look at what, wcoxe1? texture generation in axogon or something else?

Satish,

I think wcoxe1 was refering to a post I made about nine lines up about writing a plug in for Vegas. I did think of you Satish, but I was hoping there might be some other programmers out there who use Vegas. I figured you have your hands full with the Photoshop and AE plugins you were working on, and the rotoscoping plugin you said you were considering.

JBJones

I noticed only after you mentioned now... As you say, currently i'm having my hands full. Let me release the Photoshop plugin adapter first and then think of other ventures.

Personally I would like to see rotoscoping and automatic object tracking within Vegas rather than texture generation. If I had to choose.

JBJones

Weird. How are you attaching the files? I'm betting it's something the server won't allow -- try .zip or failing that, just email me with no attachments and we'll make other arrangements. Thanks,

- jim

Marquat, If I understand what you mean, you can fix that in one of two ways. Change the properties on the multimedia clip from PAR=1 to PAR=0.889. This will stretch the clip to fill the frame. Or you could go into Pan/Crop and right click on the video and select Match Output Aspect which will crop the clip to fill the frame. Both will get rid of the black area. Is that what you meant?

~jr

Hi JBJones...
I tried creating QuickTime JPEG image sequences, but must admit I don't know what to do with all the separate files (each frame). How do you combine those into a motion JPEG file?
(I must admint I haven't looked very hard - Ligos 5.11 gives me quite good quality.)

Thanks,
Tom

Well first of all I had rendered the textures from Axogon Composer as an uncompressed AVI file. That way I was able to experiment with what compression compared best to the original.

Actually, I noticed that Quicktime JPEG sequence was the format that Digital Juice used for a couple demo clips on a CD they sent me a while back. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have thought of trying it. But I'm glad I did since it seems to compress really well with very few artifacts.

The way I was creating the format was with Batch Converter 5. From there you just select Quicktime as your file format under the output file settings. Then in the custom options you can the video format to Photo-JPEG. I looked at the options in Axogon Composer and it seems like it should be similar. Are you saying your JPEG sequence is not wrapped in a MOV container?

JBJones

Correct ..
For a 4sec loop I had 119 individual JPG files, sequentially numbered.
On that machine QT is at 5.0.2 level.
Tom

|Update:
Of course had I chosen the correct QT settings, it would have been obvious. Feel very foolish. I chose JPEG, thinking it would automagically end up in a single motion JPEG file.

I'll try the QT - Photo JPG route later tonite.
Thanks for the pointer.
Tom

Hi Jim,

I have just fired of another test message to make sure it can 'get through'.

Cheers,
Wayne

I guess I'm doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what. I can create the random patterns, but when I render or preview I get the exact same frame repeated all of the way through, there is no motion or change. Also, in the preview window I have a play button, not frame forward or backward buttons. This is version .93.

Anyone have a clue what isn't set up right?

Thanks

PV

Nevermind - I found it. The key was to use the keyboard arrows. If I did not at least step thru one frame beyond the first, it would render ONLY the first frame for the duration of the animation instead of progressing.

PV

Wayne (biggles)

Would you mind firing those attachments my way as well? ritchiej at hillfamily.net as well as ritchiej at ruddco.com (I am not sure if either will reject attachments above a certain size)

Thanks

I have 11 - 15 and 21 - 25; a kind soul willing to help me fill in the gaps can send the rest to psburn@shaw.ca.

Thanks,

Peter

Hi,

Tues am EDT USA,

16-20 are back up at MC...


mph

If anyone of you folks out there that have managed to get 1-15 would email them to curt@myndsimedia.com, I would really appreciate it. Or maybe someone would post them on a site somewhere? If someone sends them to me, I will post them and put a link up here.

Thanks in advance!

I only have the PAL versions of the loops, so I'm probably not much of a pal to all of you in NTSC land :o)

Wayne

Well, since we are talking background loops and not detailed paintings by the masters, they would convert just fine to NTSC. A squish here, a stretch there and slightly different speed means nothing for background loops. If you've got them, then we can convert them.

Will anyone send me loops 1-15 for MainConcept? Just zip them up and email to curt@myndsimedia.com.

I just looked and can find only 21 - 25. Where on the site should I look?

peter