[Jay Wolf]

Matte- I loved your answer! It was extremely useful and told me exactly what I needed to create that dreamlike effect!! And you even included pictures.
I feel extremely ungrateful and apologize.

I merely wanted to tell -Tim, I guess- that maybe someone had another suggestion that could be purely interpreted as ‘the future’ and not as ‘dreamlike’ as well. Dreamlike was all the filtering technique I could think of to depict ‘the future’…

Jeez, what a story… and so many tears shed in this thread…

So once again, thank you, Matte, and may you live long, prosperous and generous as you are.

Wolf

G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2

[Jay Wolf]

Whoever moved the post: then move the answer as well!! Now no one can learn from it.

Also interesting that the use of filters to create certain effects is considered ‘basic’. I wasn’t just looking for the dreamlike effect- perhaps someone had a better, more ‘telling’ combination of filters…

G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2

[Jay Wolf]

Thanks for all your responses!

Wolf

G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2

[Jay Wolf]

Thanks, Chris. That TMTS-tip was great: didn’t know about those freebies. I’ll write Mattias about a simple keyframing tool/plugin for letters/numbers- it seems like something for him to pick up.
Meanwhile I’ve made something that is very inefficient, but it looks nice. A combination of a speeding clock in Motion, a fancy looking background template and growing, rotating numbers that change value ‘in the spin’ and come to a halt at a certain year. If that makes any sense…

G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2

[Jay Wolf]

Thanks, Rafalos. I had tried the Flip Count -also LiveType Pro series- but I can’t get the digits to count up or down in normal numerical order.

G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2

[Jay Wolf]

Thanks, Noah.

G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2

[Jay Wolf]

Thanks for the tips, guys!

[Jay Wolf]

Carlene, you’d be best off exporting a QT movie with current settings and then changing the width and height for that QT-file to a 16×9 aspect ratio. For instance 704×400, as you said.

Way to do this: open the QT Movie – go to Window – Show Movie Properties – click on where it says Video Track- click on Visual Settings and there you can enter the settings for the size in pixels.
For Flash I use Episode Pro.

Good luck,

Wolf

[Jay Wolf]

Tom, I’m using Episode Pro. I’ll use wmv9 high quality and set it to 704×400 as suggested. Report back later because it’s time to hit the sack.

The AVI was a request from a client. Because he saw interlacing in another wmv I sent him, he asked for AVI. Probably thought it was more reliable… I’l talk him out of it.

Episode Pro by default deinterlaces the video when transcoding to .wmv so I guess it’s ‘just’ compression artifacts…

Thanks for helping out so far.

[Jay Wolf]

That’s what kept me confused, Russ- there is no apparent logic to the way QT deals with and displays 16×9, anamorphic or not.

Jerry Hoffman says it can’t deal with anamorphic 16×9, you say it can, be it now and then…

I was looking for logic there, which was a silly thing to do, I guess. This is a clear matter of ‘what you see is not what you get’.

Most important is that I export using Current Settings and then when I convert/compress to .wmv for instance, I tell the Compression software to use a 16×9 image proportion setting so it will be displayed correctly, right?

One more question: I either set my own 16×9 settings or check ‘constrain proportions’ but never both, right?