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… Sorry, I AM blind… its been moved to the Generate effect bank… ooops!

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Wow, floop.. that is a massive help… I’m looking forward to experimenting with the methods you’ve so generously shared.. Very informative indeed.

Thanks a million man,

All the very best.

=)

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Thanks steve…

Of course you’re right – the method used for that style of 3d utilised two cameras to capture the footage.. I suppose I thought that only the new type of really 3d film used specialised technology and the old 3d films just did a cheap effect, like a film version of those 3d images you used to get on the back of cornflakes packets.. maybe thats the kind of effect the plugin you mention does.. if it does, that will do nicely.. I must have a look for that so…

thanks again =)

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Hi Steve..

Thanks for that condensed and concise explaination of fields and framerates.. I was actually aware of interlacing and such but I had forgotten the name for the groups of slices on the screen… lost a few braincells a couple of years back! ehem..

But with my original post I should have mentioned some examples of the kind of effect I was trying to achieve with my animation. in particular, there is a DVD by ‘Meam’ (for which I just included a link to the distibutor in my reply to another suggestion to my post by Jonathan Miller.. save you going to check that reply- shop.skam.co.uk/acatalog/Skam_Records_MEAM_6 ,or Alex Rutterford’s video for Autechre’s ‘Gantz graf’)

If you can possibly check either of these pieces of video art out, I’m sure you would enjoy… both masterpieces, no doubt!

Thanks for all your help… I’m taking Jeff’s advice at the moment and buying a copy of Trapcode’s ‘Sound Keys’ .. sounds like it could be what I’m looking for..

[Grains]

Hi Steve..

Thanks for that condensed and concise explaination of fields and framerates.. I was actually aware of interlacing and such but I had forgotten the name for the groups of slices on the screen… lost a few braincells a couple of years back! ehem..

But with my original post I should have mentioned some examples of the kind of effect I was trying to achieve with my animation. in particular, there is a DVD by ‘Meam’ (for which I just included a link to the distibutor in my reply to another suggestion to my post by Jonathan Miller.. save you going to check that reply- shop.skam.co.uk/acatalog/Skam_Records_MEAM_6 ,or Alex Rutterford’s video for Autechre’s ‘Gantz graf’)

If you can possibly check either of these pieces of video art out, I’m sure you would enjoy… both masterpieces, no doubt!

Thanks for all your help… I’m taking Jeff’s advice at the moment and buying a copy of Trapcode’s ‘Sound Keys’ .. sounds like it could be what I’m looking for..

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Hello again Jeff…

Ok, I have SoundKeys… looks like it should be the business.
But I’m having a problem.
Ok, I start it up, create a blank solid, preview the audio, watch the spectral graphic, Select a section of frequency to generate keyframes from, then apply it.. But it seems to generate a keyframe on every frame… I was expecting to see about 5 or 6 keyframes max for my selction..
any idea why this is?

Maybe I have to construct a seperate audio track, like a click track, with no sound in between the hits? surely not?

[Grains]

Hello again Jeff…

Ok, I have SoundKeys… looks like it should be the business.
But I’m having a problem.
Ok, I start it up, create a blank solid, preview the audio, watch the spectral graphic, Select a section of frequency to generate keyframes from, then apply it.. But it seems to generate a keyframe on every frame… I was expecting to see about 5 or 6 keyframes max for my selction..
any idea why this is?

Maybe I have to construct a seperate audio track, like a click track, with no sound in between the hits? surely not?

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Hi John…

Thanks for the advice… You are indeed a lucky man to have a sharp ,smart, and beautiful wife to give you a second opinion on things.. My girfriend often does a similar job for me, and she also could often care less about some of the details i’m, obsessing over..

however, it is actually essential to me that I get the kind of tight sync that I’m talking about… To understand the kind of effect I want to achieve, I could only say you would need to see an example or two…
i would highly recommmend a copy of Meam’s ska019 DVD from shop.skam.co.uk/acatalog/Skam_Records_MEAM_6 (for STG

[Grains]

Hi John…

Thanks for the advice… You are indeed a lucky man to have a sharp ,smart, and beautiful wife to give you a second opinion on things.. My girfriend often does a similar job for me, and she also could often care less about some of the details i’m, obsessing over..

however, it is actually essential to me that I get the kind of tight sync that I’m talking about… To understand the kind of effect I want to achieve, I could only say you would need to see an example or two…
i would highly recommmend a copy of Meam’s ska019 DVD from shop.skam.co.uk/acatalog/Skam_Records_MEAM_6 (for STG

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Hi Steve,

Thanks for that…

I have to admit, I don’t know what you mean by “if I wanted to render in fields…”
Can I output another type of video than in fps? If so, can I also work in this format, then perhaps record it with say, DV from another output?

I don’t know if 99.x fps will be a high enough res, but I will certainly try it out and let you know.. I’m also going to look at that plug in Jeff recommended…

Thanks for the super fast response…

God bless