Re: Animation and video editing help wanted!

In article <Dave-38F4EB.18511127042007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave
<Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <270420071526063560%nospam@xxxxxxxxx>,
Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip> (with added chuckle)

A colleague has re-created some animations
(see <http://www.mathsfilms.co.uk/> which are sharp. In my so far brief
conversations with him I reckoned
that that was a good way to go especially for network delivery in
comparison with the huge overhead of video file sizes. He expressed some
wariness with the learning curve aspects, however!
A quick look at the pentamino source shows he too used Flash. It is
snapping out vector animations on the web, and within certain annoying
constraints, can produce video for DVD etc. The annoying part is that
you need everything on the main timeline for export to video. You are
banned from individual objects each with their own timeline. (movie
clips in Flash's idiosyncratic and confusing terminology). That would
be a major bummer for production of elegant mathematical animations.
Once you get to the video editing stage, the next answers depend on
required production values. For professional results, use professional
tools. Final Cut Pro, Motion and perhaps Shake, with added DVD Studio
Pro (for small values of "pro"). And another few months of your life.

but presumably, good fun!
Restrain yourself! You have already claimed each presenter brings
his/her non-PFI tie. You don't need to go there.

For classroom and 'homework' use. I think you are on the right track
using graphing tools you know, SnapZ, iMovie and iDVD. Working in DV is
fine for stuff to be shown on standard telly. Watch out for non-square
pixels in the process. It is all too easy to get ellipses for circles
in various stages of such a project. I have done the animated graphs in
Flash, and added icing with the toys in Final Cut. Good fun, but time
consuming.

My intention certainly is to start with what I know well (geometry
software tools), and then to use what is available to me!
OK, I can see you are now torn between Flash and using SnapZ to kludge
your existing investment in other things.

I'd play with both. Flash will be more rewarding for the maths teacher
in you than messing about with video editors. The world has enough
pony-tailed advertising men, SnapZ will deliver the quick and dirty
results.

Let us know how you get on. It will be *ace* fun!

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