I've been using Vegas as an Audio App for years. I've recorded and mixed a few albums for local bands here in the ATL.
And thanks to a crazy amount of SonyPoints on my credit card, (Buying Airline tix and the like for world-traversing musicians stacks up those points) I upgraded my car stereo, my wife's car stereo, scored a lot of DVDs, and still had points left over.
So I got a digital Camcorder which firewires over to my laptop super simple.
But I don't have interest in video projects as much as I have a recent kink for low-fi animation.
A) Does anyone here have animation experience on a 'puter platform? what software?
b) Here's what I'd like to see in a platform- I'd like to set up my camcorder on a tripod about four feet rom a wall where I can mount Gilliam-esqe landscapes and use cut-out items. I'd like to fire the shutter from the computer so that the camera/camcorder doesn't move.
Capture (via firewire)single frames of animation that could be then rendered as tidbits a second, or a few seconds long, that would then be dropped into Vegas for syncing with audio. You can imagine that a close up of a talking face .3 sec rendering could be looped for sentences of a second or two. Basically, what I want is a visual version of what ACID does for audio... ACID has been a great compostiton tool for me, because I can make a project as simple, or as complex as I want to. I've used the same platform to quickly author a short music tidbit as a skecth for another musician, and I've used it to create grand funky soundscapes.
Ohh, the idea of Blue-screening would be Hott-with-two-T's also. The more I think about what I could use the more my mind reels. I imagine in this Youtube world, a simple animation platform would be a hot seller...
Comments, anyone? Is there an animation platform as simple to use as the Sonic Foundry platforms.
And thanks to a crazy amount of SonyPoints on my credit card, (Buying Airline tix and the like for world-traversing musicians stacks up those points) I upgraded my car stereo, my wife's car stereo, scored a lot of DVDs, and still had points left over.
So I got a digital Camcorder which firewires over to my laptop super simple.
But I don't have interest in video projects as much as I have a recent kink for low-fi animation.
A) Does anyone here have animation experience on a 'puter platform? what software?
b) Here's what I'd like to see in a platform- I'd like to set up my camcorder on a tripod about four feet rom a wall where I can mount Gilliam-esqe landscapes and use cut-out items. I'd like to fire the shutter from the computer so that the camera/camcorder doesn't move.
Capture (via firewire)single frames of animation that could be then rendered as tidbits a second, or a few seconds long, that would then be dropped into Vegas for syncing with audio. You can imagine that a close up of a talking face .3 sec rendering could be looped for sentences of a second or two. Basically, what I want is a visual version of what ACID does for audio... ACID has been a great compostiton tool for me, because I can make a project as simple, or as complex as I want to. I've used the same platform to quickly author a short music tidbit as a skecth for another musician, and I've used it to create grand funky soundscapes.
Ohh, the idea of Blue-screening would be Hott-with-two-T's also. The more I think about what I could use the more my mind reels. I imagine in this Youtube world, a simple animation platform would be a hot seller...
Comments, anyone? Is there an animation platform as simple to use as the Sonic Foundry platforms.