Lots of shots on the screen at the same time

fly37 · Member Joined: 26 Nov 2003

Hi,

I would really like to find an editing tool that enables me to take lots of shots and put them onto the screen at the same time.

The closest thing I have seen to this is the screen saver on the Apple TV that makes a show of .jpg’s. Here is a low res video of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOqTl2mNqcM

That shown on a big HD screen is breathtaking, like an art installation in an up market gallery.

Unfortunately it is only for still pictures and it is a screen saver, rather than something I can feed a bunch of clips into and get out an HD file.

I am realistic enough to know I am not going to get something that does exactly the same as that, but I am happy to simply use it as inspiration and direction. Is there anything out there that will let me take a bunch of SD clips and create a gloriously busy and exciting HD movie?

Let me know what you think. I am open to ideas outside of the box.

guns1inger · So Very Tired Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Location: Miskatonic U

You might look at some of the VJ programs if you want something is near real-time or want to do it live.

Otherwise it is easily, if manually, done in Vegas using Track Motion, or in Avisynth using stackhorizonatl and stackvertical. Any compositing program, such as AE or Combustion can also do it.

I don't know of any that automate it, but there is probably a plugin for AE or Premiere to do it if you search hard enough.
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Bjs · RoadKill Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Location: Australia

Blender would be my choice when it comes to any form of 3d rotation, thou for video clips there's a lot of work involved.

Wax2 can also do this and just requires time and patience, lots of patience.

fly37 · Member Joined: 26 Nov 2003

Thanks for taking the time to reply guys, much appreciated

Looks like all of the solutions require a serious lot of hand crafting. If I have understood this correctly (feel free to tell me I have not) I would need to manual plot the movement of each clip cross the screen for each frame, working out my own calculations for clips moving at different speeds. Because I have many images and I want them to move across the screen at difference speeds, I could see this taking man-months of hard graft.

Shame, life is too short to be doing this, unless someone invents a more automate solution (or someone on the forum knows better).

Thanks again.