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
