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Drop Shadows

hello, is it possible to add drop shadows to paint strokes (similary PS-layer effects can do), when drawing in interactive pen-mode?

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movie stream and recording a PASeq

I have used the movie stream before, and it has not been a prob. But i noticed in some of the PASeq presets, ie, Presets - default - general - AutoWoodPrint1 that it doesnt actually record anything. It seems that if there are image ops in the preset

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Preset question

Hi, I stored the some presets here: SA folder: Preset folder>Paint Styles>Dee's presets> 15 presets When accessing them, these are 2 possible routes: Presets>Paint Synth>User>Dee's presets Presets>Paint Synth>Paint Styles>Dee's presets 3 are hist

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art map query

Two things really 1. how do i batch process a folder of movies so that i can use them in the MSG art map.i can find batch options for images /single movies etc. 2. i have used the SA supplied source movies to create an artmap, but i am unable to see

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Why does this brush stop?

Can someone (John?) tell me why this brush stops drawing so soon when I hit Action? I'd like it to go on relatively indefinitely, or at least up to the point of the Path Start setting. Thanks much. Dennis

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Quicktime 7.4

I noticed this post on another forum this morning: 'Just a heads up. Apples latest Quicktime 7.4 update disables some ‘legacy’ codecs, specifically Sorenson and Sorenson 3. If you need to use these codecs, you must enable them within Quicktime Prefe

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how to mirror the 2nd nib?

just another stupid question: i'm painting with two nibs with a wide spread in interactive multipaintmode. I can't find the settings to mirror the 2nd nib, (also I wanna do directly, interactive kaleidoscope-drawings, not as a post-process in warp-mo

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Custom User Presets for Testing

We've been running all the custom user presets we have here at Synthetik as an aid in testing Studio Artist 4 development builds, and they are proving quite valuable to hunt down remaining bugs in the code. So i wanted to mention this so that anyone

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Outline

Hi, I am looking for some straight outlines. Something like the ones you can find here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/athoskat/15149343/ So far all I could discover myself is sort of too feathery or too fiddly. Happy for any tip. Thanks in advance.

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Bezier & anchor points

hey, just wondering if there is a way to delete anchor points once I've drawn a selection with Bezier Draw? sometimes they drop down in useless amounts, way too many. I've been re-arranging anchor points (are these also called nodes?) for the better

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setting up system for edit

Hello! I've got two basic questions: 1) I need to capture material from mini DV to my LaCie drive working with Avid. I've currently got an old PowerBook G4. It seems as if I have to capture from the tape to my system drive then transfer the media to

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signals for zooming, displacing, etc

The other day I was thinking about all of the interesting signals that SA can apply to various parameters--random walks, spirals, etc, and wondering. One of the things I do when making abstract animations is to start with source material which are of

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animation

Has anyone tried using studio artist with somthing like toonboom to enhance 2-d animation

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How to slow down brush strokes.

I really like the result of using this brush preset on single frames of a movie, but when I use the preset to process an entire movie the strokes are much too fast and the result simply looks like chaos. Can someone suggest how to slow down the strok

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'Batch processing?'

Okay, so I want to stitch a folder of images into a video clip without any effects. This seems easy enough, so I thought to use the 'Process Image Folder...With PASeq' command, with 'Set Layer to Source Image' as the only step in the stack. ... is t

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Warp

I want to save a warp in a paint action sequence for the use in a video later. Is there any random-functionality that it might be possible to shift the center of the warp-activity or do I have to do something like that frame by frame? Thanks in adv

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Santa paint Presets available for download

Someone asked about the Santa painting i recently posted here. i kind of tossed it off really quickly so i don't think it's one of my better pieces, but the paint presets i used to make it as well s this fractal image are kind of cool. So i posted th

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Things that prevent magical 'flow' state in SA

Ran across two interesting postings that look at the increasing frequency of interruptions in our world (Twitter being the perfect example) and how that precludes getting into the flow state, and I think for artists, flow is important. http://headru

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quicktime in MSG.

I am trying to process some QT videos in MSG, I am unable to load them unless they have been processed first in SA. My movie comp settings are the same in both programmes = DV pal 25 fps. I am also seeing the first QT film i loaded, always in the to

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View layer controls

Hey folks! Here's a question that continually baffles me: when I'm toying around with building up a picture, I like to play around my transparency modes. I'll mutz around until I come up with something that I want to play with as a PASeq. When I try

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