Thank you very much for this ... Right now, I got it working with mpeg2encode. I'm sure the approach will be useful some other time/place.
Regards, On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Lloyd A Treinish wrote: > > I don't use Quicktime, so I don't know what it needs. But other > movie/video making tools can take as input a sequence of frames. The issue > will be the format. Typically, that's targa, tiff or yuv. You would be > able to use ImageMagick convert to put the frames in whatever format is > required by the tool you would use. > > You can have DX dump to separate files. You can do that in a couple of > different ways. If you want to use the mechanism of saving continuously > from the Image window to a single file, then do the following when the > network is done running: > > convert +adjoin my_movie.miff my_movie-%03d.tif (or something similar > depending on the format you need). > > That will create a sequence of files, one per frame, named by frame number, > i.e., my_movie-000.tif, my_movie-001.tif, ...) > > Another way is to have DX do this directly. You would need to modify your > network to use Render->WriteImage (not using Image at all). > Sequencer->Format would be used to create the file name to pass to > WriteImage. This is what I do with networks for networks that run in batch > for automated movie production. I have this approach integrated in > interactive applications so that a user can set a button and the movie file > is produced or that same network runs in script mode with passed parameters > to create the movie. > > > "CUI, Guanglei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@opendx.watson.ibm.com on > 10/25/2002 11:05:58 AM > > Please respond to [email protected] > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: [email protected] > cc: > Subject: Re: [opendx-users] create movie file in opendx > > > > Thanks for the two replies. I don't have Berkeley MPEG-1 encoder > installed in my linux box. I'll try to play it a little bit. > I noticed DX can save rgb format file with multiple images. Can I > somehow split them into separate files? I know some tools to combine > multiple images into a quicktime format movie file. > > -- Guanglei Cui Dept. of Chemistry SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11790
