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PC Animation to Cassie

X-Paul_Lowry
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Nov 15, 2001, 9:03 AM

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My notebook PC has an S-Video output of the screen content. I recently used that video output to dub Macromedia Flash animations on to my Cassie for use in an edit. I made the Flash animation with ULead's $45 COOL3D program which outputs as .AVI, Flash, and GIF file formats. The Flash5 player gives you keyboard stop/start control of the Flash animation. Once you loaded the video animation you can use Cassie's bluebox to key the animation over a scene or (if you have an old Toaster as I do) luminance key in real time. Either way, COOL3D (which was originally designed for web graphics alone) give you tons of options to incorporate digital stills and flying objects or text that can be used in your video edit. By the way, laptops with "s-video out" let you use the huge font variety on a PC as your character generator source. So, hook up your notebook PC's video out to the cassie and incorporate your digit images into your video. Just make your graphics in the TV 4x3 ratio.
ALSO, if you have a LARGE digital still in your PC, you can use the up,down.l/r scroll arrows to smoothly pan or tilt over the graphic. Feeding that PC screen output directly to your Cassie give you an excellent animation-stand quality movement. Note: the larger the digial image, the smoother the pan.
Let me know if you come up with some other uses.
Paul
Manhattan

X-Frank
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Nov 16, 2001, 11:43 AM

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Re: PC Animation to Cassie	Can't Post

: My notebook PC has an S-Video output of the screen content. I recently used that video output to dub Macromedia Flash animations on to my Cassie for use in an edit. I made the Flash animation with ULead's $45 COOL3D program which outputs as .AVI, Flash, and GIF file formats. The Flash5 player gives you keyboard stop/start control of the Flash animation. Once you loaded the video animation you can use Cassie's bluebox to key the animation over a scene or (if you have an old Toaster as I do) luminance key in real time. Either way, COOL3D (which was originally designed for web graphics alone) give you tons of options to incorporate digital stills and flying objects or text that can be used in your video edit. By the way, laptops with "s-video out" let you use the huge font variety on a PC as your character generator source. So, hook up your notebook PC's video out to the cassie and incorporate your digit images into your video. Just make your graphics in the TV 4x3 ratio.
: ALSO, if you have a LARGE digital still in your PC, you can use the up,down.l/r scroll arrows to smoothly pan or tilt over the graphic. Feeding that PC screen output directly to your Cassie give you an excellent animation-stand quality movement. Note: the larger the digial image, the smoother the pan.
: Let me know if you come up with some other uses.
: Paul
: Manhattan