[Scott Mcauliffe]

Thanks for the reply, Harm… I appreciate it.

Scott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
http://www.urchinmultimedia.com

[Scott Mcauliffe]

Craig,

thanks for the info. Once upon a time I was told that PNG was a good lossless codec for keeping a master copy of my video in (before I compressed it)… clearly not the case 🙂 I’ll tryout your suggestions.

Sounds like I should probably stick with Squeeze then… though I’m still trying to figure out what Silverlight requires.

Any thought on Microsoft Expression Encoder? I had never heard of it until I saw Ben Waggoner’s post about it.

Thanks again, Craig.

Cheers,

sm

Scott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
http://www.urchinmultimedia.com

[Scott Mcauliffe]

brian,

thanks for the advice… I made my camera a “non-controllable device” and tried useing the “capture now” feature in FCP but I still ran into the same dropped frames issue. I skipped around to a couple of different points on the tape and tried “capture now” from those points, yet I still got the same result. The amount I was able to capture before a frame was dropped ranged between 10 and 45 seconds.

any other thoughts?

Cheers,

– s

Scott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
http://www.urchinmultimedia.com

[Scott Mcauliffe]

Thanks, David. I’m just doing re-edits then sending it back to DVD so it sounds like ripping it to DV is my best bet.

Cheers,

– s

Scott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
http://www.urchinmultimedia.com
http://www.pbase.com/smcaulif

[Scott Mcauliffe]

Here is the quick and dirty version: https://www.urchinmultimedia.com/cell2

I think with a little smoothing out it’ll work very well.

I’d send the .aep but I’m using AE7 for this one.

Thanks again.

Cheers,

– s

Scott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
http://www.urchinmultimedia.com
http://www.pbase.com/smcaulif

[Scott Mcauliffe]

Here is the quick and dirty version: https://www.urchinmultimedia.com/cell2

I think with a little smoothing out it’ll work very well.

I’d send the .aep but I’m using AE7 for this one.

Thanks again.

Cheers,

– s

Scott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
http://www.urchinmultimedia.com
http://www.pbase.com/smcaulif

[Scott Mcauliffe]

Thanks… this will challenge my pen tool skills 🙂

Scott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
http://www.urchinmultimedia.com
http://www.pbase.com/smcaulif

[Scott Mcauliffe]

Thanks… this will challenge my pen tool skills 🙂

Scott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
http://www.urchinmultimedia.com
http://www.pbase.com/smcaulif

[Scott Mcauliffe]

yikesmikes,

That Dan Ebberts expression with CC Bender gives the exact look that I’m trying to get (the decay variable is a great option in that expression)… plus the turbulent displacement smooths out that transition into the cc Bender. I love it… thanks for the suggestions. Now it’s a matter of me trying to get my mask layers in order and “matching the cell wall” as per your last post. Thanks for all of the help… it’s a pretty subtle animation that really sells that cell motion.

Cheers,

– s

Scott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
http://www.urchinmultimedia.com
http://www.pbase.com/smcaulif

[Scott Mcauliffe]

yikesmikes,

That Dan Ebberts expression with CC Bender gives the exact look that I’m trying to get (the decay variable is a great option in that expression)… plus the turbulent displacement smooths out that transition into the cc Bender. I love it… thanks for the suggestions. Now it’s a matter of me trying to get my mask layers in order and “matching the cell wall” as per your last post. Thanks for all of the help… it’s a pretty subtle animation that really sells that cell motion.

Cheers,

– s

Scott McAuliffe
Urchin Multimedia Design
http://www.urchinmultimedia.com
http://www.pbase.com/smcaulif