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- From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
- Subject: Re: MorphPlus Used On Quantum Leap
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.195448.27182@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Summary: ASDG puts barber shops out of business! Film at 11.
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- References: <69311@cup.portal.com> <1992Nov12.183345.3505@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 19:54:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.183345.3505@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> rcj2@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (ray.c.jender) writes:
- >In article <69311@cup.portal.com> pk-asdg@cup.portal.com (Perry S Kivolowitz) writes:
- >>The episode of Quantum Leap, which aired last night (November 10)
- >>contained morph effects created using ASDG's MorphPlus and transferred
- >>back to digital video using ASDG's Abekas driver.
- >
- > Gee Perry, thanks for telling us about it the day after!
-
- 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.
-
- Towards the end there was another scene using the distortion effects of
- Morph+; I don't understand the context but these two women began to twist
- and distort before disappearing entirely. It appeared to be a key of the
- two women in front of what'shisface that plays Al, with Bakula standing off
- to the side since he was in the foreground. The first time I watched it, I
- thought that only the first woman was meant to be distorting, and the second
- woman was caught in the effect by carelessness or accident, but apparently
- they both were supposed to do that.
-
- (I haven't watched QL in years - but my kill file entry "/QL/j" in
- rec.arts.sf.tv started catching as many as 50 messages a day right after
- that episode so there must be something going on...)
-
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