I'm not the original writer, but I do it this way also. I write TIFFs out of openDX, then slurp them into either After Effects for post-processing/prettifying or just to QT Pro. QT Pro can open an ordered list of files and make an instant movie. Just save it using whatever compressor you like. Or send the output through 'cleaner' from Discreet to generate other compressed formats. QT does not read miff; GIF is too color-compressed for my taste (8 bit). openDX can't write compressed TIFFs, so since I have been running on Windows for the last 6 months (since they tore my SGI out of my hands), I run the output through Debabelizer to compress to LZW before shipping to the Mac. Real soon now, I'm going to try to get openDX running on the Mac (OS X) for all my needs (including hardware rendering on occasion, something that I believe the recent Apple X server doesn't support right yet).
I use After Effects to composite nice text/axes/etc. over the scruffy looking text that openDX makes, whenever possible (rotating axes are not easily dealt with in this way of course). Then I can add additional motion graphics techniques (done in 2D) much more easily than it would take to do in openDX. After Effects outputs QT mov's which can then be sent to iDVD for DVD, or to cleaner for wmv, mpg, etc. as the client requires.
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 09:04 AM, Daniel J. Patnaude wrote:
Carlos-
How do you do it with quicktime pro? In particular, do you have opendx output the data as a series of gifs, or will quicktime pro handle a miff file?
-Dan
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