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Content Aware Scaling within Avid
Is anyone aware of any Avid AVX plugin capable of “Content Aware Scaling;” i.e., compresses or expands unimportant parts of an image while leaving the more important parts alone. This effect currently is available in Photoshop CS4 and I believe AfterEffect CS4. I’d like to do it within a MediaComposer running 3.1.3 software on a Nitris II platform.
Thank you.
M. Scott Cole
Senior Post Production Editor
60 MINUTES
CBS News, NYC
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Not there.
And Adobe purchased the technology (and the company I seem to recall) for doing that so it may not be available to others.
Terence Curren
http://www.alphadogs.tv
http://www.digitalservicestation.com
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Cut out principals and properties in PS than animate as desired in AE. I like just a liiitle bit od scale change while keyframming a blur on just the background.
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Terence,
Thanks for the info, not what I hoped to hear, but that’s life.Grinner,
I’m trying to do something a whole lot more subtle than that. If you watch 60 MINUTES you know we open our show with a tease within a “magazine cover.” Of course that cover is the opposite aspect ratio of how every other TV shot is composed. In addition to that, we have the 60 MINUTES logo covering a good part of the upper left corner of the video. Some shots fall right in with no problems but many shots require a bit of tweaking, stretching out the top of the video without stretching the rest of the shot, so as to leave guests eyes below the word MINUTES. The other issue I often face is two shots of interviews with the correspondent and the subject separated by a large gap. I was looking for an elegant,yet subtle way to horizontally compress that space while not compressing the two principles in the shot. “Content Aware Scaling” seems like a great way to do this, however I also deal with production people who have a certain way of wanting to work, and I’m not sure that importing the shot out of Avid, processing and then re-importing is something they’d have the patience for, so that’s why I was hoping for an AVX plug-in to do the trick.M. Scott Cole
Senior Post Production Editor
60 MINUTES
CBS News, NYC
sc6@cbsnews.com
mscottc@comcast.net
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