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'Media
clip' is quite an ubiquitous name..
A media
clip is a mean to communicate: that is to share
sensations. It takes all kinds of channels to extend
these sensations to the audience: images, sound, visual
effects, 3D, 2D, hand graphics.. Quite a lot of
dimensions to be taken in account!
While managing
different levels of transparencies, SuperimPoser adds a special touch of sensitivity
within the sequences.
The
assembling of sources within the video frames, promotes a
refined viewing experience, it deepens and illuminates
the content. And this is close to the very nature of
human communication: Shades and lights
The program will
greatly ease the
work of any purist going to "full 3D" or any
other school of Art. But maybe it is in the inspired
mixing of these different styles that SuperimPoser
can deliver the most sensations to the viewer.
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sequence, on the right side, assembles 5 layers of
transparencies with their own properties: in terms of
levels of transparencies, as well as in term of
"stillness" or "animation".
The
first level is the video background (jpg) with a
50% transparency, it is "frozen" in this
sequence when Amandine says "stop".
The second level is the
actor on the left, with samely a 50% transparency.
The third level is the the
actor on the right, with a 50% transparency applied on
him as well as on the two previous layers. This makes
him appear clearly before the composite background.
The fourth level is the
animated couloirs, with a 70% transparency, emphasizing
the movement of Amandine's steps, without
impairing the background visibility.
The fifth layer is
Amandine, appearing smoothly form a 100% transparency to
a 0%
transparency
(please see the benchmarks
for editing time) |
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| The same five
levels in action. The action is focused on Amandine. The
frozen background re-inforces the dynamics of the
foreground. She is eventually coming out of nowhere,
with her own environment, but this sequence allows a
transition without interrupting the thread of the story.
Moreover, both sequences co-exist in the same time
filling the scene with region of interest, for the eyes
to grab. It is known that stimulating the viewers eyes
movements is a good way to enhance the attention of the
viewer. |
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| The two
previous demos imply 3D generated PNG pictures. This
short demo will use common jpg
formats to illustrate the classical
"cross-fading" broadly used in animation to
make transition to from a sequence to another. Though it
is a standard, it must be noted that in this case, both
fading may be set with the precision of the frame: both
in duration and in the degrees of fading. In this
example, the first sequence (sun in the trees) fades
slowly (it could last minutes!), while the second
sequence appears very fast. The result for the
viewer is an increasing in the "surprise"
effect. Something is happening, but the issue is not
clearly guessable. |
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| This example
adds an additional level of transparency on the two
previous layers of the demo right above, still using a jpg, non-transparent
format. So, none of the files used here have transparency
capabilities. Moreover, for the sake of the
demonstration, the files are also "low
quality" files. This means that with any capture
device, digital camera or so, you may expect a
much finer aspect. |
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| This example
is made out with just 4 jpg files
in all. This gives a
clue about PNGSuperimPoser ability to superimpose and
vary transparencies out of any number of files. It does
not matter that the sequences to be processed dont
comprise the same number of files. The program will
offer various options to handle different cases. Here,
just 4 images are combined in 3 layers of transparency |
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The
three levels of transparency from the example above -
that is the output files-
are used as the background images in this demo. Then
another layer, consisting of PNG files is added at the
end of it. In all, we have a blend of PNG and JPG files,
issued by different sources (video, 3D, still images).
Other formats can be used such as BMP, TIF, GIF. |
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