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Technical explanations

Is there anywhere that I could learn a little on the technical side of Studio Artist's feaures and processes? I like having a bit of background reference for my brain to relate to when I create something, and in particular I'm thinking of the Image O

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Newbie problems

Hello all, I don't know if this is an issue of Panther or just a lack of understanding on my part but none of the basic functions under the "Edit" selection seems to work: Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, Select All, Deselect All, Invert Selection, Path, Fli

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Trey Gunn Soliciting Animators.

I'm just passing this on in case any Studio Artist animators are interested in participating. Trey Gunn (bass player for some versions of King Crimson) has begun solicting filmmakers and animators to add visuals to the tracks for his new CD "Music f

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rerender question

i am creating a history seq, with a view to rerendering to a higher resolution. I create two painted layers, on the second layer I apply a PASQ-USER-DIRECTIONAL LIGHTING preset I flatten the layers, up the size in rerender, then run the "session hist

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regionalizers presets (again)

Sorry to be redundant, but I am trying to use a regionalizer preset in Image Operations It gets halfway through the image and the action just gives up. I'm using a low res image. I have SA 3.5.2 running on an Intel MacBook Pro with 4 gigs of RAM. I

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msg

i am trying to add some hi res presets to self animating presets and sometimes it works and sometimes my computer makes a very annoyed percussive sound until i stop. other times it works but turns the images only red or blue. i got very interested in

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why divx?

I'm researching divx pro for MAC as an encoding & playback codec. Can anyone who has used it talk about the experience. How well does it work? How would you compare it to using QuickTime (ease, efficiency of the codec, etc). Is it more universal (

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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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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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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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bezier warp

hi john, i'm having trouble figuring out how to use the bezier warp function. not the timeline animation or the warp in the tutorial where you manually draw in bezier curves but the bezier warp function listed with the other bezier functions such as

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Geodesic Interpolation question

When playing around with PaSEQ/default/general/AutoPaint1, and the Geodesic Interpolation action runs, the white of the canvas is filled in with color from all the paint strokes, nicely. So now I play around with sample brushes that were posted recen

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Line drawing smoothness

This is actually following up on a comment that Painter has a "feature" I would like to see in Studio Artist. The feature that Painter has had from a long time back - that I am fond of - that many other applications have not been able to match: Smoot

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Studio Artist vs Painter

I love Studio Artist but because at the present SA is Mac only it is not as well known as Corel Painter. I've heard the comment in other forums that Studio Artist is a fun program to use but for serious digital art Painter is a must have program. Is

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