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#139399From: Mitch GatesDec 2, 1994 6:15 PM
Now that I have your attention, can I ask a few questions? I own a PAR card and will be getting the TBC IV soon. I plan to buy Razor Pro or Premiere (if they add PAR support as promised) so I can do a little desktop editing. I'm wondering how Razor handles the playback of sound with video from the PAR. This is the way I'm assuming this setup works: 1) I grab any desired video with my TBC to the PAR drive. 2) I record the audio that goes with the video clips using my sound software to a system drive. 3) I use RP to assemble by video, animation and audio clips, along with any transitions and filters in the construction window (Premiere speak <g>). 4) I build the movie back to the PAR drive. Does the soundtrack go to a sister file on a system drive? 5) When I play the finished movie from Razor, it activates the video from the PAR and the audio from my sound card, all in perfect sync. Please let me know if I am way off here. This is just my best guess of the way it would work, judging form my experience with the PAR and VideoVision Studio with Premiere on the Mac. Will Razor allow you to play back full 16bit, 44.1khz audio with a PAR clip? Since it looks like I will have to grab video and audio separatlely (right?), will it be a chore to match up the tracks, especially if there is speech involved? Am I making this more complicated than it really is? Well, anyway………If anyone has any comments or input, PLEASE reply. Thanks Mitch
#139514From: Jamie CarrDec 3, 1994 11:43 AM
Mitch, You were right on with your guess as to how it works. You record audio to your DOS drive and then you can play back the audio from the DOS drive with the animation coming back from the PAR. RAZOR PRO does support 44.1kHz 16 bit stereo playback. It does not currently support audio compression. Jamie Carr in:sync
#139739From: Mitch GatesDec 4, 1994 8:16 PM
Do you happen to have a text file you could send me describing RP's features? The more details the better. Thanks Mitch
#140556From: Jamie CarrDec 7, 1994 11:31 PM
Mitch, You were asking about RAZOR PRO's features – Here's some of them: Features: -An infinite number of layers of video clips and stills can be composited together -An infinite number of audio tracks can be composited together -Video clips and stills can be up to 2000×2000 pixels -Can read and write ANI files (created by the Personal Animation Recorder) -Can read and write DVM files (created by the TARGA 2000) -Can read and write sequences of Targa files in any color depth up to 32 bit -Can read and write BMP files in any color depth up to 32 bit -Can read and write FLC and FLI files -Can read and write AVI files using any Video for Windows installable compressor/decompressor such as the Microsoft Video 1, Cinepak and Intel Indeo codecs -Can read and write WAV audio files -Convert files between any of the following formats: ANI, DVM, AVI, BMP, TGA, FLC, FLI, WAV, PAL -Audio can be up to CD quality -Each audio clip has a volume graph allowing you to alter the colume of that clip over time -Source materials, transitions, and effects are all stored in the Library for easy project management -RAZOR PRO comes with a number of digital effects which can be applied to images including color correction, tint, brighness, contrast, glass, displacement, pixelate, emboss, invert -RAZOR PRO accepts third party plug-ins such as Elastic Reality's transjammer, Aldus Gallery Effects and Kai's Power tools -Effects can be applied to more than one source -Sub pixel rendering for incredibly smooth motion -Video clips can be combined using alpha channel, chroma key, still or travelling mattes -RAZOR PRO comes with a number of transitions including wipes, cross fades, luminance fades and matte fades where an image is used to perform a fade over time -Customizable wipe transition that wipes in any direction and angle and even allows you to change the angle of the wipe during the wipe -Effects and transitions are stackable so that they can be applied to the result of an effect or the result of a transition. There is no limit to the number of effects which can be applied to a clip -Transitions can be applied between two or more clips allowing you for instance to apply transitions between picture in a picture clips at the same time as applying a transition between two background clips -Transition and effects are rendered using true field rendering eg wipes are filed rendered giving smooth wipes -Output the files without a background (in 32 bit) -Use the character Generator to create titles for your project. Uses any truetype font in any size, style, color. -Can also be used with matte effect in order to create textured text -Use the DVE generator to move and rotate images and text around the screeen in three dimensions. Uses sub pixel positioning for ultra smooth motion -Use the RAZOR tool to cut up clips -Trim a clip whilst maintaining the relative position of all the other clips If you've got any questions, please feel free to ask… Jamie Carr in:sync
#140253From: Hansoo KimDec 6, 1994 11:42 PM
>> You were right on with your guess as to how it works. >> You record audio to your DOS drive and then you can play back the audio >> from the DOS drive with the animation coming back from the PAR. Can you tell me how to do that? I'm trying to get .ani file loaded into Razor Pro and put sound , then render back to PAR. I noticed that when you choose ani format in output option, you can't set any sound option. If it still do sound at the dos drive, how can I play them both(ani and sound) at the same time? And also how can I change settings in MCI-PAR driver? I can't change anything. Well.. I could change Film Playback and speed and that's all. How can I set Sound Association setting? Thank you.
