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I am looking for a bright idea regarding the following: I constantly am
dropping series of segments to tape in which I include a 10 sec hold at both
ends of the segment. In other words, I am using 300 frame head and tails
setups.
The problem is that most of the segments take only about an hour to drop to
tape. I am tired of babysitting the process. I am looking for a way to set
several of these up at once. For example:
test0000.tga -> 300 frame heads since it is my first frame
test0001-test0239.tga -> drops normally
test0240.tga -> 300 frame tail since it is my last frame
Here is where I want to either leave a five second gap and then continue with
the next segment, or attach the next segment at end of the first, but still
employ a 10 second hold (or 300 frame head and tail) for the first and last
frame of the new segment.
Any great ideas? I tried perfroming this in batch mode, but calculating exact
frame locations for the next segment can get tough. I normally come back the
next moring to find places where I was a frame or two off.
Christopher:
There are a few different ways to accomplish what you are doing, but I'd have
to have a little more info to suggest one which works with your setup. What
VTR are you using, what controller, can you use a DOS batch mode or do you need
to go through 3DS?
Greg Pyros [Pyros Partnership, Inc] gpyros@pyros.com 31-Dec-93 at 8:05a PST
>>hold, animate, hold…
Christopher, me too. I could never find anyway better than to get up and feed
the baby in the middle of the night. You can make an IFL, but then you have to
put up with the pre-roll on all the repeat frames in your head or tails.
With the Diaquest controller, one can theoretically write a batch file to run
the controller directly (using the 'copycom edit' stuff). At the time I tried
this all worked well except I couldn't find a good way to get my TGAs to the
Vista in the correct aspect ratio (from DOS). Would this method work for you?
JKJ
JKJ:
>> this all worked well except I couldn't find a good way to get my TGAs to >>
the Vista in the correct aspect ratio (from DOS).
Huh? What were you doing? Even the VLOAD program from DiaQuest that comes
with their software automatically does this for you.
What problems were you having? We do this from DOS all the time!
Greg Pyros
Chris,
I wrote a program to do just that, unfortunately it only works with the
Diaquest dq422(+) and the targa+ series.
You create a text file similar in format to an .ifl (used by 3ds) and run my
program from the command line. It will ask you for the inpoint, name of .ifl
file, and some other stuff which I don't remember. To create the 5-second gap,
you'd have to create a blank .tga file and have it do a 300 frame insert.
It's very easy to use and is much better than 3ds's use of the .ifl for the
disk-to-vtr operation because it doesn't preroll every frame if you ask it to
do more than one frame per image (e.g. file0000.tga 300).