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BryceTalk Animation Case Study
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BryceTalk Animation, A Case Study, July 20, 1999
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Meta AuntiAlias: for instance, I'll describe what I did to make the earthworm movie that I posted earlier into a sorenson movie SunDogDeb: k Meta AuntiAlias: opened up regular movie (it was a basic Quicktime animation) in Movie Player.... Chose: File > Export (hang on a sec, here, I gotta launch the app...) Steve Lareau: Haha! Memory only gets you so far in life.... Meta AuntiAlias: k.. it's launched : ) and "earthworm.mov" is open... Steve Lareau: <chuckling> Meta AuntiAlias: File > Export... results in a dialog box... where you can name the movie. On the right is a button that says "Options..." Meta AuntiAlias: go THERE to Options, and there's a secondary place to choose your animation codec... Gigabyte: we're down to 10 now Steve Lareau: But a hearty 10! Steve Lareau: make that 9.... Meta AuntiAlias: and there are additional options there... Movie Settings: there's an area for Video... on Settings button there, you can choose Sorenson... and quality, which ranges from least to best... also, suggest you check the area marked: Prepare for Internet Streaming, and set pop-up menu to Fast Start that's what makes the movie play on a web page while it's still downloading Steve Lareau: Wow- I've got to get a copy of this..... Meta AuntiAlias: second method is using an application called Media Cleaner Pro... by Terran Interactive Steve Lareau: sounds MUCH easier than what I've been doing! Meta AuntiAlias: (they got bought by Media 100, but name is same, terrain interactive) Meta AuntiAlias: also... great book out there.. called Visual Quick Start guide: QuickTime Pro and Movie Player Steve Lareau: <jotting down notes> Meta AuntiAlias: there's a link to it on my _personal_ bookstore page http://www.auntialias.com/bookstore.shtml Steve Lareau: Shamless plug! I love it! Wheeeee!!!!!!!! Meta AuntiAlias: it's less than $20 and goes into ALL the stuff you can do with movie player a great reference Gigabyte: susan; when is your newest book coming out? Meta AuntiAlias: not today, not nexxt month, when it's ready... : ) Gigabyte: k Steve Lareau: Haha! Well played! Meta AuntiAlias: sorry to be so vague, but I hate giving false dates and ending up lying! :D also... Luie: kinda like infini-d 5.0 Meta AuntiAlias: www.codeccentral.com is good for finding out stuff about codecs Steve Lareau: LOL! Meta AuntiAlias: and let's see.. is their web page www.terran-int.com for terran interactive? yes Media Cleaner is great... has a Q & A it asks you about your movie, then it makes settings based on that Steve Lareau: I've heard some very good things about Media Cleaner... Luie: HOW BOUT DEBABILIZER AUNTI? Meta AuntiAlias: there is also a more expen$ive sorenson codec that you gotta shell out a few bills for... it allows you to do more fine tuning of the output... Steve Lareau: I messed with Debabelizer, and it worked for cleaning up things, and adjusting contrasts, colors, etc. pretty well... Meta AuntiAlias: the Star Wars trailer, for instance, used the higher-end Sorenson codec thingie terran sells the higher end codec, too Gigabyte: Is the event technically over now? Meta AuntiAlias: nearly... last question was on Sorenson.. which has turned into a mini-brain dump on quickTime movies : ) Steve Lareau: I don't have much more to add, other than to just experiment a lot. SunDogDeb: thanks Meta AuntiAlias: if you've got a quesiton, Gigabyte, we're here, aren't we Steve? Gigabyte: well, we're down to 8 now, I think, but, make that 7, gotta go cya all later Meta AuntiAlias: k.. well then, let's wrap things up!!
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