#Anims -> Quicktime?
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Howdy,
My buddy wants to write out Anims (DPaint) to use as quicktime frames on
his classroom Mac. Is there an automated way on Ami? AdPro? Fred?
ImageMaster? I use both, but haven't done any animation, or Arex
scripting, so can't easily answer his question.
We can get files over no problem, probably with the excellent CrossMac by
Consultron, and Syquests.
TIA,
Jan
Jan,
FYI, Imagemaster R/t doesn't support Quicktime.
–Ben
…via AutoPilot
Huh ? :^)
IM R/t supports Quicktime?????
I'm currently running IM R/t 1 06.
Can the current rev of IM read/write Quicktime format? Please tell us more
don't tease us. :^)
….John
<sigh> Read the message again. I said it did NOT support Quicktime.
–Ben
…via AutoPilot
But is it VESA compliant? 🙂
<waving madly> Hi Bem.
(heys to Anne, too 🙂
If man were meant to be reasonable, he'd be able to reason.
Eet
Sorry for the confusion Ben. I guess I must have been Dreaming :^)
….John
No problem. :^)
–Ben
…via AutoPilot
John ya seem to have misread Ben's msg he said it Doesn't support
Quicktime
Memeber of AMP
Midgard Graphics
Oooops :^)
….John
Jan,
There is no real solution to rendering quicktime outside of the PC and Mac
platforms as most of quicktime's compression/animation codecs are either
patented or simply undocumented. Mainactor, a PD/Shareware program, has a
very limited quicktime module tho.
Our ImageFX can render out FLC animations and the upcoming 2.0 release will
also support MPEGs which you can find players for on the Mac.
Kermit Woodall
Nova Design, Inc.
Thanx Kermit (and Ben).
Sounds like he does the work manually, over on the Mac. I'll hit the Mac
forums, see if there's an 'automated' utility on the Mac. DeBabelizer or
a scripting utility for Photoshop?
Jan
PMFJI, but if you can easily move the Amiga RGB files over to the Mac,
it's a piece of cake to use DeBabelizer and PhotoShop to create any kind
of QuickTime movie you need. I've done it a number of times – even on my
EMPLANT Mac Emulator.
I use the EMPLANT, but there are a number of less hardware intensive
products (CrossMac, and MaxDOS) that will allow you to mount a Mac
formatted HD and read/write files to it from your Amiga.
Erik Flom – ELF Works 3D Construction Co.
Hi Erik,
Thanx for jumping in here! I looked at Debabelizer yesterday at work and
seems more confusing than AdPro (to a novice! 8-)).
Seriously though, I'm going to check it out further next week. Or, my
buddy and I will.
Again, transferrring the files is zero problem with CrossMac or even AMax
IV, if I can finally get it to boot off my internal??
Any Debabelizer set up hints or tips?
TIA,
Jan
DeBabelizer does have a pretty weird interface! :^)
I just ended up modifying one of the existing batch files. I can't
remember the exact process, though I think DeBab did it on it's own, no
PhotoShop required. Basically, I just set it to load Amiga IFF/ILBM
format, and set the list of files using the requester. Next I set the
output format (QuickTime, etc.) and pathname.
Once the scipt was started, the only feedback is in the bottom of the
toolbar on the left side of the screen. Actual compilation speed was
surprisingly fast on my 40MHz 040 EMPLANT.
Have Fun!
Erik Flom – ELF Works 3D Construction Co.
Jan: Unfortunately, there is not an easy way to get a Amiga anim over to
the QuickTime format. About the only way I know of is to break the Amiga
anim into individual frames, convert them to the PICT format, and then
transfer the PICT frames to the Mac. There is a utility, but can't think
of the name, for the Mac that will take a bunch of PICT frames and convert
them to a QuickTime movie. If you need the name of the utility, let me
know and I'll try to dig it up.
// John – (Being artistic via AutoPilot)
\X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
John,
We pretty much concluded the same, but were thinking DeBabelizer could
batch the IFFs to Picts once they were on the Mac. I didn't get to look
at DeBabelizer at work/school today, maybe tomorrow. Certainly then we'd
want to Quicktime 'em. If you could dig up a pointer to that utility here
on CIS that'd help.
TIA,
Jan