Toaster DVE

[wturber]

How complicated can a custom DVE for the Toaster get? Are there any online examples (AVIs, MPEGs, etc. online) or galleries.

Also, is there a limit to how long a DVE can be?

Thanks,

[Danner]

Well.. there are free downloadable DVEs at www.toastersupport.com and some other places, but they are not that hard to make.

The simplest form of DVE is a wipe wich is very easy to make with Aura, just animate any way you like a solid colored image to a completely transmparent image and save the layer as a DVE, you can also add another layer with moving colored graphics. For example make a side to side wipe and in another layer add a football that travels with the wipe. You can also pan your source image to any side you want with this kind of DVE
DVEs are reversible, so you can either have it come or go.

The more complex kind of DVE is the lightwave kind, if you are confortable with lightwave and can read a somewhat incomplete and slightly outdated documentation the DVE creation kit is for you. Basically you use a special image that will get replaced with your clips in realtime.

You can blow up, split, slice, reduce, roll up, construct, reflect, proyect, abduct.. or anything your imagination can come up with (and your lightwav skills can make).
Bummer #1 is that you can do all this to just one of your clips. the other must remain static.
Bummer #2 takes ages to render. (24hr renders on a 2ghz machine are not that uncommon)