#Gasp! ANIM speed
Aargh!
I just completed my second Imagine animation, this time using a moving
camera. Everything got rendered at 704 X 440, converted down to 352 X 220
HAM-E format (to get some anti-aliasing in there), the ANIM was compiled,
and then…
The whole thing ran at 3.8 frames/second. On a 25 MHz A3000. With static
column RAM. I could scream. I PAID $7,000 FOR THIS?
Anyway, what do I do now? Now don't sweet-talk me into getting rid of
the graduated background to speed things up. I have a 24-bit renderer, an
18-bit graphics add-on, and by golly I'm going to show them off. The
solution as I see it is to do away with all this compression stuff and go
with an animation program that will flip between uncompressed images as
fast as the 68030 can go. Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead, and let's
buy some more RAM!
Does PageFlipper+F/X work this way? Is there a PD program that will do
the same? At 352 X 220 and 4 bitplanes, I figure my 25-frame animation will
fit comfortably into my machine.
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