[Philipp Hahn]

yes, but it does still come up when searching for this question and i wish i would have gotten better advice then the one stated above, hence the post. that said: there is a kind of uninstall feature hidden within the app itself, somewehre in the menu “actions” (had to reinstall to use just that), that seems to kinda work. seriously, what sort of design decision is that?!? i’d call this almost malicious.

[Philipp Hahn]

um. i just installed this to demo a plugin and really regret it. premiere takes ages to load (or crashes on loading) and there is no uninstaller – just trashing the application certainly does not work. not sure wether this is intentional or just very bad design, but either way DO NOT INSTALL this. i’ll spend some time now sifting through the innards of my system trying to get rid of this crap…

[Philipp Hahn]

for reference: still not completely done with this but close – i now do it through command line scripts with a combination of imagemagick, gnu parallel and ffmpeg… i went for imagemagick simply because it appeared the most flexible.

[Philipp Hahn]

sorry, forgot something, also interesting: https://github.com/zo7/median-video

[Philipp Hahn]

hello again,
sorry for the delay, for future reference:
roei’s tutorial video uses photoshop to create a median clean plate, which does work nicely for individual clips/shots but unfortunately i’m dealing with a lot of frames and photoshop crashes on these quantities.
the solution i’m currently exploring and which seems most promising is not using after effects or photoshop at all but to do it from the command line using G’MIC, details are explained here: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/a-guide-about-computing-the-temporal-average-median-of-video-frames-with-gmic/1566

again, thanks for all the help and have a wonderful day!
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[Philipp Hahn]

thanks for your help but, um, which of these tutorials should i be looking at? there are four 10+ minute tutorials behind this link and at least on first sight, none seems to say anything about temporal median… or did i miss something?
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[Philipp Hahn]

hi roei,
thank you much for your input!
so ok, it really seems i should just stay away from variable stroke width… as said, i tried to solve this with masking/write on but there are a lot of other problems surfacing with this approach so i guess i’m better of just to stay with fixed stroke widths…
again, thanks for your help!
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[Philipp Hahn]

hey you two,
thank both of you very much for your help!

the screengrabbing approach is most interesting but i’m not sure it solves my problem (i only need the mouse or mouse path…).

regarding motion sketch: this seems almost exactly like what i’m looking for! only question: i did not find a way to do this while the rest of the animation is playing in the background (which i would need to see to know where i have to move). is there any solution for this?

again, thanks so much for your help!
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[Philipp Hahn]

hi ben, thanks again, good idea.
after some more research i think i will go with an industrial camera though…
https://www.theimagingsource.com/de_DE/products/cameras/gige-cmos-ccd-color/dfk23gp031/
this one seems to come with directshow drivers for windows, that should (hopefully) work with my setup.
anyway: thanks for your help!!!
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[Philipp Hahn]

hi ben,
thank you for your input!
sound quality is not an issue, i do not need any sound at all.
i just looked up the specs which look good but if i understand correctly, the nex 5 n can’t provide a clean hdmi output without all sorts of overlays: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3100865#forum-post-39902326
or can you positively confirm that it can?
apart, these lenses would actually be quite expensive: if i did the math correctly i would need about 9mm (non-fisheye) for 80-90° horizontal fov and the lenses i found matching this are all at least another 500 €…

any other ideas?
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