DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu (Doug Bischoff) (05/22/91)
Hey all. I've got a nifty little 250 frame Imagine animation that I ren-
dered in 24 bit and converted to DCTV format. The pic size is whatever the DCT
V manual sez it's best at... 7xx by 6xx I think... I forget. Anyway...
I'm trying to put all these files together into an animation... and no
program I've tried can do it. For example:
Makeanim - Has a maximum screen size and chopps off the far right and
bottom of the picture. Naughty, naughty.
DPaint III - The version I have can't animate on a screen that's larger
than the screen you're working with and you can't resize it.
BuildAnim - An ANCIENT piece of software that I don't know why I have
would require me to pick by hand all 250 frames. No thanks.
Well... any suggestions?
Also: can anybody recommend a program to do general editing on Animations?
For example:
Changing the Timing on a frame-by-frame or entire-anim basis
Split anims
Paste anims
* Create an anim that is a DVE of either a still or an anim *
Other editing tricks
I've been playing with AnimMagic... but I don't own it and I need a
program I can depend on with my A3000 that won't hang on the last frame of a
DVE (like AnimMagic does... looks GREAT up until that point.) and I want
something that'll handle DCTV images (AnimMagic does this as well.)
Thanks!
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In article <91142.111855DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu> DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu (Doug Bischoff) writes: > > Hey all. I've got a nifty little 250 frame Imagine animation that I ren- >dered in 24 bit and converted to DCTV format.The pic size is whatever the DCTV > manual sez it's best at... 7xx by 6xx I think... I forget. Anyway... > I'm trying to put all these files together into an animation... and no >program I've tried can do it. For example: I've been using PageFlipper F/X with no problems. However, most of my anims are done 640x400 or 640x200 for speed reasons (I need to know what they will look like at 30 fps when recorded 24bit single frame). Animation Station should also be able to handle this as well as The Director. %~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~% % ` ' Mark Thompson CONCURRENT COMPUTER % % --==* RADIANT *==-- mark@westford.ccur.com Principal Graphics % % ' Image ` ...!uunet!masscomp!mark Hardware Architect % % Productions (508)392-2480 (603)424-1829 & General Nuisance % % % ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
dave@pluto.dss.com (Dave Monachello) (05/23/91)
Hi, Animation Station has problems dealing with DCTV frames. It can read them in but it has problems doing just about everything else. I'm not just talking about functions which modify the frames (I can understand why that is a problem), but it also can't copy or reorder these frames. It also has problems reading in anims made from DCTV frames with makeanim. If anyone has had better luck with animation station and dctv please post info on how they got it to work. I think that animation station would be a great program if it WOULD work with dctv. later dave
seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) (05/25/91)
In-Reply-To: message from DEB110@psuvm.psu.edu My partner and I just finished a DCTV anim that got us invitations to see Kings X at a local club this weekend (haven't slept for the past two days working on it!) MakeANIM and ANIMBuild, and other programs of their ilk, just make your standard ANIM file (read: don't move anything too big or you're looking at 5fps screen updates). We broke the piece up into chunks that varied from 15 to 45 frames and compiled them with MindWare's PageFlipper Plus/FX. To get the best possible playback speed, we used PFX's TURBO compression. PFX lets you tweek your compression scheme several different ways (ie: TURBO, vertical compression, horizontal compression). The animations came out great. One thing to remember when using PFX and DCTV is not to use DCTV's highest VERTICAL resolution (736 pixels). PFX chops off some of the control information, which destroys the animation. Render to about 704 pixels across for compatibility with PFX, and with DPaint III. Sean >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> .SIG v2.5 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< UUCP: ...!crash!pnet01!pro-party!seanc RealWorld: Sean Cunningham ARPA: !crash!pnet01!pro-party!seanc@nosc.mil Voice: (512) 992-2810 INET: seanc@pro-party.cts.com ____________________________________ // | * All opinions expressed herein | HELP KEEP THE COMPETITION UNDER \X/ | Copyright 1991 VISION GRAPHICS | >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<