bit flics
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Brad, maybe I misunderstood the question, but if you want 24-bit
flics, then get over to the Graphdev forum, and grab Dave's Targa
Animator.I'm assuming from your question about Pentiums that you run
Imagine on a PC).
DTA can write flics in 8, 16, and 24-bits, and includes a
viewer to be able to watch the high and true color modes.It also does
a trillion other things too. Check it out. Phil.
How many frames per second will those 24 bit FLICS run at in 640*480 Rez?
I know my frieds 486-66DX2 at this rez with 256 color FLC's run VERY
JERKY and don't imagine that a pentium based machine improves this to
the point where 16.8 MILLION color FLC's will run at any DECENT Frame
Rate. I could be wrong of course having never used a Pentium based
machine but don't think I am, after all we're talking an average of
24-30 MEGS PER SECOND sustained.
To whomever,
24 bit anims suffer from two things, one the lack of a palette, or the
fact that the palette has so many colors that it takes time to compute them,
the other problem is the hard drive to play them back from must be very quick.
As for playing them in RAM, you might be able to do this on a slow processor
the problem is that the image would have to be very small, say the size of a
postage stamp, a rez of say 80 by 60 pixels might work. Of course the amount
of colors that you will get is limited.
24 bit is also not all that important. A standard NTSC or PAL image
probably only uses around 2 or 3 million colors. The important factor has to
do with the blending and dithering math.
Of course this will all go away as soon as we all have speedier cpus
and ram and really fast drives., We are almost there, of course the PAR or the
DREAM MACHINE are better solutions to the problem.
Mike Halvorson
Thanx for the info Mike. For now I'm quite happy with the NTSC results
from my DCTV unit. MPEG looks interesting for Compiling anims on the
IBM/Clone side of the world.
Pete
MPEG, it costs billions to encode, JPEG is real and affordable.
Mike
Untrue, a MPEG Capture Card is less than $1500, at least this is what I'm
led to believe by a Local dealer here in Brooklyn.
Tho I AM VERY interested in the Newtek FLYER.
Peter, what is the "flyer"? Is it an animation recoder? I guess there is only
a NTSC version.
-David
>> of course the PAR or the DREAM MACHINE are better solutions to the
>> problem.
Is the DREAM MACHINE the machine you once mentioned here? With the Alpha CPU
and video capabilities? If yes, will there be a PAL version and when?
to anyone:
has anyone seen/tested the Matrox aniamtion recorder? I only saw a small
review in DTVW magazine and it said it was very good quality, even better than
the PAR.
-David