Ron Lindeboom
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If it were my gig I would do as you suggest and get a few very tight-in shots from a high school football game. So tight in that it didn’t show faces, etc., and then I’d stylize the footage in After Effects and Illustrator using the trace edges livetrace function. I’d pull it down to B&W and then throw posterize time on it in AE to give it a strong cell animation feel — so it doesn’t have that gosh awful Charles Schwab commercial bogus animation 30fps look that gives me the creeps.
If you want to add color to the uniforms, simply use the new Photoshop Extended and use curves (and split handles using the option key” to drop out all the colors you don’t want and leave the ones you do — leave just one or two for effect) to colorize the frames you want.
You could also smear and trail the movement so that it plays up the action.
Add powerful underlay audio that punctuates the slamming and jamming of football.
No one will know where you got the footage or didn’t.
That’s what I would do. And if I wasn’t working on a magazine right now, I’d do you a tutorial so that you could see the steps in what I just described. (Hopefully, you are good enough with the tools I pointed to, to know what I am talking about.)
If you are good in the Adobe Suite, it will take you a day or two to do it all. Far less time than dealing with lawyers and clearances.
:o)
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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In the sticky posts area of the AE forum (located just below the host pictures), you will find a link to the MacIntel instructions for using AE7 with the new MacBooks.
We are still a couple months or so away from the native version.
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Hello Arson X,
Would you like to drop the platform fanboy ravings??? Each platform has its advantages and its drawbacks. The Windows world isn’t giving away the Cineform codec, last I looked.
We try to keep this kind of inaccurate and sophomoric stuff off our boards.
Thanks,
Ron Lindeboom
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Lastly, I learned WAY MORE from my teachers who challenged me and my way of thinking than I ever did from the ones who told me how smart I was and reiterated what I already knew. Those who prod and examine and even bitch and moan about the way things are, often (not always) have the most valid points — not to mention, the most that you can learn and benefit from.
I have heard people over the years say that here at the COW, they have learned about issues before they even ran into them.
Consider Grinner your scout…
Best always,
Ron Lindeboom
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Man, I *love* Grinner and from the folks I know at Avid, I think they do too.
I spent the better part of a day at the AVID displays, meetings, etc., and even spent time with Avid’s Michael Phillips and many others. While I was quite positive about some aspects of Avid, I was quite negative about others. They didn’t think I was attacking them and I wasn’t.
I don’t believe Grinner is doing any worse than any other user who has as many years behind an Avid as he has. Grinner is no newbie and he has worked on shows as noted as the Super Bowl, etc.
He has earned his stripes and his right to his opinion.
If you want gushingly passionate religion as part of your NLE, I might suggest one not far from here…
:o)
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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There is one Bob, it is called Sony CineAlta. We will likely change the name in the future.
Thanks,
Ron Lindeboom
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Hello Peter,
I have, for years, wanted to call it NewTek VT but was asked in the beginning to list it as VT first as they felt that VideoToaster was bigger in people’s minds than NewTek itself.
It has always looked odd to me and very unprofessional but we didn’t come up with that naming scheme. We were asked to do it that way.
It has always seemed very bizarre to me and irritated me enough that one time, long ago, I did change it and was asked to change it back.
It’s one of those damned-if-we-do-and-damned-if-we-don’t thingies.
Oh well,
Ron Lindeboom
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Hi Filip,
Thanks for the feedback. We are aware of the issue. I told Eric to take the new interface live knowing that the “View Entire Thread At Once” mechanism was broken. We will have it fixed this week but I figured that functionally the view at once function worked, even if it looked terrible.
I was just THAT sick of the old interface. ;o)
Ron
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Hi Marc,
Since you are not getting responses on this post, you may wish to try posting this question in the Panasonic P2 forum here at the COW. There are many users there and likely some will be Vegas users.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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This question has been asked and answered many times. It is linked in the “common questions” sticky post at the top of the page and there are many additional answers to be found using the search engine.
Regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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