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Re: Studios Broken . . . help?
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Fri, 15 Dec 2000 00:48:25 GMT
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This whole discussion, plus some work I've been doing recently to produce a
video
that shows what my FLL team has been up to over the last 12 weeks, leads me
to
ask a question (note: I don't own studios, and I run Win2K, so if I did own
it, only
my daughter would be using it on her PC with Win98).
What, exactly, does the LEGO Studios software *do*? Obviously, you've got a
cheap USB video cam with some kind of Video for Windows video capture --
cool,
but what I'm wondering about is the editing software, since, obviously for
stop-motion
animation that's really the key. So, is there anything *special* about the
LEGO
Studios software that makes it particularly well suited for this
application? Does it
have some kind of way-easy interface? Is there anything that is locking it
down to
the LEGO camera? Is there any reason you couldn't take joe-random-avi file
and use it from within LEGO Studio, or, flipping the question, is there any
reason
you cannot use the video camera (which is really just a LogiTech or Pinnacle
product anyway) to capture AVI and then use other editing software like
ULead's
VideoStudio (PC) or Adobe Premiere LE (Mac) or any of the other dozen or so
inexpensive video edit software packages to do the stop-motion stitching?
In other words, can we blow off LEGO's software, use the Studio's sets,
lighting,
maybe even the camera, and effectively use LEGO Studio on Win2K?
Wondering...
-Peter
Coach, FLL Team #1096: The Unibots
#2 in California, Rookie All Stars!
"Ben Gatrelle" <ben@yellowcastle.spam.com> wrote in message
news:G5J24p.Bv6@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.dear-lego, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > In lugnet.dear-lego, Jason Rowoldt writes:
> > <snip>
> > > I have Windows Me with DirectX 8, 10 GB free HD, 128 MB ram, etc. • Anyone
> > > having problems exporting/rendering movies?
> >
> > Well I think this might be your problem. If you look at the box you will • see
> > that LEGO, in their infinite wisdom, have made LEGO studios only • compatible
> > with Windows 98. Pretty silly I think and they will probably have quite • a few
>
> I have Windows ME. I originally had Win2000 which the catalog said they • also
> supported. Tech support assured me it would not work in Win 2000, only in
> Win98SE and Win ME. I switched to Win ME and it loaded fine and I can use
> it. I have not tried to complie any movie yet however. I'm not sure what
> support # you are calling but try calling the Mindstorm help number. They
> transfered me to the right people who gave me the correct info right away
> when I was trying to originally load the software.
>
> BEN GATRELLE <member:339>
> (remove the spam dot from the yellowcastle to reply)
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