Simon Stutts
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I’m going to follow up Andy and Walter and recommend Pro Video Player. We recently used it on a nationwide tour to allow us to project digital set backdrops onto three screens situated directly behind the stage. Worked great. Using now to control 4 screens in sync. Runs well off of cheap, reliable mac minis. You may have a very slight pause when switching between the different sync’d clips, but other than that, you cant beat it for the price, IMO.
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I’ve not used it – so maybe someone else here can chime in, but I think Knoll Light Factory may do what you are looking for.
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/knoll-light-factory-pro/
I almost purchased it recently – but the project’s budget was very tight and we opted to do without it. Give it a look, though. You can get the demo on RGS’s website and give it a spin.
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[Paul Conigliaro] “[Note: Using Particular, 3-D Stroke, and now Form do not instantly make your designs “teh awesome.”]”
Excessive use of Shine and Starglow still do, though, right? 😉
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The amount of raw data they had to manage for the Toshiba piece hurts my head.
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Here’s a write-up on the Toshiba piece.
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…I love this forum. 🙂
Joe: It sounds like you have little to no experience in this sort of thing. Here’s one of the first and most important things to learn: when you decide to “do something in post” – you need to have that planned out in advance and understand how to do it – before you commit to it. Otherwise you end up where you are right now.
A quick google search (literally maybe 5-7 minutes of research) turned up the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NnzBJX1pTE&feature=relatedand
https://www.nyc-visual.com/3D_Book_M.html
For the above, the person who made it included a project file you can use to base yours around. This should work for you.A piece of advice: Don’t ever expect anyone to hand you anything in this field. Video production & creative types generally love to teach people things – but they have to know that the person they are teaching is a hard worker and it is worth the time to teach them. Prove yourself by your work ethic, your initiative, and your willingness to do whatever needs to be done, and you’ll find lots of open doors for learning.
If you pose a learning/need help question in a way that says that you expect people to drop everything and help you without you doing the hard work necessary to get it done (i.e. research, planning, learning software, etc.) – be prepared for some truly epic sarcasm. Understand that the majority of those that frequent the COW forums are working professionals, who share their wisdom with others out of the goodness of their hearts. Ask in a way that shows your willingness to do hard work, and 95% of the time people here will help you understand whatever it is you are having a hard time with.
Good luck and best wishes with your project.
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Space-bar initiated playback isn’t necessarily accurate. You’re not necessarily getting a real framerate (unless your composition is rendering in real time). It’s showing you frames as they render. In more complicated compositions, where each frame takes a second or two to render, spacebar playback isnt really effective for a real preview of the animation (especially with audio – it would have to slow the audio to match the framerate that you get as it renders). So RAM preview is the way to go. I’ve never felt like it was a hinderance, personally. If your RAM previews are taking a long time, try setting your composition view to 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4 quality. Should render faster.
If you’re having trouble syncing animation to audio – try pressing “.” on your numeric pad. This will give you an audio preview. Do an audio preview with that layer selected, and tap the “*” key on the numeric pad on the beats or moments you want things to occur at. This leaves markers on the layer that you can then time your animations to.
Alternatively – you could animate and then sync audio to your animation in an NLE.
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It’s a bit of a stretch…and it might not work…
But you might be able to pull this off by using Motion Sketch to capture your mouse/wacom pen movements to a null object – if you can get them close enough to the movement of the drumsticks, you might be able to pull it off. Wouldn’t be exact, but you might be able to get a similar effect to what you are going for, with a more natural motion.
That said, I dont use Motion Sketch all that often, so I could be wrong.