What software is used to make these videos?
August 23, 2008 1:41 PM   Subscribe

Are these done in Flash or something else? (click the cover to preview the videos) One Two And how about these? Three Four
posted by SampleSize to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)
 
The first two are JW FLV.

The second two seem to be a custom movie player, or a commercial player that doesn't identify itself in any obvious way.
posted by SirStan at 2:02 PM on August 23, 2008


I assume you're asking how the original video was rendered, not how it was delivered to your browser.

There isn't any way to know for sure, but there isn't anything in the first two which is beyond the ability of Flash, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's how it was done.

The other two, no way. What's going on there is way beyond anything Flash can do.
posted by Class Goat at 2:13 PM on August 23, 2008


It looks like After Effects to me (or at least I've made similar things in AE). I suspect there's at least a few apps out there could produce something similar.
posted by doctor_negative at 2:14 PM on August 23, 2008


Sorry -- The interface is done with Macromedia Flash. They existed as .AVI, .MOV, etc files created by some professional studio, possibly just captured and not even edited. They were then converted to FLV (flash) files. The later two might have been with any number of commecial utilities. The first two are just an off the shelf flash player called JW FLV as linked.

So no -- none of those 4 videos were "made" in Flash, but the video files are being presented to the user by Flash.
posted by SirStan at 2:17 PM on August 23, 2008


Response by poster: Sorry I wasn't clear. Yes, I wanted to know (or have some guesses at) what software was used to create the abstract video art.
posted by SampleSize at 2:24 PM on August 23, 2008


Even before clicking the link I figured it was probably After Effects. The first two could easily be done in Flash. I looked up Eric Pajot (the 3rd and 4th videos) and this page mentions him using Artmatic Pro and VTrack, but I couldn't say for sure which videos of his use those applications.


I thought your question was perfectly clear. I don't know why SirStan got confused.
posted by O9scar at 3:09 PM on August 23, 2008


It'd be very easy to do #1 or #2 using Motion (part of Final Cut Studio). The others would be trickier; I'm not sure how I'd go about reproducing those.
posted by ook at 3:43 PM on August 23, 2008


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