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Laukev7:
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/13/0048200.shtml?tid=152&tid=218

An ACTUAL innovation from Microsoft! Someone call the media!

skyman8081:
wow... that was a lot cooler than I thought it would be.

I thought it would be something like photoshop's "poster edges" filter applied to every frame of a video.

though that would also kick major arse.

bedouin:
Yeah, it looks cool.  Check this out though.  It looks like a large portion of the work came from a few Asian Ph.D. students.

I believe they should get more credit for this than Microsoft.  It's kind of like crediting a university with a great scientific discovery, just because one of its professors/graduate students attended it.

Prepare for cheap knock-off's of Ah-Ha's "Take on Me" video made by 15 year olds, along with unnecessary use of it in videos by friends/family that are so-not-interesting.  Here's another effect to add to the tacky home movie maker's tool belt..  Sometimes less is more.

Then again, I'm not sure this can be simplified enough to be a standard effect in introductory video editing apps like iMovie or (shudder) Microsoft's Movie Maker.

bedouin:

quote:Originally posted by Sauron / B0B:
I thought it would be something like photoshop's "poster edges" filter applied to every frame of a video.
--- End quote ---


I'm pretty sure you can do that with After Effects.

BTW: one of my favorite cartoons, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is done entirely with Photoshop, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro.  They talk about it a bit on the DVD commentaries.

skyman8081:
personally, I think consumer level video apps should be restricted to dissolves and wipes.

Seeing as anything else just gets HORRIBLY abused and look silly anyway..

I only ever use dissolve and wipes anyway, with the occasional irising.

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