I Hope Adobe is Able to Bring This to Fruition

Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.

I plan on writing more about this video this week.


As promised I am sitting here and writing more on this promising technology that Adobe is hoping to have out in the hopefully near future. There are a few ways that one could make this work in Paint Shop Pro now albeit not as great as they are making it work here in the video. The point to point manipulation is similar to the mesh warp tool in Paint Shop Pro. Using different points in the mesh grid you can manipulate features of a face together. If you wanted to make it more of an animated approach though you would need to have Animation Shop or Adobe After Effects as Dan Goldman mentions. I have Animation Shop and use it rarely, but it is still useful to have. I got it when I got my Paint Shop Pro 9. It came free with the software.

One thing that I though was cool was the ability to draw graffiti text on moving objects. If you watch the video you will see him put the words Taxi on a moving Taxi. What I really like is the way to add cartoon style call out effects to a home movie or whatever video you want to play around with. The technology is the same as the technology they use to mimic and create human like movements in video games and computer graphic animation movies. Using point to point motion sensors the call out attaches itself to the moving object and is able to move with the object. Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop have preset shapes or brushes that can be used to create a similar effect but it is more or less a static effect that doesn't allow for movement. Unless you use Animation Shop to create the effect and still at that the process is long and tedious.

This new technology in image manipulation would take minutes even hrs off of photo editing as we know it today.

As the heading to this post say's 'I hope Adobe is Able to Bring This to Fruition'