Just a heads up for people as we move forward towards the SA V5.5 release. Apple no longer supports some of the old quicktime movie codec formats. And they love their long time customers so much that they provide no way to import the old formats ei
Read more…I'm curious what people are using on macs with Catalina or Big Sur to do movie codec format conversion. So what are you using?
Apple's ill-named QuicktimePlayer (ill-named because it does not use the Quicktime api) gives you some brain dead (in my o
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I am making movie brushes, on my PC version of Studio Artist 4, and it seems like the biggest size I can make a movie to use as a movie brush is 300 x 300 px. If I make a movie bigger, and/or not square, it does n
Hi John and Everyone,
I'm attaching the memories file I worked from and the the last movie test, ignore the lack of aesthetics please.
I waited until after 8 or 9 tries before writing; I'm at a loss to explain the black frames - what I've seen in t
Read more…Hello. I've been perusing for best practice tips in Sketch effects with movies. I have just began to feel my way around Studio Art and an under a deadline to finish a film before the festival.
I'm taking video of animals and using sketch looks (
Read more…I'm in an organizing mood right now and am thinking of spending my weekend doing some serious house cleaning for my Studio Artist folder. In particular I want to take a long look at how I organize my image brush and movie brush sources and determine
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I have created a custom PASeq using a couple of action steps from the Vectorizer and Paint Synthesizer Classic. The rest of the steps are taken mostly from factory PASeq for movies however I have been having an issue with one of those steps.
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Thanks very much for the links to several great previous posts in a separate discussion about procedural and generative capabilities of Studio Artist. One link you posted was to this article about how you went about creating paint presets with
Read more…Being new to Studio Artist, I think I've seen reference to this in the documentation but now I'm unable to locate what I'm looking for. I can think of a couple of approaches to this. I could within SA or another program create a movie out of the stil
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I'm using attached paint preset for drawing mosaic and not always satisfied how SA selects images to represent an area of the source image.
I'm using 1D Frame mod RGB mapping in Brush Source panel as the only option that roughly does what
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I'm a new SA user, so my question may have been asked by others many times before. I can't find the answer in the ongoing discussions though.
So here it is:
I'm trying to add a style to an imported QT movie of 125 frames,
but after "open source"
Read more…I decided to post my question here because some of you may better understand what I am asking about. I have done some searching for photomosaic software but what I found did not allow for much interactivity during creation. I've not made one, ever, b
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Hey all.
Question about how the src skip movie preference works. Have a 1800+ frame clip that I'm working on. I set the src skip preference to skip every 2 frames and I am using the source movie timing.
When watching on PASeq playback, I don't
Read more…Building a paint animation strategy and then recording a paint action sequence (PASeq) to implement your paint animation strategy is the key to building successful movie process or auto-rotoscope effects in Studio Artist.
There are many factory PAS
Read more…So I've a photo mosaic movie brush that I've created and I'm not getting the result I want. I have an image with alpha that I'm using as a source image (well, its a movie actually but it has alpha.)
This is what the image looks like:
Anyways, I
Read more…I'm full of fun questions today! Here's my latest: how outside of rendering out an MSG movie and setting it as a movie brush background texture, is there any way to use an MSG in the background texture editor? I've been mucking around with the Lumi
Read more…I've been trying out some brushes with the Region Fill As Brush and movie brushes and there's some behavior that I don't understand occuring. I have my brush fill set up set to brush image and I noticed that the individual regions fill don't seem to
Read more…Been having fun doing photo mosaics with SA4 but I'm wondering if there is a way to set it up using videos instead? I've figured out a way to build a brush using a slightly labor intensive method (creating a video wall using FCP/AE, rendering that m
Read more…I seem to have a recurring problem with changing out background image textures and background movie brushes as well as getting source movies to be recognized as the brush type in the brush source dialogue box I can see the dimensions change but the m
Read more…"Nü Müzak" video made with MSGs. The muzak (haha) was made with Bespoke Synth (cool free modular music program). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRSzm1-QBMI&t=305s&ab_channel=Thorrific
Read more…I am looking for an Art Deco type effect, does anyone have that type of effect...?
Read more…Since the Forum is going away in June, has anyone started to make a copy of all the stuff in the Tutorials forum?I've made copies of some of the tutorial material on the main site, but haven't looked at the Tutorial Forum yet.I'm going to continue copying as much as I can for my own personal use anyway, but if anyone else is doing it, or has already started doing it, please let me know.Maybe we can co-ordinate our efforts. ps can't ..... believe John, would let this happen without so much as a…
Read more…I was crawling the streets of Matera, Italy today and may have discovered where SA is hiding! (see attached photo). Not meaning to make light of this great, sad mystery. But I just couldn't resist as I try to make sense of what's happening. Losing my connection to SA, Synthetik and John has been a great sadness... and if real, ends a monumental era in my creative life. love,~Victor
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