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- From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
- Subject: Re: MorphPlus Used On Quantum Leap
- Message-ID: <Bxz0tn.F4G@javelin.sim.es.com>
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- Reply-To: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
- Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
- References: <1992Nov13.195448.27182@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <kmeyer.0fqc@amiganet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:08:11 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <kmeyer.0fqc@amiganet.chi.il.us>, kmeyer@amiganet.chi.il.us (Karl Meyer) writes:
- > >A client of mine taped this and I've seen the morph scenes now. They don't
- > >look all that great, frankly. Not because of the morph itself - that is
- > >smooth and clean - but the editing around it was not quite perfect, and made
- > >it obvious that the morph was done bewteen two still frames (and I thought
- > >Morph+ allowed morphs along moving video?). For example, Bakula's head was
- > >moving back before and after the morph scene (which is basically of a girl
- > >getting shorter hair). But the before and after positions of the actress's
- > >body were very well matched, and the morph itself, as I said, looked fine.
- >
- >
- > It does allow for moving morphs but this requires a) a lot of time b) a lot of
- > skill and c) the right equipment.
- >
- > I assume a or b to be the reason since presumably the equipment was there. I
- > don't see how you could use mutiple machines to do this so the best you could
- > get would be 33Mhz 040 performance. Secondly, in order to do moving morphs it
- > would take pretty good familiarity with both Morph Plus and Fred which isn't
- > the easiest thing to figure out. I'd guess that if they continue to use this in
- > the future there will be moving morphs done.
-
- I've done full motion morphs with Imagemaster and rendering a 15 frame morph
- sequence took just under two minutes/frame on a 25Mhz 3000 at 752 X 480 resolution
- in 24 bit color. I used about 300 control points but more could have been used
- without a time penalty. The setup took roughly 2 hours. The frames were recorded
- to tape using the Personal SFC and a Video Toaster.
-
- --
- David
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