[Adam Henderson]

Hi guys. Thanks very much for your answers.

What it’s all about is, during my research I came across a paper written in 1983 by a fellow named William Reeves, who describes in great detail how he created the Genesis Effect animation for Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, and says all the particles used had those 7 attributes. And bearing in mind this paper was written 28 years ago I found it surprising to see attributes I recognise myself from Blender and After Effects being talked about back then in the days of the ZX Spectrum.

So now I can add into my disseration or literature review that the terms used by Reeves back then are still in use today, and I can justify using the paper in my research.

[Adam Henderson]

Hi guys. Thanks very much for your answers.

What it’s all about is, during my research I came across a paper written in 1983 by a fellow named William Reeves, who describes in great detail how he created the Genesis Effect animation for Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, and says all the particles used had those 7 attributes. And bearing in mind this paper was written 28 years ago I found it surprising to see attributes I recognise myself from Blender and After Effects being talked about back then in the days of the ZX Spectrum.

So now I can add into my disseration or literature review that the terms used by Reeves back then are still in use today, and I can justify using the paper in my research.

[Adam Henderson]

Hi.

Did you get this sorted? Is the video stretched horizontally or vertically?

Have you tried Right-Clicking on video asset (not the timeline), choosing ‘Interpret Footage’ and then setting it to the desired aspect ratio in the drop down?

[Adam Henderson]

Sorry to bump this but I’m having the same problem. It happens if I do something as simple as changing the end action on a timeline. All of a sudden, “Untranscoded”.

Can anybody shed some light on this?

[Adam Henderson]

lol, this is too funny!

Winnebago Man rocks 🙂

What on earth have I gotten myself into….?

[Adam Henderson]

I’m a student so forgive my naivete. I just thought that with the price of suites like Avid and how they’re used by major studios, they might have a feature in them to pull video off of discs for legitimate purposes. The guy that sent me these discs is the guy that created the shows contained on them.

[Adam Henderson]

Sorry, I know it’s an iffy subject. I just thought there might be some legit way of doing it that you guys knew about.

Forget I mentioned it 🙂

Adam.

[Adam Henderson]

Thought I’d upload this final screenshot for comparison. It’s taken me two intensive days (not to mention the 3 or 4 spent on it before you helped me) but the result’s been worth it 😀

Thanks again dude!

[Adam Henderson]

You’ve done it! Check it out:

It looks really sloppy in places ’cause of the work done before trying your suggestion but I can say with confidence that it’s going to produce an absolutely gorgeous result! Thank you so much!

[Adam Henderson]

Hi Michael. Great DV analogy 🙂

Guess I’ll have to try some masking. It won’t be a big deal since, thankfully, the actress hardly moves during the shot. Great idea on the screen blending mode. I’ll give that a try and let you know how it works out.

I don’t even think it would be a problem if I had a moving backdrop to create some “something” behind the veil but unfortunately the blank plate is a five minute shot of a hospital room wall :/

Thanks for all your advice 🙂

Just out of interest, would you happen to know what resolution films like Transformers or Star Trek are made in? I’ve been wanting to set up a comp of that size to see how my machine copes.

(I’m guessing not well: dual core 2.66, 6 gigs of RAM and a 512MB graphics card)