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Scanner Darkly effect test

So after so trial an error, I kind of found the effect required for acieving the scanner darkly effect.

I used a default 'Image Operation" operation mode.The category was simplify, color simplify 4.

The output was kind of what I wanted but I had to man

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1 Reply · Reply by Thor Johnson Mar 2

new features

I know this is huge ask, but it would be super helpful to be able to create  MSGs and PASEQs, programatically. This would vastly increase the animation potential of SA.

We can create individual MSG, right now, but it is a manual and labor intensive op

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1 Reply · Reply by Synthetik Oct 23, 2023

Love to the island of Maui

Hi, everyone, John and Candice especially.

I've been watching the news and the fire on Maui, and it is just devastating. It looks like Haiku was spared, but everyone on the island will bear the grief and loss for a long time. 

Your software and generos

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2 Replies · Reply by Sam Aug 24, 2023

Whats going on with this site?

Has anyone else gotten a warning about this site disappearing? An email form just popped up, asking me to contract the owner and leave a message to let them know that they may loose their "network"Did Synthetik forget to pay it's bills, or is something else going on?I think 8 months is more than enough vacation time. Is anyone at Synthetik doing any development work at all? 

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3 Replies · Reply by Tony Bouttell Mar 12

Having difficulty exporting canvas as image

I'd like to export a canvas as a .tiff/.tif image file to a folder I made on my desktop.I select that from a dropdown menu, I can name the exported file, change the extension, etc, and I press save but nothing happens.It's always worked until now. It seems like a simple task. Any ideas?I'm on Mac OSX 12.6, if that matters, and my system hasn't changed since the last time I was able to export successfully.Thanks  

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2 Replies · Reply by Tony Bouttell Mar 5

To Datamosh and beyond?

I expect most of you know what i'm refering to wit this effect. It's a glitching with codecs like h264 where the the last frame of a previous clip gets frozen and used as a colur pallete for the next. It's been exploited numerous times in edgy rap videos etc.StudioArtist seems ideal for making similar effects, given it's high levels of pixel manipulation controls.Expt 1What i'm trying out for a start is using two layers - Layer 1 (topmost) has a still image. Layer 2 has a video.On Canvas/Layer…

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10 Replies · Reply by Thor Johnson Mar 8