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I was looking at Valery's amazing hand held MP3 player or whatever.
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...t=22693&page=2
I just wanted to know how this part was made. It's an ellipse but it's top is cut off. When I tried to emulate it, it ended up as other than an ellipse.
Also how do you make one side not feathered? I tried grouping it but this didn't work either.
Hopefully, once you give me the answer for this, I will easily be able to emulate the whole of his artwork.
Anas
Hi Anas,
If you look at the transparency for that ellipse you will see that Valery used linear and the 100% transparency is where the unfeathered line appears.
Another way to do this is to use a shape, such as a rectangle, to trim off the end of the ellipse. Then rotate the ellipse and add feathering with the feathering slider at the top right area of the Infobar.
Gary
What I do is group it, clone it, feather the bottom one, then make the top one have a fading transparency (in the appropriate areas) so those bits are unfeathered. You may need some playing around to get this right.Quote:
Originally Posted by salaam
Alex
Video:Quote:
Originally Posted by salaam
Thanks Soquili and Gary,
So simple.
Alex, I don't know how you get a similar effect with this method, it didn't work for me, what did I do wrong? Unless I make the top ellipse white.Quote:
Originally Posted by abligh
Thanks Xhris. I couldn't hear anything using Windows Media Player. I went to Youtube and the volume was OK there.
Anas
youtube? sound? i recorded it without sound and only posted it on talkgraphics. I might make a dedicated YouTube Xara account at some point to ease the Talkgraphics bandwidth issues.Quote:
Originally Posted by salaam
Anas
Actually now that I look at the example you posted I would create a bitmap copy, true color + alpha, of the feathered ellipse, then use the rectangle to cut off the top.
Gary
Like the attached.Quote:
Originally Posted by salaam
Alex
I understand now Alex. You didn't mention chopping the top off first. I wanted the shape to keep the 'ellipse' like Valery's and Soquili's. Neat trick anyway.
Sorry Chris, I couldn't make anything out from your video, so I assumed I must have been missing some sound. Your video lasts for 27 seconds, the first 18 seconds shows only a blank page and an arrow, then a close-up, then the 2 main shapes, and that's it 3 frames?
Anas
hmm, strange. Does this occur for anyone else?Quote:
Originally Posted by salaam
i got the same thing as salaam
Chris,
If I open it in Windows Media Player it has only 4 to 6 frames. If I open it with Nero it plays as expected.
Well that makes no sense? I'll try and figure it out later and re-post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
EDIT: ok, the problem is that i forget other people don't necessarily have super powerful computers. I recorded it in a very high frame rate. Lesser capable computers require more processing power than is available to display the video, and thus lose most of the frames. I will redo later more conservatively. In fact, i'll YouTube it.
Call me old fashioned but what is wrong with one or two simple pictures?
Ludite
Because pictures are less fun. :-) A picture is worth a thousand words, and a video is worth a thousand pictures. Teething trouble over now (hopefully). Video embedded below or here:Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G-DFvoGAk-o"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G-DFvoGAk-o" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="350"></embed></object>
Do these boards not allow embedded youtube objects? If not, could i make a call for this to be allowed?
EDIT: hopefully better now. Don't fancy doing commentary yet though.
:confused: I'm quite sure the rest of us are not using Vic20s. You'd be surprised. I don't think that is the problem. There is actually more than the first several frames... if you wait it out. But there isn't anymore until towards the end... nothing in the middle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xhris
Very good Xhris. I understood the first example but the second???
The YouTube screen is very small as it is and you have used just half of it. Also it is very fast with no commentary.
Anas
I just watched it on YouTube also. Very nice!!! Your voice would add a lot.
Gary, get that tippex out or sort out that typewriter - I think you are most likely a Luddite..Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
;-)
Yes, YouTube imposes its own optimisations, including reducing the resolution of the video. I've re-recorded it in a lower resolution.Quote:
Originally Posted by salaam
I don't fancy narrating yet. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by -=Drifter=-
Another way using ClipView
Brilliant Chuck. I rest my case. :)
Gary
Aye, I'm all for simple efficient pictures usually, but there are occasions where videos are more fun and clearer in describing a problem (when done well). Having more time now to concentrate on the problem than the method, I've redone it (again) here. Appropriately done movies have value as Xara themselves have shown. I personally find them more fun at the moment as the novelty hasn't yet worn off.Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
I do agree with Gary in that I hate technology being used for the sake of using technology. For example using a PC to print off a simple letter when it would have been 10 times as quick and just as good to write it by hand.
At the same time I generally have problems with manuals and tutorials due to my dyslexic etc. talents. Videos are more suitable as they give me less information overload in one area, although I don't think a video was neccessary for this ellipse problem.
Anas
I agree, but at least the foundations are laid for cases when it is good to use a video.Quote:
Originally Posted by salaam
Xhris - this one is MUCH BETTER! It is very clear what you are showing with the text there. Still... a voice describing what you're doing is the best. I am thinking you are too shy to use your voice - as I am also. So..... go find some woman with a really great voice and have her do it!!! Yeah!!! :D
Dyslexics of the world, untie! (Dyslexic humor). I suspect that many of us in this conference (I for sure am one) are dyslexic.Quote:
At the same time I generally have problems with manuals and tutorials due to my dyslexic etc. talents. Videos are more suitable as they give me less information overload in one area, although I don't think a video was neccessary for this ellipse problem.
Gray :)
OK, I'm not dyslexic, but here's my favourite joke.
"Did you hear about the Dyslexic devil worshipper that sold his soul to Santa?"
Gary, rap my knuckles about the OT post, but I have a serious OT question.
My wife reprimands me if I tell the joke with a Dyslexic person present. Personally I don't see that telling such a joke is disrespectful (certainly not intended to be), just an acknowledgement of the condition. Would some/many Dyslexics be offended?
Paul
I don't get it?
Kidding.
I wasn't offended. Dyslexia is not fatal, as far as I know. It just is a cognition thing. Maybe it's the reason I can't do my own tutorials? Or maybe it's the reason that almost every time I say something is in the upper left corner of the screen that in fact it is in the upper right corner of the screen. Or when I dial a phone number and it turns out I copied it down incorrectly, if I just transpose 2 of the digits, it becomes the right phone number?
OK This is off topic and we have all been warned. :)
Gary