Hi Mark,
after some tests with virtualdub and avisynth
I came to the conclusion, that I prefer avisynth.
It's fast, no disk space or unnecessary rendering
of avi files or locked frames (virtualdub locks files in use)
and best of them, the possibility to convert the
alpha channel of rendered tga-sequences on the fly
to use it as fade or scope channel in RS.
Every change in the *.avs file is instantly visible
in RS, changes in the image sequences, too.
Only disadvance: The avisynth files are textfiles
with the avisynth commands, no gui ;-)
Somthing like this is the complete script to generate
an "AVS AVI", it's not to complicated in my opinion:
#===================================
ImageSource("FileNamePrefix%03d.tga", 0, 90, 25)
#===================================
If somebody is interested, I'll set up a short howto video.
Matthias
Mark schrieb:
Hi list,
What happened to this useful little (buggy) V3 tool that allowed us to
convert separate frames into AVIs? Something with this functionality is no
longer included in the RS toolkit since V4 (correct me if I'm wrong). I never
render to AVIs directly, always separate frames.
To complicate things more: I can't install the old V3 on Vista. A pity, I
hope Deltaconvert will be another useful feature from the V3 days that will be
re-introduced, like Morphing and even some V7 features. Maybe it has to to do
with licensing problems?
For now, I have to switch on my noisy XP computer and do the conversions on
that one.
Of course there are other solutions, but I started searching a bit for
legal alternatives... FFmpeg appears to be powerful, but you have to compile
the source code yourself! I haven't compiled anything since the Amiga days...
Any tips for freeware conversion tools?
TIA,
-Mark H
