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Circo:
He sure put a lot of work into that demo video, pretty site.  That is not a human voice, but nicer than the one in windows, I wonder what he used for the voiceover.
squirrellydw:

--- Quote from: shock_ on February 07, 2007, 11:33:46 pm ---I noticed from the demo video that the snaps are reflected in the shiny layout.  Got me thinking about that applesque MaLa skin I did recently.  Theoretically at least, one could write a script that rendered reflected versions of all the snaps in a directory, which could then become another definable and built into the layout.  Can't see it working for videos though - although that would look shweet.

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Please, please...If you could do that with the snaps and video it would be perfact.
shock_:
note that I said "one", not "I" :)  I know nnuzzing! :)  In any case, we're talking about a whole new set of snaps, so would make sense to distribute the script and instructions for using it.  I am not a programmer (well, not since I was about 12 anyway) but I know/think it's possible.

johnperkins21 is probably right too, but I expect the process for videos would mean applying the operation to each frame of each video, then recompiling in the original or a compatible codec, and would almost certainly be quite lossy as a result.  I guess that's probably okay (the loss) since the desired output is actually a blurry reflection anyway - but it seems like a lot of effort. 

The videos would need to be started syncronised exactly too, which might add complexity to the front end calling the renderer - or be just plain impractical.  So to do it, you'd do the entire thing in realtime via software - which again is painful.  Especially for me :)
jcrouse:

--- Quote from: johnperkins21 on February 08, 2007, 01:13:12 am ---Couldn't you just rotate the video 180 degrees

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I believe it would need "mirrored" if your talking about some sort of reflection appearance, although I have looked at the video yet.

John
johnperkins21:

--- Quote from: shock_ on February 08, 2007, 05:49:51 am ---note that I said "one", not "I" :)  I know nnuzzing! :)  In any case, we're talking about a whole new set of snaps, so would make sense to distribute the script and instructions for using it.  I am not a programmer (well, not since I was about 12 anyway) but I know/think it's possible.

johnperkins21 is probably right too, but I expect the process for videos would mean applying the operation to each frame of each video, then recompiling in the original or a compatible codec, and would almost certainly be quite lossy as a result.  I guess that's probably okay (the loss) since the desired output is actually a blurry reflection anyway - but it seems like a lot of effort. 

The videos would need to be started syncronised exactly too, which might add complexity to the front end calling the renderer - or be just plain impractical.  So to do it, you'd do the entire thing in realtime via software - which again is painful.  Especially for me :)

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I think you've misunderstood my suggestion. What I'm saying is to put two copies of the same video on the front end, only the one below is rotated 180 degrees (and flipped). Then apply a mask over the entire front end that blocks the very bottom portion of the bottom rotated video, and gradually allows for more transparency. I've not designed a skin for a front end, so I'm not sure how it would work, but that seems to me to be the easiest way to do it.

I'm not suggesting creating separate videos for the reflection, just two copies of the same video playing on top of each other. Synch wouldn't be a problem because once it's loaded in the FE both would start playing at the same time.

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