Did anyone watch SCS's DVDA webinar today?

vtxrocketeer wrote on 2/29/2012, 1:12 PM

Very nicely done. A lot of time was devoted to the use of layered PSD files to construct and animate menus. This was my first SCS webinar. I've used DVDA for many years and it *looks* deceptively simple, though it can get quite deep, so I watched the webinar and learned something new: menu elements from a PSD file can be animated along Bezier splines. Pretty cool.

-Steve

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johnmeyer wrote on 3/6/2012, 8:40 PM

The link does not get you to where you need to go ...wrong program!Well, that was dumb of me not to catch that I was watching something from last year. It was still a useful thing to watch.

I'm even more eager now to watch the "correct" webinar. Should be fun.

Grazie wrote on 3/6/2012, 10:26 PM

Stunning! - I was out on a paid job when this Seminar happened, so I've been looking forward to getting the material from Gary.

"Setting Loop Points" to reveal Text of animated buttons is a "critical piece of the puzzle" as Gary says. I've wanted to know this ever since I got into Button Animation. Just that, was well worth the 0.45gb download . . . . . The Loop Point reveal adds just that extra part of "dramatic pause" to what could be a very non-pro, dull menu.

Still watching. . . . .

G

engr wrote on 3/7/2012, 4:26 AM

Great stuff! Didnt know DVDA could animate keyframes too.

Check out the advanced stuff from Jigital Juice as well. I learnt most of my tech from there. If you know After Effects you can create animations that are played first before the video runs. Very cool but takes time to build.

http://www.digitaljuice.com/djtv/detail.aspx?sid=598

PeterWright wrote on 3/7/2012, 4:44 AM

Wonderful webinar, thanks Gary and SCS - watch out, my next client/guinea pig!

Grazie wrote on 3/7/2012, 5:18 AM

I all that's Euclidean Logic, why don't SCS rename their 4 Colour Sets to that which Gary explained?! That would cure many of the misunderstandings. Unbelievably they are still called:

Colour Set 1

Colour Set 2

Colour Set 3

Colour Set 4

Been buggin' me for years. I thought it was me thinking that they COULD not be renamed 'cos there was a greater more fundamental logical reasoning behind it - wah!!!

One grouch I have, Bezier Paths. Don't tell me we have them with Track Motion? DO we?

Cheers

G

Peter Riding wrote on 3/7/2012, 8:57 AM

I've been moving ahead in the video to skip much of the early part of the webinar. My recommendation for anyone planning to watch this is that, unless you are a first-time user of DVD Architect, you should skip the first twenty minutes. It is very, very basic stuff.

What I've done with some of the earlier webinars is bring them into Vegas and then edit out the parts I don't want :- ) Then I just render out to MP4 a series of very short clips that have the information I want.

I could not get Vegas to recognise the .flv seminar files so I first converted them to AVI using a free utility called Pazera.

I hope there's nothing in the small print prohibiting this action for personal use!

Pete