[William Busby]

I can’t offer any help regarding if this can be done with Optical Flow, but I noticed you use Avid. I do this all the time (when needed) with Avid’s Fluid Morph as a transition. I usually leave the defaults, & start with a 3-5 frame transition. At times it can be seamless.

Bill

[William Busby]

Looks as if the 1st one made it through even though the 1st try gave me an error, saying it wasn’t posted.

Bill

[William Busby]

Sorry Mark. I thought “2.5D” had become the standardized coined term for this 🙂

Everyone has seen this technique, I’m sure. Example, the opening of HBO’s now defunct series, Carnivale.

I tried to post a url & I suppose that’s a no-no here. Silly :-\

Of course nowhere near this elaborate. Maybe 5 layers at the most. I’d like to be able to move within certain element layers on XYZ axis, whether they’re elements prepared in Photoshop, or text in Red.

Thanks,
Bill

[William Busby]

Sorry Mark. I thought “2.5D” had become the standardized coined term for this 🙂

Everyone has seen this technique, I’m sure. Example, the opening of HBO’s now defunct series, Carnivale https://tinyurl.com/3bl7v9 or from a site from a friend of mine (they use AE extensively, which I don’t, but should learn) https://www.boulevardvideo.com/dapa/dapa.html

Of course nowhere near this elaborate. Maybe 5 layers at the most. I’d like to be able to move within certain element layers on XYZ axis, whether they’re elements prepared in Photoshop, or text in Red.

Thanks,
Bill

[William Busby]

Sorry, I thought that was specific.

Ok… a simple scenario using Boris Red as a plugin in Avid:

Create a place holder (I got in the habit of just importing the pic, low rez, in Avid & using that) in your Avid timeline using either a clip or whatever & make it the length you need.

Drop the Boris Red “1 input” onto the place holder you just created & get to the Red interface from Avid’s Effect palette.

Once in Red, it defaults to whatever was in your placeholder in Avid. You have to load the hi-rez pic. Where it says V1 in yellow, click that & you’ll see the different kinds of media you can select. Choose “still image”.

Once you have your image loaded, you have at your disposal:
The Controls Window. There’s scale, X Y Z Position, Rotate, Spin, Tumble.

Once you get the hang of it, it’s a “shootin’ fish in a barrel” kind of thing.

Good luck
Bill

[William Busby]

[mr_gfx] ”
i think i have and older boris red cd. what effect lets you rotate, pan, zoom at same time”

There’s no specific effect in Boris Red that does this. You do this directly from the interface & set up the parameters yourself manually.

Bill

[William Busby]

Thanks Peter. I thought about that workflow a long time ago but failed to mention I’m using Avid XDV 3, which is only AVX 1.5 compatible. Thanks for the quick reply though.

I’ve finished all 21 with my workflow mentioned in my previous post… took maybe 20 tedious minutes total, but got it done 🙂

Thanks again,
Bill

[William Busby]

Hey Peter,

Thanks for trying to help, I really appreciate it and I totally understand what you are saying, and I’m aware of where the BCC presets are located. The thing is, when using BCC as a plugin with Avid, and saving ANY (not only BCC) plugin’s you have tweaked to a bin created & given a name in Avid, all of the effects, filters, what have you, are all placed inside a proprietary file with the extension .avb. For example, let’s say the bin is called MyFx… the file within that particular Avid Project is called MyFx.avb. Using one of these effects in a sequence is merely a matter of a drag & drop process on the timeline.

None of these custom settings were originally saved WITHIN BCC’s own save function (.bcp), therefore simply seeking them out in BCC 3.0’s preset directory at the desktop level & moving them to the 4.1 BCC preset directory isn’t going to work… because they aren’t there. I have to GET them there… one by one so I can then proceed the way you describe. And the only way it looks like I can do this is:

1. In Avid, drag effect icon to timeline
2. in Avid’s Effect Palette, use the plugin’s save to preset feature.
3. repeat for all…
4. Close Avid, then navigate to BCC 3.0 preset directory at the desktop level & move to 4.1

Hope that makes sense, because at this point I just woke up a bit ago & my brain is still like scrambled eggs 8-\

Thanks again,
Bill

[William Busby]

Thanks Peter, but these are within an Avid custom effect bin which is a .avb file. What I think I’ll have to do is save each one within BCC’s own presets, like you said, go through the motions of loading each one, then saving to the Avid custom effect directory so they’re readily available.

Thanks,
Bill

[William Busby]

You can also use the HV-10 or HV-20 as a playback deck. Lame yes, but not only playback, but the image quality of both is excellent & could be used as a POV cam, for example.

Bill