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Re: Suggestions on methods to display sonograms as movies?

Subject: Re: Suggestions on methods to display sonograms as movies?
From: "Rob Danielson" danielson_audio
Date: Thu May 13, 2010 9:02 pm ((PDT))
At 9:06 PM -0400 5/13/10, Marc Myers wrote:
>  I'm working on a project where I would like include both audio and
>its sonogram as a video of some sort. I've been using Acousmographe
>and it works well in some regards. However the only output is a SWF
>file and I must convert this to another format. The conversions have
>not always gone well. Anyone have any luck? Obviously, in any decent
>sound editing program one can see a sonogram as one listens to the
>file, but I'm interested in this being a freestanding movie. I've
>also tried screen capture utilities but consistency in the size of
>the image is also important and this is not always easy to do with
>screen capture.
>Marc Myers

Hi Marc--
Building the movie up from individual frames in QT Pro or After
Effects can give you a lot more control.  What kind of sonogram? Can
you give us a specific graphic example?

I have trouble getting iShowU to be responsive enough if there's much
movement. I optimize it to handle just the image capture. Then I use
QT Pro to extract the frames from the IShowU capture as .psd
(photoshop) format.  I batch crop/adjust the stills in Photoshop and
load the sequence into AfterImage or back into QT Pro.  The original
sound can be added and sync'd at this point. From this build you can
export a variety of formats/sizes from small/rapidly loading web
versions to the highest quality your computer can play without
dropping frames. Rob D.
--










"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause


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