Creating A cartoon fr Video by Aharon Rabinowitz

[Alan Mills]

I was having a play with this batch feature – right before Ahron produced his excellent tutorial (solving just about all my problems – where is that javascript file documented btw?).

In my playing I noticed that if Illustrator was not open then the batch process would maybe get as far as starting Illustrator only not work as expected. Make sure Illustrator CS2 is open and then initiate the batch process.

I’m not sure what the rules may be defined as but, from memory, this is what was happening for me.

[Manny Rellesiva]

Yes, I have my Illustrator CS2 open when I was working on this tutorial. I have 1Gig of RAM and only Illustrator CS2 was open and so there is no memory issue. What else I could be missing?

[Gmiller]

I’m having the same problem. Have you come up with a solution?

[Warrenahc]

I’m having exactly the same trouble. I’ve started doing a job using this process and now I’m stuck.

[Lyon Films]

Has anyone had a problem when following the tutorial directions that when you get to Adobe Bridge there is no Illustrator under “Tools”? I have the Production Bundle Premium and therefore both AE and Illustrator, but only Photoshop CS2 shows up when in Bridge under Tools. I really want to finish my cartoon effect, but am unable to batch process b/c Illustrator simply isn’t an option under Tools.

Help!

[Chris Hillman]

Hi all. Planning to shoot a short, and add lots of juicy effects a la “Scanner Darkly.” Found a great tutorial by Aharon Rabinowitz which utilizes Illustrator CS2 to do just that. HOWEVER… a problem!

My comments here regard the file which ought to be residing at the described path at 1:57 in this tutorial: https://forums.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/cartoon_look/Cartoon_Part_2/index.htm

I have to alter a crucial script. No problem; I did it at work today on a PC (using the PC path). Now, I’m on my Mac. The suggested path is: (System Drive) > Library > Application Support > Adobe > Startup Scripts… I have navigated to that path on my system (1.67 GHZ PowerBook G4). No such file.

I searched under Spotlight, and found a “LiveTrace.js” file under Applications > Adobe Illustrator CS2 > Presets > Scripts. Its icon indicates that it wishes to open with Dreamweaver. It’s only a short script which is identical to a prompt received when I’m in an Illustrator session and I navigate to File > Scripts > Livetrace. It’s an “exclamation” which states: You can batch trace files using Bridge. Please look under Tools > Illustrator > Live Trace… in Bridge for complete options. Then you click “OK.”

But it’s not as though I don’t HAVE the Live Trace feature. It’s definitely there inside Illustrator. Just can’t find the jsx file. Any thoughts?

“Like flaming globes, Sigmund…”

[Francisco Stoll]

did you ever figure out the problem with livetrace, im stuck

[Chris Hillman]

UPDATE: I have upgraded to CS3, and you no longer have to edit the jsx file anyway, as CS3 appears to allow 50,000 files to batch trace.

I am still annoyed that I couldn’t figure out how to adapt Aharon’s tutorial for Mac. I’m usually better at that sort of thing. 🙂

So, using CS3 I’ve duplicated Aharon’s workflow, adding in a step to batch process the ai files into jpegs. I then string those together to Image Sequence movies using Quicktime Pro, and edit using Final Cut. So far, so good.

“Like flaming globes, Sigmund…”

[Francisco Stoll]

hey, i figured it out. alll i did was go back in the script and capitolize the .RGB, and that did it, weird, thanks though

[Michael Breeden]

Has anyone had a problem when following the tutorial directions that when you get to Adobe Bridge there is no Illustrator under “Tools”? I have the Production Bundle Premium and therefore both AE and Illustrator, but only Photoshop CS2 shows up when in Bridge under Tools.

I’m running into this same problem, Did anyone ever come up with a solution?