How do you create movies from multiple layers with compositing? Do you need to run a PAS separately on each source movies and then combine them or can this be done in one step? thanks
Read more…Hi John and everybody else. I want to process a movie file with a PASeq meanswhile at the same time I like to upconvert from SD to HD or any other higher resolution. Should I just drop the movie file into SA and then change and adjust the canvas int
Read more…What happened to the slide show? 10 images are not enough. If it's going to remain this way, does anyone have any ideas about other possibilities. Thanks, Paul
Read more…Given three layers stacked A, B, C, is it possible to use the luminance of layer B to control the compositing of layers A and C? For examples, areas of greatest luminance allow layer A to come through, while areas of low luminance show layer C (with
Read more…How do I create a 2-word tag? For instance, if I wanted the tag to be "studio artist" instead of "studio, "artist". I've tried using a "+" between the words. But that doesn't seem to work.
Read more…OK, I love this artwork... but some of it I am frankly surprised by. I don't see how it was made. Usually I can look at a Studio Artist artwork and see something in it which I can trace to a tool. Does the artist talk about specific methods in SA any
Read more…Hello everybody. I started my studies using SA for morphing. First I wanted to realize a tween morph simply with two pictures. It seemed that everything works perfect, but when I finally go >> Action >> Generate Frames >> Run Layer Tween Morph >> Sou
Read more…Hello, I have a simple question which might not be SA related, as it could be my computer buggering up somehow. -When I begin SA, I select a new source image, but none of my media will open at all. -The program seems to stop, as it doesn't open the i
Read more…I posted a simple tutorial on processing a movie with the Studio Artist Vectorizer in the Studio Artist Tutorials Group. For some reason Groups posts often don't seem to appear on the current topics links, so i'm posting here to let people know it's
Read more…I'm interested in using TGs to control scaling effects. I can see in 3RotateScale3 (I think that's what it's called) how to zoom out, but is there an MSG module that I can use to zoom in? thanks, Michael
Read more…I'm doing another pass on adding some additional Paint Synthesizer macro edits for Studio Artist 4. So i thought i'd throw open a discussion for additional high level paint editing options people would like to see available. Feel free to comment on t
Read more…Is there a tutorial or any posting somewhere which discusses using the texture synthesizer for displacement effects, particularly with respect to paint splatter styles? thanks, Michael
Read more…Ok - now I'm starting understand how to make stuff with the feedback warp, which is very cool. So now I'm wondering if there's any way to do video feedback style effects without the actual warping? For example, doing some kind of rotation or scaling
Read more…RE:Transformations using Vectorizer Keyframing I am having a tough time getting anywhere with the above tutorial. I have gone back and reviewed the layers and movie video tutorials on disc #2 - but still not understanding how to do what the tutoria
Read more…Apple released the long awaited OSX 10.5 yesterday at 6:00 pm. Developers finally got the actual release version of Leopard yesterday afternoon as well for testing. While you can run tests on various alpha versions, it's all meaningless until you run
Read more…I am wondering whether anyone in this forum uses Final Cut Express and if so, what capabilities it provides beyond SA.
Read more…Greetings all. I have "created" my first preset (by modifying an existing one) and have run into something that I cannot find the solution to. I believe I started with the Dry Oil preset and my goal was to keep the spacial distortion from that prese
Read more…trying to process movie file with a paint action seq, when the movie is loaded and begins processing a black screen always results even though the first step in the seq is set canvass to white.... followed the video exactly but seems like it is alway
Read more…I noticed Wacom has a contest where people can submit videos that show how to use the tablet for some application and the winners get free tablets. perhaps someone would be interested in submitting some Studio Artist tablet tutorials in the contest (
Read more…hello! is there anyone here who might know, the best way to go about re-creating scratches and flicker, in order to emulate more of an older and worn out gel film? here I am, sitting and thinking what might be the best way, and this is what I got s
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
Read more…"The Overload"! A video with music, from the various experiments I made in Studio Artist with stuff that I have learned in the last few days, from tips and tricks I found by scouring this site and the Synthetik site for tutorials etc. MSG! Paint Synth with MSG Path Generation! Movie Brushes with MSG Path Start Generation! Time Particles! Time Particles with MSG Path Start Generation running Movie Brushes! All that, and more! Haha I have been trying to stretch the Paint Synthesizer in the…
Read more…Hi, here is the video I made back in 2010 for my song "Teenage Tongue Cult". I finally found my master folder of image sequence files for it on one of my old hard drives, and since the version I had on my Vimeo was of pretty terrible pixelated low quality visually, I re-did it yesterday. It has extensive use of Studio Artist through the whole thing. I made it by first animating the characters and scenes in Flash, against a mostly kind of muddy green background, a color I knew wasn't being used…
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