Just when things looked bleak ... it seems as if I got a royal grant for improvements to the studio. This means a new computer! I just did a wedding video for a daughter of a friend of Yoko. My valiant little laptop crashed 5 times. It just doesn't have enough chug. I had done my title bumper and while everything seemed okay in test mode it would not render the final product.
Lady Sylvia gave me a budget that was much larger than I was looking ... and words of wisdom. Don't scrimp. Still when I first started looking at buying I was amazed. Dell wanted $3000 for a top of the line computer. Ernie pointed me in the right direction and I decided because of my needs to go with the I7 processor. I found a Dell at Best Buy. And pricing around it was cheaper than all the rest of the compreable models. Even Dell!!! Why is it that the same specs on a Dell computer from THEIR site is $400 dollars more.
The new computer is up but not running. Toon Boom is loaded (something even Ernie couldn't do with the laptop.) I am getting a KVM switch cable to connect my old computer and new to the monitor, mouse and keyboard. And somewhere I need to find a mini jack y splitter with ONE female and TWO males. Sounds dirty ... huh?
Friday, March 26, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
The Instructions are in Ancent Aramaric...
One of the things I am trying to do is take the segments, put them in order and publish them. So I went and got out 3 books ... and while they explain what to do ... they don't tell you what to do if you made this and saved it as itself ... on it's own.
So here's what you do.
Open the first film to be your segment. Minimize it. Open the next intended segment. Select ALL the frames and right click. From the directory choose copy frames. Then close the movie. Reopen the first. Open the windows and open segments. Open another segment ... select the first frame and right click. From the menu choose paste frames.
This will create the new segment. You repeat for each scene and then publish.
So here's what you do.
Open the first film to be your segment. Minimize it. Open the next intended segment. Select ALL the frames and right click. From the directory choose copy frames. Then close the movie. Reopen the first. Open the windows and open segments. Open another segment ... select the first frame and right click. From the menu choose paste frames.
This will create the new segment. You repeat for each scene and then publish.
Some Real Progress
This last weekend, I made some real progress.
Finally.
I redid the ihop commercial . It was basically the same material as I used the first time. But this time it was done tighter. The time bar is much slicker. I am learning.
I did the end titles. I reused and colored the black and white title holder and added the credits. It worked great.
I did the Dulci-Toon cartoon titles. I can't believe I did most of it in Flash. I'm learning to do vector work. Who would of thought it? I came out better than I thought.
I made the web page on the fldulcimer site. I set up Dulcitoons 000 on Vimeo and embedded the video on the web page.
We're getting there. Now I have to do the ACME titles ... the Zen Doodle titles ... and the cartoon itself.
We're getting there.
Finally.
I redid the ihop commercial . It was basically the same material as I used the first time. But this time it was done tighter. The time bar is much slicker. I am learning.
I did the end titles. I reused and colored the black and white title holder and added the credits. It worked great.
I did the Dulci-Toon cartoon titles. I can't believe I did most of it in Flash. I'm learning to do vector work. Who would of thought it? I came out better than I thought.
I made the web page on the fldulcimer site. I set up Dulcitoons 000 on Vimeo and embedded the video on the web page.
We're getting there. Now I have to do the ACME titles ... the Zen Doodle titles ... and the cartoon itself.
We're getting there.
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