#Rotoscoping
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Nick,
Does Visual Reality have a way to render an animation in front of another,
pre-existing animation?
For example, let's say I render a fly-by of a landscape in VistaPro, so I
have a series of .TGA frames. Now I want to bring them in, one at a time, to
Renderize and put do a spaceship flying through them. Is that clear? Can I do
it?
TIA,
..mark
Hi Mark:
The current version of Renderize Live in Visual Reality does not support
animated backgrounds, which would be the easiest way of accomplishing your
task. You could use Renderize Live to render the spaceship over an alpha
channel background, which would then be dropped out and overlayed onto the
animated landscape in another software package. Since we currently don't
animate objects, you'd be moving the camera position relative to the spaceship
to make it appear to move. In a nutshell, you can get there from here, but it
would be a long walk.
Nick Josephs
Visual Software
I'm not sure about Visual Reality, but a great tool for that kind of work is
Adobe Premiere, either the Mac or Windows version. It loads .FLC, .AVI and
Quicktime files, and I believe it will load a sequential series of bitmapped
files as well (not sure what format, though.) You can have up to 99 channels
of video or animation that you can then overlay with effects. It's a fabulous
program.
Best regards,
Loyd Case
Thanks for the info, Loyd:
I know there are a number of good animation authoring tools, but I don't know
enough to make recommendations. Your input is appreciated.
Best regards,
Nick Josephs
Visual Software
>great tool for that kind of work is Adobe Premiere<
Any idea as to the $$ ?
TIA,
..mark
Adobe is about to release version 4.0 of Premiere for Windows. (Current version
is 1.1a which sells for $199.00) It will retail for 699.00 and will have an
introductory price of $499.00. I believe there may be competitve upgrades for
it as well. If that is a little too rich for your blood, In:Sync puts out an
excellent digital video editor called Razor for $199.00 (Razor Pro will be
released next month for $799.00). All of these products offer plugin
capabilites as well as DVE (digital video effects) including chroma-keying,
fades, wipes, etc. They also support infinite video and audio tracks. They
will accept AVI, Quicktime, FLC, sequential Targas, stills, and many other
formats as well. There is no picking one over the other, it is all a matter of
what requirements need to be met. I use them both and given the choice between
them would be a difficult task.
I hope this answered some of your questions. If not, drop me a line anytime.
Dean Oliver
Virtually Real
The list price is something like $800, but you can often find great deals, and
it's also bundled with many video capture cards. Interestingly, you can
sometimes find the Windows version a LOT cheaper (< $350) than the Mac version.
Loyd Case
Loyd,
Just for your information, the list price of Adobe Premiere for Windows 4.0 is
$695.00 with a special introductory price of $495.00. This is according to the
Fall 1994 Reviewer's Guide and Competitive Analysys that I recieved with my
beta only last week.
Dean
Thanks for the info. At one time (an earlier rev), the list price for the Mac
version was $795.
As ever,
Loyd
Yeah, that caused a lot of confusion amongst the Mac and Windoze world. Like
Premiere for the Mac was at ver 3.0 and the Windoze ver was only at 1.1. It was
also a much scaled down version on the IBM side. Now both platforms have
version 4.0 and they are feature for feature compatible. Very nice program
(IMHO). I see a day (very soon) that people are using digital video editors
the to the same capacity as their word processor.
Dean
I have to agree with your observation about everyday use, although maybe not
like word processors; someone's gotta shoot the video…
But it will be like the DTP revolution, and people who want to make videos and
movies with great effects will be able to do it cheaply. You gotta have
something to fill up 500 channels…
Loyd Case