Steve Roberts
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… and don’t forget the guys who’ve helped out, but aren’t currently forum leaders: Mylenium, Dave LaRonde, Michael Szalapski, yikesmikes, Rick Gerard, and anyone I’ve forgotten. Not to mention the great tutorial writers on the COW.
And to thank ex-leaders Chris and Trish Meyer, buy their books. 🙂
Steve
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There are a few problems with QT 7. Going back to QT 6.5 will solve them, as far as I’ve read.
I’m still on 6.5.
Steve
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Search the COW (include the archives) on “photo-mosaic” or “photo” and “mosaic”.
That should get you started.
Steve
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[Erik Lindahl] “Is this crazy or am I crazy? Shouldn’t The application be “smart enough” to figure this out?”
You’re not crazy. This is normal. I don’t think it’s right, but what the hey — it’s normal. 🙂
Steve
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That’s good news, Scott.
Steve
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Have you tried changing your view to each camera? Look at the bottom of the comp window to select a camera.
Read up on it in the manual, and check the COW tutorials, too. 🙂
Steve
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Using Particular, I’d try making dots fly straight across the screen, then apply one of the distort filters such as optics compensation to “fisheye” the dots. Remember, they don’t fly randomly across the room — they go straight across, but the dots closer to the poles travel a shorter distance. Something like that. 🙂
Just about any particle emitter should do it.
Steve
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You could try using the align & distribute palette. Make a comp that is the width of 1000 images + 999 X 3 pixels wide, then place one image at the start, one at the end, select them all, then hit the button that distributes the images by left edge. That should work.
If you’re keen on expressions, try using this layer index-based expression for each layer’s position:
[width/2*(2*index-1) + (index-1)*3, position[1]]
or:
xPos=width/2*(2*index-1);
AddGap=(index-1)*3;
[xPos + AddGap, position[1]]Apply it to the first layer, select the property (position), then edit>copy expression only. Then select the other layers and select edit>paste.
For flexibility, I might tie the 3 value to a slider.
Dan will probably come up with something cleaner. 🙂Steve
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You could try using the align & distribute palette. Make a comp that is the width of 1000 images + 999 X 3 pixels wide, then place one image at the start, one at the end, select them all, then hit the button that distributes the images by left edge. That should work.
If you’re keen on expressions, try using this layer index-based expression for each layer’s position:
[width/2*(2*index-1) + (index-1)*3, position[1]]
or:
xPos=width/2*(2*index-1);
AddGap=(index-1)*3;
[xPos + AddGap, position[1]]Apply it to the first layer, select the property (position), then edit>copy expression only. Then select the other layers and select edit>paste.
For flexibility, I might tie the 3 value to a slider.
Dan will probably come up with something cleaner. 🙂Steve
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Currently, AE does not use OpenGL very well, so a new graphics card will not help.
You might want to consider Apple’s Motion app, but for that you need the best graphics and CPU hardware. Check the Apple site and COW forum for details.
Steve