Need a solution!

EPsymp wrote on 6/12/2003, 9:44 AM
I am making a short clip where a roll of film is scrolling across the screen, it starts waving and then blurs, when it unblurs it's a ruler and then it whips straight. After this i want the straight ruler to turn into a circle. So both ends need to come around and touch. I tried everything with adobe i could think of, but there's no simple answer to this simple task. I was thinking maybe a gradient strip which well... I don't know, any help would be appreciated.
Elias

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BillyBoy wrote on 6/12/2003, 10:01 AM
Have you tried one of the morph applications? Many to pick from, Satish, our resident software wizz also wrote one. You could probably do it other ways, but I think it would look pretty messy, which is why I suggested the morphing approach.
EPsymp wrote on 6/12/2003, 10:14 AM
Thanks, i didn't even think about morph.
I have winmorph but i've never used it. I'm away from my computer for about a week (i don't know how long i can last). Will morph distort the image at all, or is that decided by the amount anchor points i'm willing to put in?
BillyBoy wrote on 6/12/2003, 10:53 AM
The more points the smoother the morphing. For objects that are similar you probably won't need too many, more of a problem when you're turning a elephant into a mouse or silly stuff like that where the two images really have nothing in common.
EPsymp wrote on 6/18/2003, 12:14 PM
Ok, I tried this, for the most part it work well, except for the color. The line turns into a circle (with some distortion) but the problems lies in the green ruler turning into a black ring, instead of a green one (with the lines and numbers and such). So is it possible to only morph the shape in winmorph, and leave the color alone? If it's not possilbe any other suggestions?
Luxo wrote on 6/18/2003, 12:34 PM
Take a look at the Magnify veggie by Dithermaster.

http://www.sundancemediagroup.com/help/kb/kb_files.asp?sort=4&cat=0&sw=0&author=372

Examine the way he made the magnifying glass -- he turned a straight line of generated media into a circle using the cookie cutter, as I recall. Maybe that technique will help you avoid distortion, I dunno.

EDIT: Er....never mind. I remembered the project file differently. Sorry. The ring is a border, not the object turned in a circle.