When we're putting together promo videos, we just dump out each frame as a tga then use Avid to edit the sequence and turn it into a useable video. Admittedly we have a high-end Avid suite for this, but the dumping of the frames goes from the PS3, down the network and onto our PCs. We run at about 1 fps, but you can capture quite a lot of video by letting it run overnight. In our case, we have several machines capturing different parts of the game, then let the video guys sift through it all. There's no reason why you couldn't set up a 512x512 render target at the top of your scenegraph, change the aspect ratio to that of 720x480 (3:2) so it appears stretched (or if your card supports non-power-of-two textures, then you can do it at native resolution), then dump out each frame to an image file. I don't have any code to hand, but OSG can cope with that easily. When you come to encode it, you can stretch it back to the desired resolution. Oh, and don't forget to make your animation dependent on framerate (i.e. assume you're running at a constant framerate), so the animation runs smoothly at full speed; otherwise you'll pick up any variation in rendering speed. To put it all together, Avid did a home edition of their video editing software that was free to download and is fairly powerful, but I can't find it on their page, maybe they stopped doing it. If you're on Linux, there's a free bit of software for video editing, called Cinelerra (http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3). If you want to automate the process, and you use Linux, Transcode (http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode) will import individual frames and spit out a video in a bunch of different formats. It might take some time to set up to your liking, but it'll happily cope with most things you can throw at it; it'll even mux any audio you might want to use.
John Donovan Sony Computer Entertainment Europe http://www.scee.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/11/2006 00:45:14: > Hello, > > PLEAAAAAAAAASE! > Does anybody have a way to automatically create an mpg or avi from an OSG > fly through? So, that it plays back in real-time? > > Basically, I want to generate videos for demo purposes. > > ie. > loop > update frame > render scene > capture screen > down convert screen capture to acceptable format (720x480) > end loop > concatenate screen captures into video file. > > Recommendations are also welcome. > > Thanks. > > Zach > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users > http://www.openscenegraph.org/ ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This footnote also confirms that this email message has been checked for all known viruses. ********************************************************************** Sony Computer Entertainment Europe _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
