Who here uses Pdplayer? And to what end?

[danb4026]

I was reading about the Vray Light Select renderelement and how you can

isolate individual lights and adjust exposure after render. The examples all use Pdplayer to add and adjust these elements. I tried playing around with these separate elements in Photoshop, but haven't had success.

 

Any insights?

[Sketchrender]

I tried it once.

 

I was a bit disappointed in the fact that it did not export as a Windows media or Quicktime .

I could not quite see the point of it .

 

I bought quicktime , and it did what I wanted to do.

I did not get into it, but it did not compile the images , and export them as a movie, which i thought was the whole point of it.

 

phil

[Ricardo Eloy]

PDPlayer is a great piece of sotware for those in the comp field. It's feather light on the PC, and allows one to create fast versions of a comp on the fly, including chroma keying with live footage. It's also blistering fast to open VRIMG files.

Great, but maybe not for us. ;-)

[danb4026]

OK, gotcha. Well what about the

Vray Light Select render element? Can

You accomplish what they did with it in PDplayer in Photoshop?

[Nic H]

i dont have vray 2.0 yet but doesn't it just render each light on black that you can screen back together in photoshop?

[Jason Matthews]

Download the trial version and give it a shot. I have PDPlayer and Vray 2.0 but haven't tried it. It looks very interesting though.

 

On a side note, PDPlayer is great for animations, and the individual light selector I would imagine is perfect for animations. Personally, I make tweaks to the image sequences (contrast, hue, saturation, etc) and then export the new image sequence. Then I bring into video comp software and viola.

 

I would not buy it as an image editor though. You can accomplish the same thing with PS.