Sam Druckerman

[Matt Uhry]

Curves on all of the information are already available? That's great. Jim said several times there will be more ways to blend the frames. But curves were a big one, glad that's in the bag.

I don't think a lot of people use it or even know about it, but sometimes I really enjoy the "Highlights & Shadows" image adjustment in PS. I bet that can spawn some good ideas for a new tool.

It's curves on the combined image, you choose the degree of combination. Not yet curves on both tracks - but you can do that in AFX if you like.

Does that make sense ?

Matt Uhry
www.mattuhry.com

[Lee Saxon]

I don't think a lot of people take it seriously or even know about it, but sometimes I really enjoy the "Highlights & Shadows" image adjustment in PS.

Only if it's used verrrrrrrrrrrry conservatively, which is very often isn't.

[Bruce Allen]

You may be right... Those were some late nights when we posted this stuff. Bruce ? you want to weigh in ?

Matt Uhry
www.mattuhry.com

Matt - that was my fault for misinforming you. Yes it was late and I was confused - but I am also often confused during the middle of the day so it's not saying much.

It happens the opposite way to the bike trails in Akira. So yes, it does the short exposure first, then the long one. Would be fun if we could swap it and see which one looks better.

Will try to post some HQ versions of your footage this evening in order to recompense.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[jake blackstone]

Foundry been working on reducing visual differences between A and X frames for a while. They have wealth of knowledge on motion estimation and they are planning to use a lot of it for that very purpose. I had been told, that the result,s so far, are quite impressive. Not that the strobing of X is that noticeable right now.