vlan again. It worked. For some reason, the drivers had been changed. (It worked OK when I used OZ for editing though.) I also found that instead of calling a batch file as I had done in R2, you can just call the DIGITGA.EXE directly in videopost. More elegant than before. I still would like to know how the vlan driver was corrupted though. Andrew McClary Graphic Alchemy
#67698From: Larry RaskNov 22, 1993 3:26 PM
Are you still having problems with rotoscoping? I have not tested it with release 3 Video Post, but I didn't anticipate any problems. The key is that you have the digitga.exe and digiset.ini file in the maps or images directory, otherwise it won't perform the grab. Let me know.
#67791From: John TissavaryNov 23, 1993 2:54 AM
Hi Larry, how are you? I'd love to chat with you about Turbo_1c.exe sometime. Please give me a ring at (415) 673-0812. Thanks, John Tissavary (La Luna cie)
#67939From: Larry RaskNov 23, 1993 6:01 PM
John, Hi. I've been a little busy. I have a new version for you (and other beta sites if they want). A couple of bugs have been fixed. I don't know if they all relate to the problems you were having. Try it out anyway. Use the offset to make sure all of the frames get displayed in time. The version numbe ttga_1d. L.
#68270From: John TissavaryNov 25, 1993 3:03 AM
Thanks, Larry. I've got it installed, and when my tga's are rendered I'll give it a try. John Tissavary (La Luna cie)
#67880From: Andrew McClaryNov 23, 1993 1:51 PM
Larry, Figured it out. For some unkown reason my V-Lan Receiver had the wrong or messed up drivers. I downloaded the drivers for my 7750 and it worked. (Strange since I haven't downloaded any new driver to them since installed, and Oz seemed to work fine. Rotoscoping was the only problem.) Andrew Graphic Alchemy