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taliesin wrote on 6/5/2002, 4:50 PM
I have AlamDV installed but because I'm new to VV I had not yet time to test it.
What surely should work with AlamDV is if you export your VV-Video as uncompressed AVI.

Marco
Rodb wrote on 6/5/2002, 6:54 PM
Hi
l have been told that there is quite a few issues with AlamDV , l dont know myself as l havent used it since version one , but that was crash heaven so l have not tried it again .
l use "illusion " and feel its the best special effects software going , very easy to use and very powerfull , this what the AE hollywood pros use .
The down side is it cost more than Alam but l think its worth it ,awesome proggy.

http://www.coolfun.com/illusion/

Rod
taliesin wrote on 6/5/2002, 7:39 PM
I do use AlamDV quite a long time now, but I fed it with video edited in CineStream. The very first version of AlamDV were proofed to be unstable but things changed. I have the latest version before version 2 which is rather stable too.
I think AlamDV can't provide a regular FX-software power, it is made for light-fx only. This way it is VERY easy to use. It takes you some minutes to create a light-saber fight or to have a lightning crawling around a body.
If those kinds of StarWars- or Ghostbusters-FX are all you wanna do you are pretty well served with AlamDV. If this would be just a part of the FX-work you wanna do, you'd better choose a different app for the job.

Marco
Stiffler wrote on 6/6/2002, 1:12 AM
jyarb..

I am trying to get the AlamDV demo to work. I imported a dv-avi (captured in Vegas), and when I play it, I sometimes have a grey box, and sometimes just a bunch of pixels jumping around.



taliesin wrote on 6/6/2002, 8:54 AM
Jon, I would suggest using a different AVI-codec or use uncrompressed AVI for the work in AlamDV.

Marco
tserface wrote on 6/6/2002, 4:17 PM
I believe that Alam only works with uncompressed AVI (not DV). You could try rendering just the part of the video you want to modify without using a compression and see if Alam will use it. Then you can use the result from Alam back in Vegas and it will be recompressed back to DV when you render the final project there.

Tom
taliesin wrote on 6/6/2002, 4:32 PM
At least I can import QuicktimeDV. Have no time right now to test it with VV-AVIs but I'll do that some days later.

Marco
taliesin wrote on 6/6/2002, 5:05 PM
O.k. - you got me ;-)

I tested it with a VV-captured sequence. - It failed.
I tested it with same sequence but rendered to Cinepak-AVI. - It failed.

Then I scanned the AlamDV help file and I found under 'Getting Started'/'Importing Movie Files':

"AlamDV can only import files of type *.avi, *.qt, *.mov.
The avi files have to be raw avi - uncompressed.
So no use of codecs such as Divx."

So AlamDV definetely does NOT support VV-captured AVI. You either have to use uncompressed AVI (which is the best way to preserve quality!) or you have to render to Quicktime before.

Marco
drdespair wrote on 6/6/2002, 5:13 PM
I use IntroDV to capture DV in QT format, most of the so called codecs for DV are just wrappers so its a matter of finaly mixing QT with AvI in VV3.
Luxo wrote on 6/6/2002, 9:10 PM
The few times I've used ALAMDV, I've exported quicktime files from Vegas, which seem to work okay. Unfortunately, partly because they return as 32 bit instead of 24, the colors differ from my master DV files and I have to make levels adjustments.

I've alerted the ALAM staff on their forums to the problem with Vegas AVIs, but it would appear the program has some more pressing bugs. ;-)

Luxo