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Pushing the limits of cheap software
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nicely done, sir.
To this day, I still grab good ole Elastic Reality for cool custom transition elements.
It’s dawning on me that I started on After Effects when it was made by CoSa. lol
flashback. That’s when rendering waited for friday evening. Remember strata studio pro?
or the first version of Lightwave that came with the toaster?
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We had Crystal 3D Impact Pro bundled with our Discreet Edit* system and it was one of my favorite toys. Does way more than just flying type, and dirt-simple to use. Basically it was TOPAS, which I had been sgtruggling to learn, with keyframing removed and replaced with canned moves. And while those canned moves were limiting, you could group and stack them to make more complex moves.
When my boys came to visit me at work, they would use the freehand drawing tool, extrusion and grouping functions to build massive galactic star cruisers and killer robots in this program. It was as easy to use as Windows Paint. I often used to it extrude 3-d logos out of a simple business card from a client. One time I built animated prescription pill bottles full of actual individual pills and labels, all out of variations on one single circle, and made a snorkle-type micro dolly move thru my still life composition with an animated camera, all in about an hour, something that would have taken me a week with my sketchy Lightwave skills.
If there wasa way to keep this program alive I would buy a second copy for home use just for fun.
Maybe the successor to Crystal 3-D Impact Pro in the 64-bit world is Zaxwerks, I have only seen online demos but it seems to have a lot of the same feel to it.
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ah,…Topaz, Tips and Rio….single framing to 3/4 via a BCD-2000 frame controller……….man, what a trip.
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I like it a lot!
As far as the conversation about it’s not technology, it’s the people who create it. I just have to mention that my first ever attempt at post production was with Two old VCRs (one made such a loud grinding noise you had to crank up the volume knob on the push button TV I had to hear the audio), a cassette tape deck for music, a bunch of cables, and for titles and such I used the classic Super Nintendo Mario Paint that I borrowed from my little brother! No one could figure out how I managed to put it all together considering I had no access to any video editing equipment. It was that setup that got me hooked into video production in the first place.
Jeff Bonano
http://www.bonanoproductions.com“I want to have a cool quote at the bottom of my signature, just like everyone else on the cow forum!” -Jeff Bonano
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