For some years now, I have admired the graphics used on Sky during football matches.
The way that graphics zoom out of nowhere, open up other graphics and then give info to the matchday viewer.
Particularly, I have been intrigued by the logos that appear and spin, eg to-day with the Man U and Liverpool logos that revolve thru' 360 degrees.
The latest edition of What PC has a demo/evaluation of Xara3D which enables creation of such spinning logos that can be saved as AVI files that could subsequently be imported in Prem 6.
To get the graphic into Xara, it has to be imported as a Windows Metafile, but que? FAQ's don't help me and none of my other software can save files as .wmf
Help - or is there better software on the market to achieve my aims, ie creation of spinning logos?
Thanks, Alan Wells
Hi Alan,
A Windows metafile consists of a series of Windows graphics vector instructions which are intended to reproduce the original image. Metafiles offer superior resolution and scaling relative to bitmaps, and are usually appreciably smaller in size.
Powerpoint is probably the most obvious app that will sava as WMF, but there are others, possibly illustrator....
Tim
Alan
Lotus Freelance can save as WMF.
You can certainly make logos spin through 360 degrees if you wish, but often it is enough to show only half the rotation if it is about a vertical or horizontal axis so that the reversed image never shows. The eye accepts the artificiality very readily and it has the added advantage of halving the size of file if you make the result into an animated GIF for the web.
In Premiere such spins are easily made using the camera view filter (on one layer of a composite image if only part of the logo is to be animated), but it is slightly easier to reverse the rotated image in PhotoShop (or wherever) so that you can use 90-270 for the half rotation in Premiere. Otherwise you need to split the clip to give 90-0 and 360-270 since the camera view filter doesn't allow more than 360 degrees of rotation. It is also quite important that the overall image size is in the correct aspect ratio for the output device (eg 4:3 for TV).
[This message has been edited by David J (edited 13 August 2001).]
HI Allan I am new to this so the fact that I can achive this with a program called Micrografix simply 3 d means it seems to work.regards pete.
Thank you, David J - sheer genius with your suggestion.
As a committed (my wife says I should be) hobbiest, I have always tried to stay as up-to-date as possible on my video-editing software.
When I first got into Premiere thru' Pinnacle DC30+, I was gob-smacked at some of the things it could do - I always wanted more, and at Bob C's suggestion, I bought Antony Bolante's book (Prem 5.1) Taught me a lot!
Now that I have DV500+ with Prem 6, I am amazed at every use of the products that I learn about, but where is the definitive guide as to all the features of Premiere, in particular ver.6?
Sorry that I haven't responded sooner, it has taken me about 4 or 5 hours to understand what you were telling me!
Thanks again, DJ