Bas Wolters
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Try switching the field priority, i.e. lower or upper field first. I believe PAL and NTSC are opposite field priorities.
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Hey Aharon, your DVD is excellent! The tutorial on displacement mapping alone is worth the cost of the entire DVD and you definitively cleared up all last unknowns w.r.t. exporting & importing with alpha channel.
I like the speed of your tutorials as I usually loose interest quickly with other programs due to their slow pace. Going through your DVD I had to use the break several times but never wished for an accelerator. Great job and looking forward to the next disc!
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I’m impressed with your ‘camera work’ as it did a good job making the stills come to life. Personally I don’t care for the 3D transitions and find that cross-fades work well as they indicate passage of time which is what actually happened between the times the photos were taken. Last, a different choice of music would add more emotion and emotion is what these personal photo slide shows are all about.
A good job though and the above is just my opinion.
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After exporting the position data from PI to a tab-delimited text file you can copy the data into MS Excel and save it as a csv file. I understand the next version of PI will allow you to export additional parameters such as emitter properties.
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You can also make a simple table showing Beats Per Second vs. Frames Per Second; then you know exactly which key frames will be in sync with the music.
For example, a 120 BPMinute soundtrack has 2 beats per second. PAL video runs at 25 FPS so there are 12.5 frames per beat. If you list them all out (12.5, 25, 37.5, 50, etc.) for the entire sound sample you won’t get lost and your PI footage will be animated in perfect sync.
Good luck and don’t forget to post the results!
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Can you make PI work for your 4:3 projects? In NTSC a square pixel is ‘converted’ to a 0.9 ratio pixel for 4:3 projects and to a 1.2 ratio pixel for 16:9 projects. This ‘conversion’ is done by your editing program and there is no need to do this in PI.
As a comparison, digital photo cameras only use square pixels and don’t offer 0.9 or 1.2 pixel ratios. But that doesn’t stop anyone from importing photos into their videos, right?
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