quicktime movies in missions

Andcarne

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Originally posted by modesty_blaise_us:
**what´s final cut express....is it a lite version of final cut pro...?

Does anyon eknow how to use bluescreening...?
tried at a friend though it was not final cut...some PC program...and wasn´t able to figure it out... :frown:

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I've been doing a fair bit of this lately, and its pretty simple in Final Cut Pro. As David Arthur mentioned, the important part is having flat, uniform lighting that cuts shadows completely from any direction.

You also need a fairly light colored blue or green screen. Also, make sure none of the subjects are wearing the chosen color, as they will mysteriously dissappear.

After that, its just a matter of applying the filter, and tweaking it until you get the desired results.

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orcaloverbri9

In response to the topic starting post...

Yes, you can include movies in missions. Duh. No offense, but are you just starting or something?

Yes, you can include movies in the shipyard. There's a field at the end of the shïp resource.

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zhouj

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Originally posted by orcaloverbri9:
**In response to the topic starting post...

Yes, you can include movies in missions. Duh. No offense, but are you just starting or something?

Yes, you can include movies in the shipyard. There's a field at the end of the shďp resource.

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You've made a lot mistakes too. Are you just starting also? There's no need for such rhetoric. He's asking for help and not going on telling everyone about how he's going to start a TC.

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orcaloverbri9

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Originally posted by zhouj:
You've made a lot mistakes too. Are you just starting also? There's no need for such rhetoric. He's asking for help and not going on telling everyone about how he's going to start a TC.

Dude, you're taking my comments WAY too seriously...

modesty_blaise_us: Believe me when I say that most questions like these can be answered with a quick run-through of the Bible. The Bible is the final word; heed its wisdom.

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mrxak

Easy folks. It might not have been the most polite way of giving advice, but I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it.

what_is_the_matrix

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Originally posted by Kame:
**Ha, not entirely related to this topic but reading modesty_blaise's post about poor animation skills gave me an idea for a plug. I think someone actually mentioned doing it before... It would be something really chinsy. All in the style of pencil doodles.
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I actually tried that once. I tried to render EV's ships like how a young child would draw them, but I lost the files in a reformat. It was pretty funny while it lasted.

Matrix

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Originally posted by David Arthur:
**If you wanted to do animation and edit it in iMovie, you would have to render it at TV quality, convert it to DV format, edit it, and then convert it back, with all the quality loss inherent.

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I didn't mean that the animation footage would pass through iMovie; I only meant that iMovie would be used to input live-action footage into the computer and convert it to a QuickTime movie. A (cheap, hopefully) specifically QuickTime-oriented program would then be used to combine the live-action footage with QT animations produced by a 3D graphics app.

However, doing bluescreening in iMovie in the way you describe can be a whole lot cheaper than buying any version of Final Cut, and that might matter. I didn't do a thorough search for options, but I found this (url="http://"http://www.macworld.com/2002/10/reviews/imovie/")review(/url) of eZedia eZeScreen, a plug that adds bluescreening capabilities to iMovie. It cost $39 in 2002. I wasn't aware of the interlacing-related issues you raise, though. Video isn't something I know a whole lot about, but maybe the quality drop won't matter too much for something that (if it is destined for an EVN plug) is going to end up reduced to something like 320 X 240 pixels or smaller.

Zacha Pedro

The president of MUAAUMDS (Modem Users Association Against the Use of Movies in Downloadable Software, or something like that), me, for that matter, reminds you to keep these things minimal and do not make people download a 30Mb movie, to see it's a badly done thing.

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Andcarne

If movies are used, I'm sure people will be considerate enough to make two seperate downloads.

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Zyvorg

I like that strongbad plugin idea!

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