Editing in Photoshop does it give you nightmares?

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:55 pm

only thing I hate about paint is it's only got a 16-bit pallet so I gotta do little skin graft procedures to get the right colors coordinated (note my first video, the old lady's lips are pink... not sure how that happened but stupid noob me didn't catch it... then in my second video things are MUCH more uniform. Not perfect but it's amazing what you miss when it's 100% and moving ;p)

It used to take me like 6 hours per scene (and that's in MSPaint... doesn't sound like it differs... in fact I've found Irfanview is TOO precise... MSPaint is better. But that's only one pass, if it's bad I gotta do it over ya know. But now it only takes me like 3 hours. mostly cuz I don't do EVERY single position no more... only the basics. Akira is a bitch.)

It'll get alot easier the second time when you can imagine it 100% and moving. Keeping a notebook of the coordinates you took and the ones you put on is a MUST also a stopwatch is nice though 1 time I went without... most words are 3 frames it seems lol. Shutting ppl up is alot harder than it would seem though...

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:55 pm

It surely gives nightmares, since rotoscoping, or even deawinf on Photoshop to do an amv's clips it's quite.. As it's been already said, time-consuming.

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:01 pm

oh save it in bmp it's 16-bit (or pretty much one solid color), save it in jpg it's practically 24-bit (or 32-bit, they're pretty much the same) so sometimes you might want to go for the reduced quality for the sake of art ;p. Remember your doing this for you so don't be afraid to just finish your video up even if it's 1 pixel to much up, you'll never notice it in xvid.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:18 pm

When you get better at it, you can cut out characters within 5 minutes or less. It's extremely short and easier when the character is zoomed in alot nearly taking up the entire screen.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:22 pm

trythil, in <a href=http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=734575#734575>a different thread</a>, wrote:<a href="http://www.gimp.org/">GIMP</a> 2.3.3 has just been released. It contains a prototype of the <a href="http://www.siox.org/">Simple Interactive Object Extraction</a> foreground-selection algorithm, which has some pretty cool applications for rotoscoping and similar operations.

Thought someone here might find this interesting. Can't wait to try it myself.

Poetic_Kaos · Post by **Poetic_Kaos** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:33 pm

6 hours for 5 frames. I can't say that is normal. I've rotoscoped a CG character doing a cartwheel in a low contrast enviroment, and it took less time.

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:38 pm

Castor Troy wrote:When you get better at it, you can cut out characters within 5 minutes or less. It's extremely short and easier when the character is zoomed in alot nearly taking up the entire screen.

I've always found it easier to cut out characters and objects in AE than Photoshop personally, but yeah- once you get good at it using any program, you can really fly.

genestarwind21122 · Post by **genestarwind21122** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:07 pm

Thanks to everyone for their help. I have the problem corrected.

Gene Starwind 21122

But still it can be a nightmare sometimes.

-Sage- · Post by **-Sage-** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:18 am

A....a... ahahaha... 0_o
I have only one question - how much does it take to make a good, fine AMV? A week? or a month? (Actualy i think it's a worthly spent time because when people work a lot on something one - it gets shiny as a daimond

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SuperFusion · Post by **SuperFusion** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:43 am

You can spend 6 months on a vid and it can still suck.