@Bobsonsirjonny
I had Aura 2 for about a year but never used it then I upgraded free to Aura 2.5 but still never used it. Always used Photoshop and Premier. Then I saw the webcam streaming from Siggraph by Newtek showing Aura and it looked great. Still didn't use it though, Photoshop is always there. Correction I did use it to convert an mpeg to avi as it was quicker than Premier.
Now I have this nightmare project. 20 mins of a non edited fashion show(30 garments) on vcd that has to go on the web. Converting the dat to mpeg gives a 450Mb file! Each garment needs to be indevidually edited and given visual treatments.
I wanted to know how Aura would handle this on my home 800Mhz 256Mb PC. It is fine, better than fine. Not quite realtime but just needs a fraction of a second to update. The thing I love is that it allows you to visually set the start and stop markers of the video. This allows me to cut the video file even before loading it in.
The garments tend to get lost as the model wanders around the hall. To solve this I blur the area around the garment. Not by hand but automated using a path that follows a pixel on the garment. At set keyframes I can alter the blur settings.
I had to time section for the quote. The first one took me about an hour to do 4 garments. That's getting the theory, learning how to do it and applying it in practice.
I use the Photoshop Actions and Automate whenever possible. I am also a big fan of Premier and now I can add Aura as another lifesaver. I definately underrated this one.
Valan
