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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: selco on January 25, 2003, 03:33:45 PM
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An little video made on Amiga and Draco is now available on Aminet. Size is 13 Meg.
ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/pix/mpg/littlejedi.readme
ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/pix/mpg/littlejedi.mpg
It shows what can be done with our 50 MHz machines!
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cute - it downloads a lot faster off the US aminet site, however. . .http://us.aminet.net
kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com
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Hehe nice :-D
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Short and Sweet! :-D
Loki
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Poster: Loki1 Date: 2003/1/25 22:02:03
Short and Sweet!
Dude, What's Mine Say
And Then?
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...sweet! ...and what about mine?
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That is great!
I have been cusing these 500 MHz PEECEE's of mine because they arn't fast enough to use my fire wire card ARRRRRRG! I hate wintell boxes. An 800Mhz Amiga should be able to do quite a lot. After all, Apple was using 800MHz boxes with final cut pro. Some things may not be realtime, but so what, it's got to be better than what I have, or should I say, don't have. :-)
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Very cool.
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YUP LOVELY!!! :)
:-P :-) :-) :-) :-)
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Very nice, can you tell us alittle on the software side you used for putting it together?
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cool. I remember the last app I use for this kind of stuff... Clarissa. Very smooth !
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Nice to see you like it!
@Calen:
Sure. The video was captured with a Draco, running Amiga OS3.9 and Movieshop5. Darco and Amiga are connected via Ethernet using the latest version of Envoy. ( A must-buy software for everyone who have more the one Amiga IMHO) On the Amiga the lightsaber was created in Lightwave. It had the same dimensions as the original broomstick. The short scene (262 Frames) were exported from Draco to the Amiga. In Lightwave the Frames were used as background . Now it was a huge work to position the lighsaber to match the movement of the original broomstick as close as possible. This has been done about every 5 frames, then much fine-adjusting in the 3d space was necessary. When I was satisfied with the movement I retushed the broomstick from all frames with TVPaint manually. Now the final render with lightwave added the lightsaber to all frames where the broomstick was before.
The intro text is one big picture made with TVPaint. TVPaint is no good text processing program, so this was some work too. (You can only type one line of text. Then you must place the line into the picture. Write the next line and so on. Unfortunately the font had no German Umlauts, so I had to add the two points on all umlauts manually) The Text-picture was loaded into lightwave and there used as a moving texture for a plane in space.
The stars were a different lightwave project. In fact there is a cluster of 56000 stars in different sizes there, all slowly moving. The mpeg-encoder however removed most them :-( So the stars look much better on my video-output. All pictures were copied back to the Draco. Movieshop5 is a phantastic video edititng/cutting program, so it was quite easy to put all the pictures together and place the sound to the apropriate pictures. The sound was edited with samplitude. The pictures and the sound have been exported to the Amiga again. There the final mpeg has been made with ffmpeg 0.4.6 (PPC).
TVPaint, and Samplitude are freely available now and really must-have programs.
ffmpeg is freeware.
regards selco
http://selco.da.ru
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Phew! Thats quite alot of work..well done on that.
look forward to seeing any of your creations in the future.
Thanks for the info.
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Very nice!
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Just a shame it was not a bit longer.
good though. :-D
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Real cool! :) If you want to use more Star Wars-spaceships, take a look at the "Lights over Mars"-cdrom. It includes tons of models in formats for Lightwave, Imagine, Monzoom, Reflections and Monzoom. For other programms you can also use a convert-programm.
8-)
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Very cool! :-) Thumbs up!