#3d studio to quicktime
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You have two other possibilities. First, there is a IPAS called Quicktime
Movie Maker that will output a MooV file from Video Post when you render.
Second, if you have Premiere 4.0 for Windows (with Quicktime for Windows
installed), you can generate a MooV file that can also be read on the Mac.
Quicktime Movie Maker IPAS is the cheapest option here, unless you already have
one of the other programs. <<
HI William !
It's me again. I was just going over your response and noticed the
>> (with Quicktime for Windows installed), << part. Is quicktime a separate
software or is it part of Premiere ?
Thanks again
Julian
Aguirre Design Network
Premiere 4.0 for Windows will install Video for Windows 1.1 and Quicktime for
Windows 2.0 for you.
HI William !
Thanks again. I am dying to try it out. I ordered premiere last week it should
be here today or tomorrow. Thanks again.
Julian
Aguirre Design Network
Hi Julian,
I just walked in to this thread having the same problem as william. I am not
sure I understood your solution. Did you meen to say that if I have Premiere on
my machine I can output movies (not Flic) out of 3ds directly into Premiere? or
did you mean to say that once I have the Ipas I can open the movies in premiere
and convert them into Mac compatible movies?
Thanks for the insight.
Edo.
With the Quicktime Movie Maker IPAS, you can output directly to a Quicktime
movie that you can open in Premiere. The Mac should also be able to read these
directly. In Premiere, you can open either Flics, or the Quicktime movies that
you output via the IPAS directly from 3D Studio. If you open Flics, you can
convert them to a Quicktime Movie that can be read on the Mac. Premiere can be
of use here in a number of way here, but if you have it on the Mac you don't
have to have it on the PC if you have the QTMM IPAS.
Anyone else using the Quicktime Movie Maker IPAS have something to add here???
What about the quality of Quicktime output? Isn't it better if it renders
directly from 3D Studio? Can converting from flc file to Quicktime lose some
quality?
Ken
PMFJI,
I noticed your reference to the Quicktime Movie Maker IPAS and had a couple of
questions regarding such modules. First off, where could I find this IPAS and
for how much? Secondly, are there any other IPAS' of this sort and where might
they be found? We just did a little project where we rendered a scene and sent
the images to somebody we know that has authoring software on his Mac system.
We would really like to be able to eliminate the "bureau" step of this process.
Thanks in advance,
Ken Rachynski
Network Administrator/Programmer
Evans Consoles Inc.
Ken:
Check this file out, it is in the IPAS library #1 here in the AMMEDIA forum:
>> [71162,131] Tomas Capek
QTIME1.ZIP
Bin, Bytes: 43801, Count: 232, 17-Mar-95 Last:23-Sep-95
Title : Animetix QuickTime Movie Maker v1.13
Keywords: 3D STUDIO 3DS IPAS IXP QUICKTIME ANIMETIX
A plug-in for Video Post under 3D Studio that lets you create 24-bit
QuickTime movie files automatically during rendering. This demo
version supports user-defined output resolution, compression, frame rate,
frame numbering. Check it out.
(Approx DL time at 2400 baud: 3:00; at 14400 baud: 1:00)
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– Bob Ritger
Robert,
Thanks, I'll take a look at it. Looking at the description, though, I realised
that I was actually supposed to ask one further thing. What we're trying to do
is a QuickTime VR output file. Will this IPAS handle the VR format? If not, do
you know of one that does?
Ken Rachynski
Network Administrator/Programmer
Evans Consoles Inc.
Ken:
I don't believe this IPAS will generate Quicktime VR files. You could direct
your question to Dave Avgikos of Digimation 72320,2042. He may be able to give
a more definitive answer.
– Bob Ritger
Bob,
Thanks for the information, I'll contact Dave.
Ken Rachynski
Network Administrator/Programmer
Evans Consoles Inc.
Ken,
You can get Quicktime Movie Maker for about $95 from Technical Animations
(708)-297-1000. I don't know of any other IPAS routines that do this, but if
you have Adobe Premiere for Windows, you can import your flics and convert them
to Quicktime that way. Also, if your client that develops on the Mac has
DeBabelizer (which I imagine most developers would have), then he can convert
your flics on the Mac to Quicktime. For me, the jury is still out on the
Quicktime Movie Maker. The limited conventions used for compression are not
standard (it uses just high, medium and low), rather than the typical Quicktime
compressor settings. But heck, its cheap, and if you don't have Premiere than
it might be worth it. Also, if you need to render with alpha channels, then I
think you'll have to render individual bmp. files, which you can also easily
convert to Quicktime movies with the programs mentioned above. Good luck!
Bill Lacey
Digital Sound and Picture