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DigitalCrystal
09-10-2003, 08:02 PM
Hey folks,

I'm using combustion. I've completed an animation with DV recorded 'pool' water and now I'm looking for ways of making it loop smoothly in 3rd party viewer. (quicktime, wmp, etc). I have the water footage playing forward until about half way and then reverse the footage so that it only slightly looks like the water has changed, but the ripples remain the same, just the direction changes. The hurdle now is to make the looping look smooth so that the footage on the ends meshes. I've found that quicktime doesn't go full screen, but it does give the cleanest results. WMP goes fullscreen but the codecs are crap (at least the ones I've been using are). Any suggestions of on the method of rendering is what I'm really asking I suppose. I have the divx codecs on my computer, but have never used them. The size of the file doesn't matter.

I need it to go full screen and as clean as possible.

Are there any suggestions for what I should render with would be great!

Thanks in advance yall.
DigitalCrystal
09-10-2003, 09:31 PM
For what it's worth, I also have Discreet Cleaner XL as well. I've never used it, but I do have it.
Chris
09-10-2003, 11:09 PM
Run it through Cleaner XL - I havent got it anymore, but when I was betatesting it, you could output a Quicktime file that would automatically play back full screen (it was called presentation, or theatre or something like that)
geoff3dnz
09-10-2003, 11:38 PM
Any quicktime file will play back full screen - if you have quicktime pro - there's an option called 'Present Movie' which allows you to display it full screen.
:)
BigSky
09-19-2003, 09:53 AM
Your water loop will probably not look great if you do the reverse footage thing.
Here's a suggestion:

Layout your footage in a timeline, and then cut it midway.

Move the 2 pieces of footage onto 2 layers.

Take the end half to the head.
Take the start half to the tail, and your 'start' jump should now
be in the middle.

ie:

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

to:


IIIIIIIIIIIIIII..........................
..................IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

to:

....>>.................IIIIIIIIIIIIIII
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII...<<..........


now you can overlap the footage slightly in the middle:

..................IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII...................
then do a dissolve in on the top layer.

With a bit of luck, this should work well to give you a seamless loop.
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