alice-teacher Puzzle Trying To Combine Alice 3 and Adobe Premiere Pro

Mon Aug 29 12:18:45 EDT 2022

James,

Based on everyone's response, I believe you are correct that the issue is
on the Premiere Pro side of it.

Bill

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 9:52 AM Vanderhyde, James <vanderhyde at sxu.edu>
wrote:

> Bill, did you try using the face of a Box instead of a billboard? I
> thought maybe there was some difference in behavior between billboards and
> other objects, but I just tried it in Alice and nothing seems to be amiss.
>
> I don’t know how to use Premiere, but it seems to me the error is in that
> part of the process.
>
> I don’t think what you’re doing is unreasonable. It’s what the character
> interactions in the Myst series is based on. It’s also how they got
> Princess Leia into Rogue One.
>
> James
> —
>
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> On Aug 28, 2022, at 9:43 PM, Barnum, William via alice-teachers <
> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
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> Melanie and others,
>
> Most recently I placed a sphere in the center of the billboard, and used
> the camera commands pointAt(Sphere) and move(FORWARD)
>
> I've included a video clip to demonstrate. You can see the image, and then
> it switches to the video overlay.
>
> The video gets too large, too fast, but then catches up by the end.
>
> Don't pay any attention to what I'm rambling about. I was just using some
> old footage as a proof of concept.
>
> It's very possible that I'm using Adobe Premiere wrong or that I'm trying
> to do something that isn't reasonably doable.
>
> I appreciate all the feedback I've gotten so far, and this is just for
> fun, so not very important. 🙂
>
> https://youtu.be/N6IZg8oUVJM
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> Bill
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 8:44 PM Melanie Lam <melanielam at cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bill
>>
>> Which procedure are you using: Camera MoveTo OR MoveTowards?
>>
>> -Melanie
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 6:19 PM Barnum, William via alice-teachers <
>> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I'm working on a personal project for fun and have run into a roadblock.
>>>
>>> I don't think there is a simple solution, but if anyone knew, it would
>>> be people on this list. 🙂
>>>
>>> I'm zooming in on a "billboard" with a person's picture on it.
>>>
>>> I want to record the program running and use Premiere Pro to overlay the
>>> picture with a video of the person talking. As the billboard gets closer,
>>> the video of the person gets larger.
>>>
>>> The idea is to create the illusion that the person is inside the Alice 3
>>> world.
>>>
>>> My difficulty is that as the camera gets closer to the billboard, it
>>> doesn't increase the billboard size at a linear pace. It seems like it
>>> increases in size slowly but then speeds up as I get closer to it. I have
>>> animation style set to "begin and end abruptly".
>>>
>>> Is there a way that I can move the camera towards the billboard at a
>>> variable speed so that the billboard increases in size linearly?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide,
>>> Bill Barnum
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