A couple of days ago I posted a technique for a studio transition. I tried to explain what I had noe - and helped Beth with a couple of finer points. In doing so I uploaded a couple of screenshots to show what I'd done. What I thought was - this would be easier if I could simply give everyone the file. Then they'd be able to see what I'd done. But of course I can't do that because nobody has the same videos or even the same directory structure.
So - how about we create a "standard" for demonstrating techniques? This would be a small known set of files in a known location so a .prel file that I upload could be downloaded and viewed by anyone.
I would suggest we use the free files available here with alternate names as follows:
Satin_Motion.avi > clip1.avi
Blue_Solar.avi > clip2.avi
Blue_Kaleidascope.avi > clip 3.avi
Motion_1.avi > clip4.avi
That should be enough for most purposes. All are the same size, length & frame rate. If you don't like the colours you can always change them!
I would then suggest we put them in a directory "c:\Video" - I know that this is the C drive and lots of people don't like using that - but at least everyone has one!
This should allow any .prel file to work with these files. To this effect I have created the structure and uploaded a .prel file (zipped) to
http://www.muvipix.com/cpg/displayimage.php?pos=-736
for people to have a go with.
Notes - we're going to have to include the version of PE that we used. This also won't work for V1 users as the titles are separate from the file.
Nice to haves - a zip file containing all the videos above named appropriately to be downloaded in one go?
A couple of Pictures (called pic1.jpg and pic2.jpg)
What does everyone think?
Chris.