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Try putting your Photoshop 7 cd in your cd tray and then launching it. I had the same problem. I don't know what caused it, but this is what fixed it for me. I only had to do this once. It now works fine. Hope this works for you.
Thread: I'm new to the site and have a few questions 8-) | Forum: Animation
Most of the people here that are doing character work are using Poser 4. It's inexpensive and has a wealth of resources available for it, both free and non-free. Check out the freestuff and marketplace to see what I mean. The learning curve is not too bad, and it's great for doing character stills, although it's animation tools are a little lacking. A lot of the time, you will want to do post-render work on your images, and for that you will need a good bitmap editor, such as Photoshop, Painter, Paint Shop Pro, PhotoPaint, etc. Paint Shop Pro seems to be the program of choice for the budget-conscious artists. Photoshop is the industry standard for image retouching and manipulation, but it is expensive. PhotoPaint falls somewhere in the middle, and Painter is for simulating natural media such as oils, pastels, etc. Hope this is useful to you.
Thread: Help on post work | Forum: Animation
If you are using a program like the ones I mentioned, then you don't need to compress anything prior to editing. You simply load the image sequence and the editor will play the sequence as though it were a video, allowing you to make edits like you would with any piece of video. This is subject to the limits of your hardware of course, as are all things. You will want a fast hard drive, fast processor, lots of RAM, and a good graphics card. If the hardware is having trouble with the uncompressed image sequence, then you can create low res proxies (like .jpg stills or low res movie files) to use in the editing and then swap back to the uncompressed images when you are ready to do your final output. If your video editor doesn't support image sequences, then you will need something to turn the stills into a video file before loading it into the editor. If you have to do this, be very careful with the compression that you use, because once you have finished your editing and output your final video file, you may end up with double compression artifacts due to the images having been compressed twice instead of once.
Thread: Help on post work | Forum: Animation
Render to a series of image files whenever possible. I recommend .tga files, as they are cross platform, can contain alpha channels, and do not discard information like lossy formats do. .bmp files are also good, if you are on a Windows system and do not need alpha channels. This way, you do not lose work when a render crashes late into an animation (and believe me, such things happen all too often). Additionally, the image files can then be easily loaded and tweaked in Photoshop if you like. Image sequences can also be loaded directly into compositing programs like After Effects, or video editors like Premiere, and then output as various video formats like .avi, .mpeg, .mov, etc., using a variety of codecs. I am not familiar with Pinnacle Studio 7, so I can't tell you anything about it's capabilities in this regard. I hope this helps you out a bit.
Thread: Animaion: master | Forum: Animation
I believe the only place you would be able to get a demo is from the Animation:Master '99 Handbook, by Jeff Paries. It is out of print now, but if you search around, you might still be able to find a copy. (I've recently seen one in the discount section at a local Borders bookstore, for example.) The A:M 2000 handbook which replaced it does not include a demo, nor will any future editions, to my knowledge. Hash no longer offers demo versions, instead, they have a 30 day money back guarentee when you purchase the software from them. Hope this is useful to you.
Thread: Hash Animation Master forum? | Forum: Community Center
Sounds good to me too. Hash is a very powerful app., and probably the best bang for the buck in animation software today.
Thread: what's the 411 on this ? | Forum: Photoshop
Main Entry: videography Pronunciation: "vi-dE-'gr&-fE Function: noun Date: 1972 : the practice or art of recording images with a video camera - videographer /-f&r/ noun You can use Photoshop to edit frames of video one at a time (if you have them in a format that Photoshop can read), and Image Ready (which comes with Photoshop) has some useful tools for creating animated gifs. However, I suspect you are more interested in bona fide video editing, for which I would recommend Adobe Premiere. You may also be interested in creating motion graphics, for which Adobe After Effects is an excellent choice. I hope this is useful to you. :)
Thread: Building up an image in a special way... | Forum: Animation
Adobe After Effects - production bundle - can do exactly this sort of thing using the Particle Playground feature. Use the layer exploder to create particles from your picture, adjust properties as desired to make them fly around, precompose the effect, and then reverse the footage to achieve the particles "becoming" the picture. Hope this helps you out. James Hartzell owner/operator - JLM Multimedia Enterprises
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Thread: trouble installing photoshop 7 in windows xp | Forum: Photoshop