anyone see that cool hp commercial with the empty picture frames?

[Eihli]

i didn't really think there was anything they could do with cameras and computers that would impress me, i'm sure it's simpler than i think, but i'm kinda curious as to how they did that.

[GuyOnTilt]

Google is hard.

GoT

[Pocket Trips]

not sure how they did it either but i love the song in that commercial

[NoTalent]

Isn't that a cure song?

[Pocket Trips]

not the one I'm thinking of ... but if the cure was gonna have a song used in a photography-related commercial it would be pictures of you... the ad I am thinking of is the one with the picture frames that pauses every second or 2 and the thing it freezes on gets passed to the next person

[gorie]

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Isn't that a cure song?

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it is "picture book" by the kinks.

[Pocket Trips]

wow cool didn't even recognize ray davies voice.. i will have to get that song asap

thanks gorie

[Dominic]

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i didn't really think there was anything they could do with cameras and computers that would impress me, i'm sure it's simpler than i think, but i'm kinda curious as to how they did that.

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I used to be a film and video editor...just by watching those commercials, it doesn't look at all difficult to duplicate, but it is an amazing effect.

Basically, they're taking empty picture frames - all there is is a white border - nothing inside - and passing it around, moving it through space, etc.

Whatever picture they want to freeze there, is one they just take and place in the picture frame. They get it to move with the picture frame by a simple graphics compositing tool called "key-frames." Basically, it's graphic points in 2D space that represent the picture and move it to wherever you want it.

For those of you who have no idea what key frames are or are not a compositor, everything I said is probably gibberish. Maybe someone else can explain it better than I did...

It is fairly simple, though.

[Oski]

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i didn't really think there was anything they could do with cameras and computers that would impress me, i'm sure it's simpler than i think, but i'm kinda curious as to how they did that.

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I used to be a film and video editor... They get it to move with the picture frame by a simple graphics compositing tool called "key-frames."

It is fairly simple.

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That might help.

[thirddan]

im a vfx artist...basically the four points of the picture frame are tracked so that their locations on screen are held separately...then those points are used to pin the corners of the images inside the frame to the points on the actual frame...so a duplicate of the background (what will be the picture) is "tracked" into the frame using the data points...

hopefully that makes sense...

[Dominic]

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im a vfx artist...basically the four points of the picture frame are tracked so that their locations on screen are held separately...then those points are used to pin the corners of the images inside the frame to the points on the actual frame...so a duplicate of the background (what will be the picture) is "tracked" into the frame using the data points...

hopefully that makes sense...

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LOL...yeah, what HE said! Excellent explanation.