CompuServe Thread

>I can't get ADAM to work.Can't find 'show'. You can use almost any IFF viewer remane it to SHOW and copy it to the C: directory. >if I try to digitize a standard size photo to the full screen size,its >out of focus. I don't have a camcorder but I would think that maybe you are too close to the photo, you could back up and zoom into it then use DCTV to digitize. >I have to make all the VP3 anims in vanim, not in regular format. The >vanim format doesn't allow you to edit individual frames I have VP3 but hardly ever use it. Why do you `have' to use VANIM? <<< Tony D. Tracer >>>

Howdy Andy, SHOW is a image viewer that needs to be put in your C directory. If you have the prg View you can rename it as SHOW and place in your C directory and ADAM should then worki fine. VIEW should be here in Amigaarts Graphic utilities area.

Look on all your VistaPro disks for a program called MakeAnim. If you can find it there is an easy way to build anims. Lets assume you want to make an animation called test.anim. 1: First copy MakeAnim into your C: directory. 2: Next you need a script to execute. Use MakePath or VistaPro's "generate" command to make a path for your camera. 3: Set VisatPro to generate DCTV images and the anim mode to iff. 4: Execute the script and call the images "pic" 5: This will result in a series of DCTV images called pic0001, pic0002… There will also be a file called pic.list. This is a list of the complete file path for each image of the animation. It's created by VistaPro for use with MakeAnim. 6: When all of the frames are rendered open a CLI and "cd" to the directory that the images are in and type: "MakeAnim pic.list test.anim" This will read the file pic.list and create an animation called test.anim. It won't loop properly though. To make it loop you have to use a text editor to copy the first two lines of the pic.list file to the end of the pic.list file. This will create the 2 frame overlap required to make an anim loop. You may also want to look at Rend24 version 1.05. I've had good luck with it. If you perfer ADAM check your config file and the icon tooltypes. You may be able to change "show" to "view" or any other anim viewer you might have. I suspect the problem with your camcorder is that you don't have a macro lens. The camcorder is simply not capable of focusing within about a foot of the lens. Most camcorders dont have changable lens' so you may be out of luck on that one. Check your manual about macro settings.