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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (8468)	7/21/2004 5:46:21 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21667

Thomas, el p., rose, Frank and others, Thank you for the kind comments and thanks for watching. It's quite a challenge of balance to make video material interesting for the web. There are so many trade-offs in both the art and the technology (or perhaps better stated as art vs. technology). One could easily run amok to their hearts' content but end up with a piece that is undeliverable (i.e. 200mb) for this medium. Aside from that hurdle, one has to consider less-than-obvious matters like "what time length of a fade will the compression support without ugly artifacts, yet fits artistic intention?", or "how do I fit shape A and colour B into shape X and colour Z to get just the essential heart of shot, do it in 3/15ths of a second, make sure the rendering engine doesn't skip a frame, why are these colours bleeding in frame 849 — and make it interesting to the audience?" On a big theatre or broadcast screen and equally sized budget, it's easy to solve: "throw more money at it and the technology is there anyway". The web isn't really yet ready for this so "fake it, short-cut and trick it to arrive at a reasonable and deliverable facsimile..." Probably the most fun I've ever had, though. It's the masochistic "pain in the ass = fun, solving how to beat it" thing. * After Effects is Photoshop put into motion. * (some design gurus even throw stuff into AE for non-motion processing before taking it into PShop, just for simple still images. Certain processing engines were built better, by the original pre-Adobe-AE company, "COSA")