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Errors with trying to process a movie

Posted by Chuck Drew on October 18, 2007 at 7:18am
Hello all, I have a movie file processed with a PAS and then I reprocess the same with with the MorphTween All Frames command but most of the time it only completes half of the file and stops. Any ideas? I'm trying to create a "living painting" and wanted to morph to smooth things out as otherwise it looks like a very fast stop frame animation.

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  • Synthetik October 18, 2007 at 7:38am
    Did you press a key accidentally to stop it from processing? How many frames is the movie you are trying to process?

    You could try splitting the movie into 2 using cut and paste in Quicktime player Pro and then process those separately.
    • Chuck Drew > Synthetik October 18, 2007 at 7:53am
      No, no pressed keys. The original file is 200 frames. So is the file after the PAS. I set the MorphTween All Frames to insert 1 frame. As a side note as I have been sitting here working with the Region Draw Multipen mode when I lasso a large area only half of the area processes. It just stops. I don't know if it related.
      • Synthetik > Chuck Drew October 18, 2007 at 5:24pm
        The Region Draw issue probably means you just need to bump up the Path Buffer Max setting in the main studio artist preferences dialog (file:preferences:main). I don't think this has anything to do with the morphtween issue. IF you find out differently let us know.

        i'll try some morphtween tests tomorrow and see what we find here.
  • Chuck Drew October 19, 2007 at 11:08am
    Increasing the buffer size has no effect. It stops only after a few seconds on a large canvas (1920x1080) and it takes on an eccliptical shap which I haven't figured out how to just fill the whole canvas automatically using region draw (still in the learning phase).
    • Synthetik > Chuck Drew October 19, 2007 at 11:36am
      The buffer size increase does not take effect until the next time you start up studio artist. I just ran a test and i'm convinced the buffer size is what you were running into. I'm able to duplicate your problem with the default small buffer size, and it goes away after i increase the buffer size in the preferences, quit, and then restart studio artist.
      • Chuck Drew > Synthetik October 19, 2007 at 11:50am
        That did the trick, thanks. I'll have to see it that did something to the movie proccessing thiing also. One other question. With Mode:Region Draw Multipen selected do you know how I can change the selection from the ecliptical shape to something like a rectangle so I can select the entire canvas?
        • Synthetik > Chuck Drew October 19, 2007 at 12:57pm
          In the Pen Mode control panel in the paint synthesizer you can choose the Fill Type for the Region Draw Mode. There are a wide variety of patterns and shapes you can draw in Region Draw pen mode other than the default setting.

          I don't think the path buffer size is going to have anything to do with your movie issue. Let me know if that's not the case.
          • Chuck Drew > Synthetik October 22, 2007 at 1:25pm
            I thought I better drop a line so you wouldn't think that I have forgotten about this but the truth is I have been waiting on my computer to finish processing a test movie that was shot in HD at 1920x1080. On a mac G4 450mhz it will be tommorrow afternoon before it's finished with the 156 frames that it started processing Friday night. After that I will get it to do the MorphTween and see what happens.
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