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With the sale of Mirage to TVPaint, I trust all the ancillary items came along as well. Where can I find their new home?

I'm especially looking for the stop-motion plugin and the tutorials.
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I checked the old Mirage 1.5 install disc and the main Tutorials are on there.

Also, on this thread in the Aura/Mirage support sub-forum Patrice suggests that perhaps they will be posting the Mirage tutorials on the TVPaint site soon. see HERE



Has anyone checked to see if the Mirage tutorial pages are cached in the Internet Wayback Machine ?

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

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A:M Dave wrote:With the sale of Mirage to TVPaint, I trust all the ancillary items came along as well. Where can I find their new home?

I'm especially looking for the stop-motion plugin and the tutorials.
See my previous post about the tutorials.

The Stop-Motion plug-in I assume you mean is the Canon plug-in which allows the use of Canon Digital Still Cameras to capture frames ?

See in the Contents Sharing forum : Canon Plug-In

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A:M Dave wrote:With the sale of Mirage to TVPaint, I trust all the ancillary items came along as well. Where can I find their new home?

I'm especially looking for the stop-motion plugin and the tutorials.
nb : the lastest lesson (#18) of the manual shows the Canon plug-in at work.
Also, you will find the compatible camera in the appendix.
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Fabrice forgot to mention the new canon plugin v. 2.0 which is included in the TVPA Creation Pack,
it's not free, but if you are going to work seriously on a stopmotion animation, the addition of the Macro-mode and the AutoFocus-Lock new features is worth the price, imo.
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btw, the settings (White B = Auto, Flash = Auto & Red Eye :shock:, ...) we can see on this grab
seem to me a bit irrelevant, when it comes to shoot a timelapse Sunset ... :wink:
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A:M Dave wrote:With the sale of Mirage to TVPaint, I trust all the ancillary items came along as well. Where can I find their new home?

I'm especially looking for the stop-motion plugin and the tutorials.
In addition to the Canon plugin, you can also use TVPaint with WDM drivers to do frame capturing from USB or Firewire cameras (like from DV cameras), and you get all of the benefits of onion skinning, flip book, etc., that a lot of stand alone stop-motion programs provide.
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Good idea, David Nethery.

The Wayback Machine does indeed yield results.
The following looked interesting to me; maybe some folks who remember useful threads from the Mirage forum can dig them up and post them here.

Element Script Stuff for AnimBrushes
http://web.archive.org/web/200603150837 ... php?t=2694

Animating at Double Resolution
http://web.archive.org/web/200605120527 ... php?t=3592

Scanning Drawings into Mirage
http://web.archive.org/web/200605120521 ... php?t=3566

These seem to be clipped off. And the later dates on the Wayback Machine require a login into the Mirage forums. Does anyone have one that works?

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Just had a chance to try the plug-in, but quickly found this is not the Mirage version I was looking for. It is looking for TVPaint.exe (not Mirage)

Does anyone have the old Bauhaus version somewhere? I was just about to get into all the downloads when they went and pulled the rug out from under us.
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excuse my dumb question.
does the old mirage camera plug and the new one only work with cannon cameras ?
... i think it's time to get a new camera.
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sury rony wrote:excuse my dumb question.
does the old mirage camera plug and the new one only work with canon cameras ?
... i think it's time to get a new camera.
yes, if you intend to work with still camera,
only the IXUS/PowerShot Canon camera family is supported actually,
The EOS class of digital cameras are not yet supported.
if you want to get a new camera for shooting directly in tvpa,
take care to choose a model providing the "Remote Control" feature,
(not always clearly mentioned on the adv. flyers).
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