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…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…john, is there a way to paint in real time rather than frame by frame? thanks, donna
Read more…John, Random question. I was wondering if SA is capable of ingesting optical flow data and using this to drive paint strokes much how Mass Illusions used their 'Motion Paint' package to create the scenes in What Dreams May Come. SA seems to have man
Read more…I shot a live action video recently and the look we are going for is quite similar to the one seen here http://www.renaissance-lefilm.com/espacepresse.htm for the animated movie Renaissance. Granted they were using 3D with motion capture..ect to achi
Read more…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
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…How do I insert layer compositing into a PAS?
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…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…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…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…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…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…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 finally got some time to plunge into SA again this weekend and it was one of the highlights of the week for me. In looking back at some of the clips that I've created, I noticed that I'm still producing a lot of flicker. I've tried lowering the fr
Read more…excuse me, i'm new in studio artist. Can someone give me the basic instruction to do a correct morhing in this software? thanks bye
Read more…Hello all, I have a movie file processed with a PAS and then I reprocess the same with with the MorphTween All Frames command but most of the time it only completes half of the file and stops. Any ideas? I'm trying to create a "living painting" and w
Read more…is it possible to change/control what pallets appear in the Grad Tab?
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…
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