PanoTools NG:
Re: new Cliplets application
Christian Bloch 2012-Mar-09 22:45:03
Hey Matt,
It appears these cliplets/cinemographs/animGIFs are very hip. This makes the round of the blogs today:
http://www.pbs.org/arts/exhibit/off-book-s2e1-animated-gifs/
Best,
Blochi
On Mar 8, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Matt Uyttendaele wrote:
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> Hi Christian,
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> Yes the basic loop finding from the Schodl paper is in there. When you select a 'Loop' element for a layer, look for the "Refine" button on the upper timeline and that lets you cycle through the top 10 loop candidates.
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> Not sure exactly what you mean by numbered in/out frames. The app currently doesn't allow for arbitrary re-order of video frames. It does create looping videos, and also what we call 'Mirror' videos which play forwards, then backwards, and repeat. I'd encourage you to watch the first two tutorials: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/cliplets/tutoria... which describe this pretty well.
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> -Matt
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> --- In #removed#, Christian Bloch <Blochi@...> wrote:
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> > That is really cool. Been looking for a good way for generating looped elements for a long time.
> > Does the app also support numbered frame sequences for in- and output?
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> > I have been looking for an implementation of this looping frame assembly method from this paper:
> > http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/75608/Schodl-SG2000.pdf
> > http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/projects/videotexture/
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> > Did that go in there?
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> > Best,
> > Christian
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> > On Mar 8, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Matt Uyttendaele wrote:
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> > > Hello,
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> > > This is a bit off topic but there is a stitching aspect, so thought I would share. We were inspired by the many recent Cinemagraphs on these and other sites:
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> > > http://www.cinemagra.ph/
> > > http://cinemagraphs.com/
> > > http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/
> > > and the Bing homepage animated backgrounds.
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> > > So we mixed up the Image Composite Editor code a bit and produced a simple new app that lets users create these. If you're interested, download it out from: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/cliplets/
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