On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, James Amundson wrote:
> I am trying to convert some visual program animations to mpeg (or any > other movie format). I have had some success with using the Continuous > Saving option of the Save Image command to save my files as ImageMagick > .miff files, then using ImageMagick's convert command to convert .miff > to .mpeg. This procedure fails for large movies (say, 200 frames or > more) because convert seems to be loading the entire movie into memory > before converting. My 1 GB machine runs out of memory quite quickly in > this scenario. > > Does anyone have a suggestion for creating large movies that does not > require gigabytes of RAM? > Try JPGview (if you use Windows) with files saved as jpgs from DX. I've also used Image Magick to tidy DX images, add frames etc prior to encoding. http://www.ndrw.co.uk/free/index.html Also see www.webattack.com (freeware & shareware) if you want to look at other Windows based video compilation/editing tools. Cheers Brent Wood
