[Stephen L. noe]

I had heard Commotion was really great at rotoscope but haven’t tried it. It’s so rare to use it (for me anyway).

[Stephen L. noe]

There is no easy way to do rotoscoping. For me the easiest is what you’ve described, exporting to Photoshop or Corel and then doing the ‘work’ of cutting the mask on each frame. Good luck..

[Stephen L. noe]

I don’t think you’re getting to many takers on this because I’m not aware that you can import a TGA sequence into Red. TGA sequences are not packaged as MOV files as you know and are individual frames. I don’t see a way on my system, and I did look.

does someone else have a solution?

[Stephen L. noe]

Another thought I had today about this was to take a camera outside and actually shoot the sky using the camera move you want and then importing the AVI for use as the background. It would save one hell of alot of compositing if you can get the camera move you want.

[Stephen L. noe]

The way I achieve the effect is by placing a 3d plane outside of the container as the bottom object in the timeline. You can either pan and scan an actual photo of a sky shot or use the cloud generator. It’s nicer to use the P&S technique if you have an actual picture of the sky around the stadium (or anywhere). You can take 360 degrees of sky and meld them together in Photoshop (or similar product) into a very wide P&S. If you can’t get literally a 360 then a smaller amount would do and you can melt them together into a super wide angle sky shot. Otherwise the cloud generator will do. Once you’ve made the 3d plane track you’ll have control of it’s camera separately because it’s outside the container. Then you can adjust xyz as needed. I first saw this trick done in AE on the Van Helsing movie where they pan the camera around things and meanwhile in the background the mob of people are seen. This is why I say it’s easy to do in AE because you can pull back from the scene and place photo’s or video clips in 3d space relative to the camera.

take care.

[Stephen L. noe]

It’s been 4 years since I was on Avid so I’m sure alot of things have changed. As far as Boris is concerned HT can be either on or Off. You can set the ‘affinity’ in your task manager for the program to use all processors or only physical processors.

[Stephen L. noe]

The problem I see with this is how do you know what it looks like in 3D space. In AE you can literally pull away from the scene to see what the whole stage looks like. Not so in Red. You could put a photograph of the sky as your last layer on a 3d plane and then put it in motion as the last item to animate and tweek it. Do you have a red file you’ve already started?

[Stephen L. noe]

Hi,

I have it turned on. I edit at an Edition 6.1 station though. I can not say for Avid but I’d hazard a guess that it could not hurt on your system to just leave it on.

[Stephen L. noe]

Spline primitive, second spline primitive object is called wedge. Take a look in your Boris manual on page 575. You’ll see that the wedge/circle spline primitive is the circle and the circle spline primitive is really an oval or elipse.

Use the wedge spline primitive for perfect circles.

take care….

[Stephen L. noe]

You need to use the spline primitive. When you select spline primitive, choose the second one down. It’s the circle (which is dead center). Once you’ve selected it, you can do whatever you want with it.

take care.