#Amiga to PC
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My colleague is working with Dpaint, creating some very nice animations that I
would like to be able to use in a PC based mm authoring package.
Does anyone know how I can convert (either on the Amiga or PC) .IFF files to
ones that will be acceptable to PC. .AVI etc.
many thanks
Peter Ward
Peter, If you have a PAR on the Amiga or even ADPRO (with Professional
pack) you can convert them to .tga(.tga's only on the PAR), tiff, or
gif formats with ADPro. There is probably a PD software package that
will convert them that I am not aware of but I am sure you will get
more replies than just mine.
Peter,
You have several solutions open to you. Autodesk Animator Pro on the PC can
load Amiga anims and convert them. I believe Corel has a converter as well.
On the Amiga you need ImageFX. It can load Amiga images and animations and
save them out to PC images or animation format.
Kermit Woodall
Nova Design, Inc.
Do you know what version of Corel might support Amiga ANIMS?
No, the Corel reference was only through someone else who told me
about it. I'm sure it would be the most current one. The big
"gotcha" with all conversions of Amiga anims to PC animations is that
the PC programs mostly do lackluster conversions and often even fail
to support HAM. I've yet to see one support HAM8 for sure.
Kermit,
Ok, thanks. I have an Amiga based presentation which I have be trying
to figure how to port to Windoze but all the solutions seem to be
more complicated than it is worth. As I have Corel3 I thought maybe
it would make things simpler.
There is a Windows shareware program called Paint Shop Pro which you
can download from one of the Windows or Graphics forums. I forget
which one. It will read both Amiga .IFF and DPaint files. They can
then be saved as TIF or whatever you want. This program has a very
nice interface – very slick.