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Director and FantaVs?

    18-Jan-93 23:35:31
Fm: Keith Doyle 75300,3406
To: Jim Ventola 70626,423
I've used Fantavision a little, but I have no idea about the current support status of it. There used to be a program that could be used to capture single frames of any double buffered output and save it as an ANIM, I used it a long time ago to grab an Aegis Animator sequence and a Sculpt-3D Movie and convert it into an ANIM. I think it was a utility produced by Martin Hash on one of his animation utility program disks, but I don't remember which one. It could be rather tedious, but with enough fiddling it did work, and I haven't seen any other utility like it. It would watch the front screen address and detect when a double-buffering switch occurred as a trigger for when to grab the screen as an ANIM frame. You'd tell it how many frames to grab and it would keep going until the number you give it was satisfied. Yeah, here we go, it was called ConvertANIM, and it was by HASH, but I've got it on a disk all by itself marked BETA, so I don't know how it was finally released. Keith