es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) (05/03/91)
I'm trying to find the best way to make an animation in VistaPro and render it into HAM-E format. It can create an animation in IFF 24 ANIM format. Is there any way to convert that anim into HAM-E? Also, I could create the individual frames in separate files and then combine them all into an ANIM afterwards. Is there a PD program that takes IFF images and makes an anim out of them? Oh yes, this'll be under 2.0 on a 3000. Thanks, -- Ethan "Brain! Brain! What is Brain?"
benw@genly.UUCP (Ben Williams) (05/04/91)
In article <1991May2.214251.26471@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > > I'm trying to find the best way to make an animation in >VistaPro and render it into HAM-E format. It can create an >animation in IFF 24 ANIM format. Is there any way to convert that >anim into HAM-E? Also, I could create the individual frames in >separate files and then combine them all into an ANIM afterwards. >Is there a PD program that takes IFF images and makes an anim out >of them? > Oh yes, this'll be under 2.0 on a 3000. Thanks, > -- Ethan > >"Brain! Brain! What is Brain?" The best way to make an ANIM from a 24 bit source is to use the ARexx scripting in Image Professional to handle the job. Create individual 24 bit frames, and IP can do them one after another. For best results in animation, use the 18 bit render mode, not the 24 bit. Less changes on the screen, you see. Black Belt Tech Support
hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) (05/04/91)
In article <1991May2.214251.26471@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > > I'm trying to find the best way to make an animation in >VistaPro and render it into HAM-E format. It can create an >animation in IFF 24 ANIM format. Is there any way to convert that >anim into HAM-E? Also, I could create the individual frames in >separate files and then combine them all into an ANIM afterwards. >Is there a PD program that takes IFF images and makes an anim out >of them? > Oh yes, this'll be under 2.0 on a 3000. Thanks, > -- Ethan > >"Brain! Brain! What is Brain?" A Brain is a computer made out of meat. The best way to convert a series of IFF24 files churned out by VistaPro would be thru ASDG's ADPro, which can be ARexx-script-driven. In fact there's a nifty ARexx program on People/Link which, if you have the memory to do it, lets you run both VistaPro and ADPro at the same time, watches a given directory for VistaPro to write an IFF24 to, shoves the IFF24 into ADPro, and causes ADPro to turn it into [whatever] mode and write it back out to disk again. Thus the whole thing could be an automatic process. Unfortunately, at this time, ADPro (Version 1.0.3, the FREE upgrade just shipped to registered owners [the box has a gold star on the cover]) has only a HAM-E loader, not a HAM-E saver. Dunno why. Well you could probably figure out why if you thought about a while and knew the two companies involved :) One freely distributable program I've used to create series of separate IFFs into anim format is Cryogenic Software's "BUILDANIM" commonly found in a collection of programs by them called "CRYOUTILS.LZH" There are many other programs that will do this, however being a recent HAM-E owner, I don't know which ones will and which ones won't leave the HAM-E "cookie" alone when they touch those files. I haven't tried ANY of this on a 3000 since I don't have one, and I run my cert. dev. flavor of 2.0 infrequently so far. "Half of me wants to knock you out. Harv Laser Half of me wants to tell you that {anywhere}!crash!hrlaser I'm sorry..." American People/Link: CBM*HARV