Hand Painting movie frames: "Paper Cup To Heaven"

[B. Carroll]

it's a breeze to hand paint in SA. I just had to find the transport buttons for the movie layer (see Windows/check Layer visibility.)

 

files are gigantic. 6 secs = 568MB  compressed with h264 = 147MB

 

please visit my site for a peek of a mini test with hand painting over PASeq.

 

http://www.insomn1ac.com/TestsSneakPeeks.html

 

thanks, John.

 

- BC

[Jean Detheux]

Takes forever to load here, did you make it a "Fast Start" QT movie?

It should be a choice when encoding to h.264, and if not, all you have to do is "Save As" after encoding, the new "saved as" version will be a "Fast Start" movie.

And it shows only a white canvas when playing in the browser (Firefox on Mac), but shows the images correctly if I download the file to disk ("Save as QT movie").

Are you sure you want to show an HD version only?
You could downsize it quite a bit, at least for the web, we'd be able to see it easily, and you would save both on file size (on your drive), and on download time for your visitors.

[Victor Ingrassia]

Hi Jean,

This might help (I looked for the file in the page code):

http://www.insomn1ac.com/media/PCTH_GoodWaveMini_800x480.mov

[Jean Detheux]

Hi Victor,
This time it played in the browser, and smaller too, but there was no image showing until the file was fully in cache, which points to the movie not being a "Fast Start" movie.

[Victor Ingrassia]

yes... and I also noticed in the directory window for the movies that most of the movies there are way larger:

http://www.insomn1ac.com/media/

Sorry BC for my "hacking"... I too just wanted to investigate the slow loading issue.
~v

[B. Carroll]

whoa! I turn my back and....LOL.

I don't work with QT often. PC person here. it must come with QTPro...? I just have a basic player and Adobe Premiere to create .mov files.

big files look so good, take so long....

I uploaded what I consider to be a tiny file - which is what's up there as of last night. about 30 sec lag when loading for me. terrible quality. I have dozens of stories in winmedia on another web site with no lag problems.

big files were tests. um....the whole page is a test....well, this entire SA project is a test...file size is a big issue. (see previous discussion with JohnD.) will do some sequences non-HD and am going to play around with using B&W rather than millions of colors for the initial process. but, it has to be Zone quality. (any photographers here?)

- BC

[B. Carroll]

oops....the tiny file up now doesn't have a lag for me. the 30sec load must have been the one before.

hacking...ok...posting the hack...makes me feel like someone's looking up my skirt....*puts on jeans*

[Jean Detheux]

A few years ago, I was teaching "digital art" (grades 7 and 8, amazing kids, totally at ease in the medium, right off the bat, samples of their work here) and we worked on PC.
Very small means at first, we were lucky QuickTime Pro was available, amazing what that $30 or so application makes available.
I would not leave home without it...