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Chienworks wrote on 3/6/2002, 10:56 AM
What do you mean by elements?
Cheesehole wrote on 3/6/2002, 9:46 PM
hmmmm... I heard someone was working on a garment remover plug-in to remove those pesky 'clothing elements' from brittany spears videos...

but it isn't out yet ;) LOL

okay anyway what the heck is an element?
Chienworks wrote on 3/7/2002, 7:42 AM
I'm thinking it could mean several things.

1) basic editing, removing scenes

2) cropping out unwanted parts of the picture

3) cutting out either the sound or the picture

4) creating elemental streams for DVD encoding

In any of these cases, Vegas will do the job.
calman wrote on 3/7/2002, 2:49 PM
"cropping out unwanted parts of the picture"

I managed not that bad of a job with Jasc Software 'Animation Shop 3'.

Would prefer other better alternatives....
kkolbo wrote on 3/7/2002, 2:56 PM
Look at SF's Velocity available on this website and inexpensive. It can do basic rotoscoping.

Chienworks wrote on 3/7/2002, 3:04 PM
Vegas (and Video Factory for that matter) does an excellent job zooming in on a part of the picture and cropping the rest out. It also has several zillion other features as well.

Sadly, Viscosity appears to be no more. *sigh* I'm glad i bought my license a couple of weeks ago. *whew*. But if you want basic cropping at a cheap price, Video Factory is a better choice. Viscosity's forte is drawing on top of the frames, not video editing.
calman wrote on 3/7/2002, 3:09 PM
it's not cropping I'm after, it's the removal of elements. I want to keep the picture or video frame the same size but remove an element, such as a black cat under a ladder, bird shit on your shoulder, ketchup on your hotdog,.....

DougHamm wrote on 3/8/2002, 11:32 AM
Hey, don't touch my hotdog!

But please, if there's something you can do about this bird doodoo...

-Doug
Cheesehole wrote on 3/8/2002, 12:15 PM
I would want something with the tools of Photoshop for those tasks, especially the 'clone' tool.

I know there is some way to turn an AVI into a 'filmstrip' (.FLM) image and edit it in Photoshop, then turn it back into an AVI. oooh... that's premiere that does that. You can do some cool special effects with that technique.

- ben (cheesehole!)
jdozz wrote on 3/8/2002, 1:30 PM
Viscosity is what I would recommend but someone indicated that it is no longer available. I wonder if SF would offer a blow out deal for us folks that waited too long to order?