Hello, I have a source video which has a black border around it. I was wondering if there'd be a way for me to use Studio Artist to remove it. I thought I could use region selection but I can't figure out how to. I want the border gone and whatever t
Read more…I have been using a technique with Region Selections that helps me a lot and thought I would pass it on to everyone. It's a "retouching" method. If there is an area on an image that I want to match another area, I mask it and then feather the edges o
Read more…Hi! I hope I'm doing this right, Ning is still a bit mysterious for me. I just wanted to introduce myself, I'm Florence and I do abstract art. I have been using Studio Artist irregularly and don't know much about it, but I'm having fun :-) You can se
Read more…I have been playing with regionalize painting first using some of the region painter presets and more productively creating selective auto regions and then painting inside those regions. I am having difficulty finding the proper Image Op that will pr
Read more…Hello, I'd be very interested in seeing tutorials on embedding paths in paseqs, as well as generating bez keyframes automatically. In other words, all of chapter 7 in the manual. Does something like this exist anywhere? thanks, Michael
Read more…John, if you get a minute i wonder if you could answer a basic question re. layers.in your first tutorial on disc 2 you go to the layers window, press new and create a second layer which is white, similiarly in the final tutorial on the disc you do i
Read more…hi, i have created a short QT movie using a PAS, the movie compression was set to DV PAL, at 25 fps. I have tried processing it with the tween morph option by creating "1" new cell between frames in order to stop the jittery nature of it and smooth i
Read more…Hi all! I am very happy to have found this wonderful place and this kind community. So, as this is my first post, let me thank you for setting this up. I d like to inform John that another creative software's John has mentioned his work in his popul
Read more…Can Studio Artist take advantage of a dual processor (dual thread)? I have a G4 450 and am thinking about an upgrade 1.8Ghz processor which is in single and dual cpu format. All this for faster rendering.
Read more…How do I insert layer compositing into a PAS?
Read more…Im a new Studio Artist user and plan on using it for rotoscoping short films. I went through the tutorials on rotoscoping and understand the basic idea of applying the desired effects to a single frame and then letting the program auto-rotoscope the
Read more…I am just wondering if anyone has ever tried this or has any ideas on different setting, presets, approaches..ect for creating something resembling the work of Gustav Dore. He was famous for the many etching he did (particularly those inspired by Dan
Read more…I realize it may not be possible, but the word "Photos" just doesn't do justice to all the SA goodies everyone is posting. be
Read more…I have a folder with paintings done in SA over the last ten years or so. Maybe I'm off a year or two. Anyway, because I've had a number of Macs over that time and my folders may be on a different volume name, SA painting sessions that I did years ago
Read more…Tori Amos has invited amatures to create a music video for her song Bouncing off Clouds. Details for the contest are available here. They provide multiple camera angles of Amos performing against a green screen back ground. It appears as if there ar
Read more…When I open a new photo that is smaller than the canvas size, Studio Artist stretches (and distorts it) it so that it fits the canvas size. I have been able to work around this by either enlarging the photo to fit the canvas or by adding background i
Read more…I don't see any TGs in this MSG preset so I don't know how to slow down the animation it produces - tried changing (lowering) the few existing parameters, but it is a no go. I want to use this MSG preset to process a movie in SA, but I need to find a
Read more…Is it possible to get transparent backgrounds in SA? I'd like to be able to create animations in SA and composite them back into Final Cut projects.
Read more…I have discovered way to trick SA into saving greater size files. At present I have been able to save files around 300 megs( 27x41") at 300 dpi. I enlarge the canvas using supersizer and then usually sharpen it. If I get a message that says I don't h
Read more…Can anyone suggest some way to make the line edges created by this brush be smoother? if you view at even a moderate zoom level, the edges are very jagged. What parameter could be tweaked to accomplish this (it's often a probem with my presets)? than
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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