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Hey Ken , thank you for fixing that glitch with the clickables for the DL page of sequences , BUT .... Sorry to say , but you forgot the second page , where the DL actually occurs ...
( I DO appreciate you fixing this . Thanks )
Hey Ken , thank you for fixing that glitch with the clickables for the DL page of sequences , BUT .... Sorry to say , but you forgot the second page , where the DL actually occurs ...
( I DO appreciate you fixing this . Thanks )
Hey Ken , thank you for fixing that glitch with the clickables for the DL page of sequences , BUT .... Sorry to say , but you forgot the second page , where the DL actually occurs ...
( I DO appreciate you fixing this . Thanks )
Hey Ken , thank you for fixing that glitch with the clickables for the DL page of sequences , BUT .... Sorry to say , but you forgot the second page , where the DL actually occurs ...
( I DO appreciate you fixing this . Thanks )
Hey Ken , thank you for fixing that glitch with the clickables for the DL page of sequences , BUT .... Sorry to say , but you forgot the second page , where the DL actually occurs ...
( I DO appreciate you fixing this . Thanks )
Hey I thought I would update you guys on idea of using "Bates" style over projection. Well here is a rought draft template of my projection area. Since my yard is littered with palm trees I cannot over-project/overscan the entire house without putting shadows , but not only that but at 1024 X 768, I dont want to degrade the video quality/resolution as much as would be necessary to overscan the entire 70 ft wide house structure and still retain the 8 ft TV screen as I have done in the past.
By pulling the projector 50 ft back or the limit of my VGA cord which runs all the way into the house, the 8 ft screen now projects 50 ft wide on the house, 40 ft tall, no idea what the diagonal size is but it would be comparable to what you see in a movie theatre. I have some over scan up into sky/tree canopy and grass at bottom of template. As the template shows, my intent is to mostly use the "video screen" 100% of the time and the overscan area occassionally for special effects most of the time blanking out the chasing lights over the garage and over project the entire garage portion.
By using picture in picture and chromakey properties of various video creation software I am going to attempt to overlay many many separate videos into one. Traditional music videos for songs play in the small square dedicated to the video screen. Eye candy effects can be PIP'd into the roof line and given a "squash" effect because the roof slopes away, I can compensate by squashing the video in this area downward to make it look proper tilt persective from the ground in front of house, the sky/tree canopy part of the template will likely have bright "falling snow" projections thru most of the show (why waste this little bit of overscan?). Face of house... well occassionally I thought the 8 ft video screen, at times OFF goes the chasing lights on the house and the video screen can occupy the entire face wall of garage or even blow up to cover the roof with tilt perspective compensation on the roof.
Other gimics I want to use with the video overscan is to "emulate" a bright green laser across the house, moving head yoke spot light circles animating across the face of the house and perhaps otherthings I havent thought of yet. The part of the template that says animated text area, this is for flipping, tumbling 3D texts stating the name of the song and perhaps other animating words, I plan to set up a wide 2 X 18 strip of white coroplast to allow the projector to project these words onto them in front of my planter. The part of template that says DOOR... well I have a storm door, we plan to tape white construction paper on it from behind allowing me to have the appearance of Santa Claus opening the front door and looking out occassionally or on other occassions a dancing Santa Claus, Dancing Snowman, etc...
Havent gotten down to making a Snowman in which I can project onto the face of it, all mouth and eye movements giving the snowman life similar to "Bates Haunted Yard" and his singing pumpkins... so needless to be said I am not finalizing videos for next year, this is in the exploratory stage but so far everything is coming out roses and working GREAT! Resolution on the old video screen region which is now PIP'd into about 15% of the video space is looking pretty decent. The Template is only used to set up my Picture in picture sizes and positions within the screen space, then once done it gets replaced with a Black JPG and movie finalized.
Ken W. Good wrote: This is probably a good time to summarize our rights and obligations regarding videos. The purpose of this site is to help people with ideas regarding the incorporation of video into their Christmas display. Any and all videos on this site can be downloaded by anyone. However, the right to use the video comes from a license. For residential purposes, any time you purchase a video you have a license to play it in your home. This would include the right to play it in your Christmas display. Now if you have commercial display, all the rules change and you have to purchase a license to play it. So if you see a video here that you like and you already own the movie that it came from then you are fine. If not, then you should purchase it.
We have some videos that were designed by other PC members, and they have agreed to allow anyone to use it.
Personally, I like family slide shows the best, but all the creative people here have many creative ideas which is why we started the site.
This has been something I have thought of since video popped up as a new option for us. Well MP3's are an obvious plagerism item for everyone with Christmas lights. Myself I used some videos, some of which I got outright permission from the musical artist to use their Youtube music video, but for other things, I used some various video footage from all kinds of sources. I'd really like to have my display carry my own art work in video as it does with lights themselves, so the borrowing of video clips was the only way to take the first year's step into synchronous video.
I am starting to develop and find techiques for custom video content creation and I can gear things closer to Christmas and I'll be happy to share a great deal of stuff that I create, I just had reservations about uploading other people's property. I'll try to generate a bunch of custom motion clips in coming months that I created and own the copyrights so my stuff will be all legal beagle.
I am not good with raster 3d graphics but if you have any concepts that work with vector graphics, I can function beautifully with these on Anime Studio because, well they work identically to what we used in the Amiga years ago and I am already very familiar with how they operate (wireframes coated with guroude shaded fills). If anyone needs 3D text or logos that sways, tumbles, flips, etc I got that mastered. (Name of song or your display in 3D HD-MPEG2 format. I can put them on alpha, green or blue backgrounds so you can chromakey/composite it over your other video or backdrops.
Last edited on Thursday March 13th, 2008 10:09 am by Joseph Ayo
I have updated the video coop website because some people were having trouble with certain links. I have also added another video called "What a Wonderful World." I planned on doing this video a while back but could figure out how to take out parts of the soundtrack. I replaced the song file to get rid of the laughter and applause, but certain parts were off. Well, I finally figured it out. I think this is a great video. You can see it at http://www.ChristmasAtTheGoods.com/videocoop. It is on the second index page. The guy who did the shadow images is named Raymond Crowe and he is an illusionist from Australia. Let me know if you agree that this is a cool video.
Ken
Last edited on Sunday April 13th, 2008 11:37 pm by Ken W. Good
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