Michael Munkittrick
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More than likely, that is the term for video that has been specifically compressed to an mp4 format for playback on an iPod. Aside from that, I’ve no idea what would make a video non-pod friendly.
Michael Munkittrick
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VooDoo, my man. VooDoo.
Seriously, I think that this subject has come up before here so doing an archive search might be helpful. Also, there is an article in Post Magazine about the project that talks about it a bit in depth.
Michael Munkittrick
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To the best of my recollection, After Effects does not fully support MP3 files, and while AE can utilize them internally for reference, the resulting sound is riddled with errors.
For the best result, use an audio tool like Sound Forge or the QuickTime Pro player to export your MP3 as a wav file and then use wav for the most reliable solution.
Michael Munkittrick
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I’ll be damned. I have no idea why, but after doing a complete OS install and spending an afternoon of reinstalling my useful software, I can no longer get PolyTrans to do an accurate translation from MAX files. I’m baffled, but not like the guy at PolyTrans who sent me a MAX file to prove my point. I don’t know what I screwed up, but I wish I could go back a day or so and make a duplicate of that entire hard drive.
So, in the end, you were right with the consideration that I had some sort of wierd quirk making what was supposed to be impossible actually work. Sorry for the headache.
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Neither C4D nor Lightwave is widely renowned as exceptional modeling tools, but both are comparable to just about any other
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I made some very similar to this myself without any trouble and you can do it too.
1. Get either a fish tank or Lexan-like clear case and fill it with cool, distilled water leaving a few inches of empty space at the top to compensate for the movement and overflow.
2. Mix either red, blue, green or any combination of them to create a visibly darker color in an 8 to 10 ounce cup with warm water. The mixture should be almost 10-15% dye
3. You can use either a flat (non-gloss) piece of poster board or a piece of thick cloth on the back side of the tank. Fasten it to the tank and make sure that it is secure. Let the tank completely settle so that there is NO surface activity in the water.
4. Administering the dye to the water can be done in a lot of different ways, but my favorite is the “spoon” method. Take your spoon and attach it with a C-clamp to a stand or any relatively stationary item so that the concave side of the spoon is facing upward and rests at about a 45 degree angle. If the angle is not flexible, it is better to have the tip closer than farther as this will affect how the water breeches the surface. VERY carefully hold your cup-o-dye about 2 to 5 inches from the spoon and tip it quickly momentarily so that the dye flows into the water. This is most beautiful if you do it quickly and with as much dye as you can get at one time. Your total pour should be no more than 1 second each time, but experimentation could prove me wrong. A longer pour will give it more force and make a more slender and slower spread, but it often causes the dye to collide with the floor
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GREAT IDEAS! I had considered working with Z depth information, but simply didn’t understand the process well enough to put it into action on this project. The edge bevel however sounds like a fantastic idea. So long as I keep the bevel smooth it should add some depth as wel a a bit of reflective quality to the edges of the keyed out ghost.
Thanks a LOT!!! You are a saint.
Michael Munkittrick
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QuickTime on the Mac platform is an integral part of the OS and therefore is not an external process that necessitates a non-native driver to compress the video. Likewise, Window users utilize the Windows Media as the foundation for integration and interface with the OS.
If you were to take two identical files from the same source and use the exact same QuickTime compression scheme on a PC and a Mac, and then play them back side by side on either the result would be the same as you
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Hi Geoff, I’m available via my email address munkittrick[at]hotmail[dot]com. I’ll do my best to help out. Iam pretty familiar with the area and have shot there quite a few times.
Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA -
Over the last few years, I’ve had to work with models created in a lot of different applications, so flexibility is the key if we’re going to make money. Last year I got no less than 20 full-blown .MAX scenes that I had never had any experience with. I’ve no idea if it supposed to work or not, but it does. I hate to say it, but I’ve been sucessfully changing .max files to .3ds files for quite a while now, and with the exception of the missing or shifted texture and shaders, they all seem to be intact.
As a side note, I just saw a guy 30 minutes ago do a demo with a tool named “Modo”, and it was CRAZY! It opened everything from .dfx files to .3ds files to .cob to .lwo objects without a hick-up. In fact, Modo opened a very, very detailed scene with about 60 animated elements in it more quickly than I’ve seen from any other package…ever. I asked for the tech-guys over at Okino Software to get some information about the PolyTrans package so I’ll update you when I get a response.
Michael Munkittrick
Gainesville, Florida USA