Yet again another Ulead Media Studio Pro Question

Okay im doing these instructions on this page... http://www.hiddenphantom.com/Tutorials/MSPGlow/MSPGlow.htm
now i do everything good up till the adding the color clip...i put the original clip in track Vb like it says..then i insert the color clip in the other track...wen i render it to source.avi it works cause its all black...but then wen i add the VP file in there, the whole clip is showing wen just the white core on the black background is supposed to show...i dont understand wat im doing wrong...can someone please help

 

Time now for my time saving 2 cents. I find that Adobe After Effects makes rotoscoping a lot easier and faster than Ulead (I also think the lightsaber in AE look better too).

Just my off the bone advice.

 

yea but this is makin me so mad that i wanna know wat im doing wrong here.

 

no doubt. Onward with your neverending quest for knowledge oh DarthChewie one.

 

did you copy your original clip and rename source.avi and then open source.avi in vp and then do the painting

 

no wat ur supposed to do is copy original..i did that...then open original in VP and paint it..i did that...then save it as .uvp file..did that...then open VE and put the original in there and then add a color clip and render it to source.avi..did that...i did everything right i just dont know wats goin on

 

no your not your supposed to copy it source.avi

thats the whole point read it this is because when you render it black (source.avi) then when you try to open the vp source it goes looking for that source clip so it finds it and its black. so all that shows up is the saber

mysuggestion is to make another copy and put it in the vb section then render the black orgginal,avi or whatever

 

wait a second..u lost me

 

here it is in nick's words
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Ahhh. No biggie. Step five is all about tricking MSP to do something that's not supposed to happen, so it can be difficult to understand.

First:
When you save your VP project in step 3. It doesn't actually save a new video that looks like your original with some white lines drawn on. Instead, the file contains information that basically says "Open this AVI file over here, and then add these extra (in this case white line) images on top"

Step 5 starts with the VP project closed.
At that point the original file name is changed. Since nothing is using that file at that moment, non of the programs notice.

Then MSP Editor is used to create a replacement video that is just black, and the new video is saved under the old name of your original. Again, since nothing has the VP project open, non of the programs notice anything has happened.

From that point forward, though, when you use the VP project, and it tells the computer "Open this AVI file over here..." it opens the new, all black video, then adds the white lines!

The cool thing is that MSP's overlay functions, used in later steps, can change the white to any color you want, and with blurring, make it look like it's a glowing lightsaber, all with a few clicks, instead of re-drawing the lines over and over.

Does that help?



what he is saying is when ou open your vp file it looks for the orginal because that is what your project was based on. and when it sees the black clip all that will come up is the white lines but dont worry about that just do what i told you before
mysuggestion is to make another copy and put it in the vb section then render the black orgginal,avi or whatever make



ok well here it goes.

copy the orginal name it new.avi then put that in vb then put a black color clip there
then render it orginal.avi or whatever the file was called when you opened it in vp then op the vp file and put it were it is supposed to be and o try and deactivate the color clip

 

yea so what exactly do i have to do though

 

read what i just put on my last post t the very last thing


here is what nick said another time-Just overwrite the existing source.jpg and leave it there.
This way, when you put the UVP file into your Editor project, MSP will go looking for source.jpg, it will find it, and draw you're white saber with only a black background (this is for pics not video it just is supposed to be .avi not .jpg but dont worry about this when you are working on it)



and if your having problems than email nick he is a real nice guy that can help you out alot but try what i put first

 

i am not getting what ur saying at all man...ur confusing me..lol...u didnt really explain what i have to do

 

yea i did what did you open the file
as in vp

 

the file i edited in VP is an MPG

 

am i rendering it wrong or something?

 

well thats your problem well what is it called ?.mpg i dont think ulead can render mpg and if it cant than you out of luck but it may i am to lazy to look

 

no i know it does mpgs cause this worked on the other computer...but my computer is too slow so im doin it on my brothers now...it worked fine on mine

 

but you are not anwesering my question so i cant help what was the file called when you origanlly opened it in vp ?.mpg

 

Original.mpg

 

ok that helps

well make a copy of original.mpg and name it new.jpg place that in vb then do the color clip then render that as orginal.mpg then try opening your vp project and see if it is all black

 

new.jpg???? why jpg..thats a picture file..i am doin mpg files..and why would i overwrite my original file?

 

aww stupid me new.mpg

 

jesus...now it wont even open the VP file!!! its saying the source video file is not correct: frame size must be 720 X 480: number of frames must be greater than 291....what is goin on!!!!!

 

it did that to me to i would suggest completely starting over if you have under 291 frames than it shouldnt take long

 

so i have to paint that stuff alllll over again?!?! dang...what does that thing mean with the frame size and frame numbers