Weatherlover's Emulations

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This is from the Nashville, TN area where a potent line of thunderstorms just blew through and is now to their S and E. (View attachment below)

4000 V3 Emulator
F Flavor (1992)
Song: "Mexicoco" by Wayman Tisdale (Song featured on the September 2000 Playlist)

WeatherSTAR4000 V3 Emulator - September 5, 2012

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WeatherSTAR4000 V3 Emulator - Casper, WY - 10/5/2012
Song: Take a Guess...
Hint: It's a remix of a video game power-up theme.

WeatherSTAR4000 V3 Emulator - Casper, WY - 10/5/2012

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WeatherStar4000 v3 Emulator -Thanksgiving 2012 Forecast

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WeatherSTAR4000 v3 Emulator - December 20, 2012 (Mattoon, IL)

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As much as 3-5 inches of rain could fall over the next few days.

Local Forecasting STAR - WeatherSTAR XL
Song: The Rippingtons - "Tourist in Paradise"
Playlist: February 2001
Date of Forecast: 2/10/13 @ 6:08 PM EST
Location: Atlanta, GA

WeatherSTARXL V1 Emulation - February 10, 2013

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WeatherSTAR4000 Emulation:  May 31, 2013 (After Effects CS6 Project)
D Flavor - 1992-1995

All weather data is 100% valid and provided by the NWS and intellicast.com

Things made in AE
- Gradient Orange/Purple Banner (Made one piece with the Pen Tool; duplicated it 9 additional times, changing the colors using the Eye Dropper tool)
- Gradient Background
- Blue Template (Latest Obs, Local Forecast, etc.)
- Top Blue Bar
- Bottom Blue Bar
- Time Ticker (Used key-frame animations to get the seconds to tick as displayed in the video)
- Ad Crawl
- Current Radar Banner (Done partially in the same way as the Orange/Purple Banner)

Things made in MS PP 2010; Imported into AE
- Black/Greyish-Blue Line (On top of the Bottom Blue Bar)
- Radar (courtesy of www.intellicast.com), Interstate Lines, Interstate Markers, County Outlines, and City Markers

Things Made in MS Paint (2012)
Regional Map - I'm gonna redo it over at some point though.

Song: Destination: The Outer Rings by Clifford Marshall Van Buren (April 1993 Playlist)
Source: TWC Classics (http://www.twcclassics.com/local-forecast/playlists/april-1993)

WeatherSTAR4000 Emulation: May 31, 2013 (After Effects CS6 Project)

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Around the time the Tornado Warning was issued for the northern half of my county, I put all of this together in AE post after the storms moved out.

WeatherSTAR4000 Emulation with Tornado Warning Crawl - June 13, 2013

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E Flavor (1992-1995)
Source: www.twcclassics.com

Wonderful start to the first day of Summer

Song: Network Music - "Sweet Summer"

WeatherSTAR4000 Emulation (After Effects CS3)

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Completed L Flavor
Song: "In the Rain" by Kenny G. (April 1993 Playlist) - Couldn't have picked a more appropriate song. 
It took me until a couple of days ago to figure out how to get the icons to sync with the text on the TCF, but once I experimented and figured it out I had my DUH moment.

Also to those who see this if the audio is too low, let me know. I can re upload a second version that's narration free in it's place. I can't really judge for myself because the left audio in my earphones isn't working, there's a cut on the wire so I can only hear audio from the right side.

WeatherStar4000 Emulation - July 4, 2013

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Several weeks ago I mentioned I was working simultaneously on two legacy STARs, well here's the other one completed in After Effects after about 5-6 weeks. Just like I did with the 4000, I studied over different XLs (real and emulated) to get the animations/transitions right.

NOTE: The radar for Atlanta (KFFC) was not working today from the NOAA site so I had to leave that blank. Also I'm not purposely trying to self promote Mc Donalds, the ad I used for the ad crawl is the same ad, word for word that's been used on my IntelliStar unit for the past few months.

Song: Trammell Starks - "Fair Weather/Better Than Nothing" (Track 1; Q3 1999 Playlist)
http://www.twcclassics.com/local-forecast/playlists/july-1999

Flavor: K (1 min. 30 secs.)

WeatherSTARXL v1 Emulation (circa 1999 2001) - After Effects

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WeatherSTAR XL v1 Emulation - Regional Maps (Done in Photoshop)

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WeatherSTAR4000 Emulation J Flavor: August 9, 2013

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It's been about 9 months since the last time I made an IntelliStar emulation and back then it was made in Powerpoint 2010 like most of my emulations have been. However, this is my very first time emulating this version of the IntelliStar from scratch in After Effects. The last time I attempted to emulate the IntelliStar was of the current version back in August 2010. I haven't tried to do any version of the STAR since.

Boy, I've learned a lot about this software in those 3 years since...

Completion Date: Fall 2013 or Winter 2014

Update: Revised from Scratch - IntelliSTAR v1 Emulation (After Effects) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

So far what I've done has come out well. Just need to make minor tweaks (when I have the free time like today) over the next several months.

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radar test xlv1 emulation after effects

I used Pittsburgh's radar source from the NWS as an example. In addition using Atlanta as the main radar location in my composition. The attachment below is how it turned out.

I used Color Key Difference to remove the blue radar echoes
I used the Color key to remove the black background

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Update #2

Update #2 IntelliSTAR v1 Emulation (After Effects) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)