Video Output

[vazin]

Here i have combined two Alice Worlds and superimposed on a 2D Scenery to create a single Video. I have used simple tools. If anyone interested to know how I have done this, I can explain. Atached the output of the Video. Quality of Video can always be improved

Please unzip the file using zip/rar and then open in Windows Media Player. . .

Also I have enclosed the files that I have used (2 alice wrolds and once JPG file)

Cheers

[JustasM]

Wow, that is indeed impressive! You might be the first person to have thought of this :]
I would be interested in hearing how you accomplished this.

[vazin]

Wow, that is indeed impressive! You might be the first person to have thought of this :]
I would be interested in hearing how you accomplished this.

Well, I am not the first person who has thought of it. Dick Baldwin's posting earlier made me think about this. Refer the following URL. Very elegant

http://www.austincc.edu/baldwin/MediaCompMovies/frog.avi
http://www.austincc.edu/baldwin/MediaCompMovies/TheBeachMovie.avi


Cheers

[JustasM]

Well, I am not the first person who has thought of it. Dick Baldwin's posting earlier made me think about this. Refer the following URL. Very elegant

http://www.austincc.edu/baldwin/MediaCompMovies/frog.avi
http://www.austincc.edu/baldwin/MediaCompMovies/TheBeachMovie.avi


Cheers

Thanks for the heads-up!
Those are worth a watch indeed, the Beach Movie is very impressive :]
Does Dick Baldwin offer an explanation of how he did these?

[DickBaldwin]

Thanks for the heads-up!
Those are worth a watch indeed, the Beach Movie is very impressive :]
Does Dick Baldwin offer an explanation of how he did these?

I hope that my original post made it clear that I didn't create these projects. They were created at Georgia Tech University under the auspices of Barb Ericson. However, I am using her textbook in two Java courses that I teach and if you review her textbook, you should be able to do them yourself.

[DrJim]

I've mentioned it before - but the postings may be hard to find. If you'd like to try something like this, a great, free program to start with is Wax, which you can download from http://debugmode.com/wax/. (Unfortunately I don't know of anything similar for a Mac - but anything that will support a chroma mix function will work.)

You can have your Alice figures move against a solid color background (typically blue or green, depending on your subject - you want the maximum contrast in color) and then overlay that onto a background (which can be another movie) using the chroma mix function in Wax. I find it works best with uncompressed .avi video (which you can get as an output from Movie Maker) - even though that makes large (!) files. Create your video in small pieces, convert them to .wmv or some other compressed format, and then combine them in Movie Maker.

[DrJim]

I just started a thread ( http://www.alice.org/community/showthread.php?p=9331&posted=1#post9331 ) with a couple of postings that explore the mix of 2D and 3D material in Alice. For people who enjoyed the examples earlier in this thread, those postings may be of interest.