jwb@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Jeff W. Brogden) (05/16/89)
Hello, I am fairly new to the Amiga and USENET. I have 2 questions, and any help would be appreciated. Here is some background info: System: A2000 (stock i.e. only 1meg of RAM and no speed-up card) 2 floppies Sony 1310 Monitor (more or less a basic set-up) 1.) I am using Turbo Silver 3.0 to do some ray-tracing. I would like to do some animations as well. Problem, only 2 floppies. I figure I can get about 10-15 traced pictures on a disk. A 10-15 frame animation is not large enough for some of the ideas I have in mind. What I would like to do, and hope it can be done is this: a. Create animation in Turbo Silver 3.0 and save object files to df0: (these files contain all the info about the scene for each frame). b. Generate three or four at a time while i'm at work/school, saving the stills on df1:. c. When the df1: is full (about 10-15 frames), stick in a different disk, and keep on generating frames as in (b). d. When all the frames have been generated, use another program to build the animation from the frames. Part (d) is the part that is the problem. Turbo Silver 3.0 will generate animations from the stills, but to my knowledge, the stills all have to be on the same disk, or in the same directory. What I want to be able to do is to take the first 10 frames and compress them into an animation file format (anim, movie, etc.). Then, take the next disk, and add them in, or append them onto the existing animation file. Another plus is to be able to do wipes/fades and add sound. Are there any PD or commercial programs that will allow you to do this? (build onto existing animation files.) 2.) I would like to save some of these animations to video, or link several long animations together on video. Is there any "poor-man's" hardware/software available to do some video editing. The senerio (sp?) I have in mind is: a. Produce several scenes of an overall larger animation. b. Save these scenes onto video tape in no particular order. c. Edit from one VCR to another VCR to put the scenes into a logical order, and maybe dub in some sound. Is anyone doing this sort of thing? Since I'm on a limited budget (i.e. student), cost in $$ is important. Thanks in advance for any information you can give me. Please e-mail me your responses at the address below (hope they are right, this is my first posting to USENET). =============================================================================== Jeff Brogden Internet: jwb@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu UUCP: rutgers!ksuvax1!jwb ===============================================================================