.FLC to .AVI conversion?
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Craig, we also have an ImMIX VideoCube. I recommend DeBabelizer, a
Mac program that does EVERYTHING IMAGINABLE when it comes to bitmap
image file format conversions. Yes, it converts .TGAs to a QuickTime
movie, and they don't even have to be sequentially numbered! You can
convert MULTIPLE sequences of .TGA, .TIF, .JPG, or any other still
file format, AND add in some .AVIs and .FLCs and other animation
formats, and even throw in some graphics (still and animated) from
Amigas, Suns, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Commodore 64, Abekas, Pixar, you
name it, and make ONE QuickTime movie out of them! AND do all sorts
of transformations on them in the process — you want to apply
Photoshop 1.x filters? No problem! How about color palette
optimization (say, you want to make a FLC that will play under
Windows without palette-shifting the whole screen)? No problem!
Sharpen? Smooth? Resize (say the various source images are different
sizes, but you want to make the QuickTime movie be a consistent
640×480)? No problem! It even has easy-to-use scripting!
If you don't need all the transform capabilities and just want the
file format exchange abilities, then get DeBabelizer Lite.
I have not tried HiJaak Pro, but it supposedly has similar features
plus supports vector formats (Illustrator, Encapsulated PostScript,
etc, but I doubt it supports any of 3DS's native formats such as
.3DS, .SHP, .LFT, etc.) and runs on the PC instead of the Mac.
Marion, thanks a bunch for replying. What is the best way(s) to get the pc
.tga files into the the MAC…I currenlty have a lantastic network for my 3DS
pc but not quite sure on how to easily get them to the MAC for conversion in
DeBabelizer…Regards, Craig.
Craig,
Have a look at Adobe Premiere for Windows…
It imports FLI and FLC and sequential TIF files and saves in Mac Quicktime…
Donald
Do you have LANtastic for Macintosh? That allows you to set up a small PC
(say, a 386SX with 2MB RAM — you don't need a lot of speed here) as a
dedicated "gateway" between LANtastic and Ethernet AppleTalk. The Macs need an
Ethernet port (the PowerMacs all come with them), and the PC needs both a
standard Ethernet card (the NodeRunner will do) plus an AppleTalk Ethernet card
(3com makes the one we use). The gateway will support an entire AppleTalk
network chain (it can have multiple Macs, PostScript printers, etc.) and makes
the whole chain look like a single LANtastic node.
Once set up, any of the Macs can access any of the drives on any of the
servers at will. It even supports file extension/type mapping, so that, say,
files ending in ".PCT" on the PC become PICTs on the Mac.
It works well for us.