Wednesday, April 13, 2011

NAB 2011, Look Alive Mike Evans, this is for you

LOOK ALIVE MIKE EVANS, THIS IS FOR YOU:


sat through the Maxon Cinema 4D 3d object creation software demo. the thing that stuck out (and the thing they wanted you to remember) is that it really plays nice with adobe after effects.
you can create a scene with lights and a camera move in C4D, then render it. that timeline can then go into after effects and the camera and lights come into the AE timeline too. chyron can also accept that kind of timeline into lyric too, so that might actually be handy on a couple of different levels.
ALSO, what was neat-o was that while cinema 4D was rendering the file, the guy was still able to put it on the after effects timeline & start to mess with it. as more rendered, more appeared on the AE timeline. i could definitely see this as a time saver, especially for my ADHD @ss.

the guy in the demo used an illustrator file and a plug in (which he just happened to develop imagine the coincidence) so it was difficult to sense how easy/hard it was to create your own 3D objects, but all in all this seemed pretty neat-o.

also, in the mevans file, a quick chat with the Flip-Factory kids revealed nothing, or everything, depending upon some testing. on the frame skipping issue, Josh McMahon said:
mpeg's are Upper first
mov's are lower first.

he also gave no "recommended render settings" because Flip-Factory should theoretically handle anything

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