#140557From: Jamie CarrDec 7, 1994 11:31 PM
Hansoo, To play back a PAR file with audio, go into the media player and open the PAR ANI file. Then go to 'Configure' under the Device menu and you will see an option to attach a sound file to the ANI animation. Press play on the media player and the ANI file will play back with the sound. Jamie Carr in:sync
#141102From: Hansoo KimDec 10, 1994 8:25 PM
>>To play back a PAR file with audio, go into the media player and open the >> PAR ANI file. Then go to 'Configure' under the Device menu and you will >> see an option to attach a sound file to the ANI animation. >> Press play on the media player and the ANI file will play back with the >> sound. >> Jamie Carr >> in:sync Thank you for the info. Right after I sent last message I could found the solution. I have another question. When I start Razor Pro, it gives me a error message, 'Can't write to device AUX'. But I still can use the program no problem(?). After using the program, when I close the program it gives me another error message, 'AVLIBRAR caused a General Protection Fault In module MSVIDEO.DLL at 0006:038A' And also in the translation effect window, if I choose one of translation effect(like bottom to top,etc), it just throw me out the window and for a while I can't start the program. It just gives me General Protection Error. Thank you. Hansoo
#141286From: Jamie CarrDec 12, 1994 2:14 AM
Hansoo, I believe you have an old version of the software. Please download the latest version from our BBS. Jamie Carr in:sync
#141690From: Hansoo KimDec 13, 1994 10:24 PM
>>Hansoo, >> I believe you have an old version of the software. Please download the >> latest version from our BBS. >> Jamie Carr >> in:sync I downloaded latest version(v1.1) and still has that error massages. I found newest MSVIDEO.DLL has some kind of conflict with my system. I reinstalled MSVIDEO.DLL with older version and General Protection Fault error is disappeard. But still gives me 'Can't write to device AUX' error. I will try myself to find what is wrong and will let you know. BTW, The latest version I downloaded from your BBS is v1.1 right? When I check the version on 'Help' about Razor Pro, it says v1.0. Is it nomal? or do I need to delete some files from windows/system directory? I found there is no Razor Pro related file in other directories, though. Gee, I have another question. 🙂 I added some transition from Elastic Reality but the Library shows nothing. How can I use these transitions? I added some Aldus add-on to effect and they are working fine. Do you have other add-ons available? Thank you. P.S/ Thank you for your exellent support and great product.
#142129From: Jamie CarrDec 16, 1994 1:17 AM
Hansoo, The latest version on the BBS is actually 1.0a. Its dated 12/15/94. This version should fix the 'Can't write to device AUX' which is an error message which appears but if you click on 'OK' it will still work fine. We believe we've fixed this. It's stange about the msvideo.dll – did you get an error message when you were playing ANI files with the media player ? I don't believe that the version of Elastic Reality's transjammer which works with RAZOR PRO has been released yet – I will check tomorrow – it has been in development for some time and they are working on the final version. Kai's Power tools works with RAZOR PRO and we are currently in development of a bunch of new effects. In the latest release you will find our glass effect and displacement effects. The titler is included in the new version. We now have FLC/FLI support and we also have the ability to save out an ANI file with a WAV to separate drives. The two files are referenced by a .prj file which you save on the DOS drive. Jamie Carr in:sync
#143234From: Hansoo KimDec 21, 1994 10:26 PM
Hi, Jamie. I downloaded Razor Pro v1.0a and it does not reconize my serial #. Thanks. Hansoo
#143239From: Virtually RealDec 21, 1994 10:59 PM
I too am having the same problem with 1.0a, hopefully we can get it up and running soon. Dean Oliver Virtually Real
#143353From: Hansoo KimDec 22, 1994 2:43 PM
>>I too am having the same problem with 1.0a, hopefully we can get it up and >>running soon. >>Dean Oliver >>Virtually Real I hope so too. I called them several times but their massage is full. I hope I get the solution as soon as possible. Hansoo