Photo Studio 2 Compatibility with S4000 Pro

[ShadowVision]

Well, I'm on the verge of upgrading to the S4000 Pro and I'm really excited. However, I have one really big concern: Photo Studio 2!

On my last project, I had hundreds of photo animations. Being able to scan and bring photos into the machine is essential to my work.

Does anyone know when the compatibility issues will be worked out?

Is there another piece of software that does the same thing that is compatible?

[Volker]

With Photo-Transfer you can bring your JPG images into the S4000 using USB and Firewire devices.
Photo-Transfer supports SD and HD projects. Using a Full-HD DVI monitor in 1920x1080, your photos will look like you have never seen them before.

Volker

[normross]

But the question is framed around the "pan and scan" capabilities of Photo Studio 2, and unfortunately the answer does not address these.

- Norm Ross
Norman Ross Productions
Salt Lake

[LouBruno]

The use of ZOOM would work temporarily for a limited motion on the imported clips. I assume PS2 will be available shortly.

[ShadowVision]

I'm sure that this is going to be worked out soon. I'm ordering my S4000 Pro next week with the expectation of this problem being worked out by the end of the year. Since I'm keeping my AVIO, I may have to do photo animation with the AVIO or my Mac until that time.

As far as using zoom, there is a loss of resolution and it has a little vignetting coming from my AVIO to a flat screen. For example, if you use zoom on a standard tube tv (with a 4:3 project), zoom looks fine (other than a loss of resolution if extremely zoomed in). But when you display this project on a flat screen monitor or widescreen computer screen, it displays white lines on either side of the screen. This is not that noticeable but if you look closely you can see it. This happens with some other image processing effects as well (like color to gray and film).


But now I'm going all HD with two Sonys (a 1000U and a HC9), so everything ought to be in widescreen. With photos, my two new HD cameras shoot photos in widescreen at 4.1 megapixel in video mode. This is very useful.

As an aside, the Sonys are a compromise for me. They are consumer pretty much but are what I can afford at the moment. If you have the dough go with an HVX, it is amazing! I just finished my doc feature using a DVX and a smaller 3 ccd consumer panni. I have to tell you guys the consumer camera was great. I ended up using it for a lot of shots. So, the consumer cameras have their place. Check out a film called The Aristocrats that was shot with very small consumer cameras. It is 4:3 on dvd (an SD feature) and works well. Also, the Sundance winner this year, Trouble the Water, was shot mostly with a Sony DV consumer camera from what I could tell. The color match on that one was remarkable. But the folks involved in producing Trouble are top shelf!