What do you use for pictures to video?
 

What program do you use to render out stills then put them together for video? Any recomendations.

Video mach is free for noncommercial use. And cheap if commercial. No editing capabilities.

Thanx, works great.

Forgot to mention that you can also download free windows media encoder. I still use Video Mach with Standard free DivX codec, better size/ quality IMO.

http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab...rom_/index.php

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...r/default.aspx

WHy not just use Lightwave to do it for you?
A little trick i learnt a while ago before i got After Effects! Just load the image sequence into Lightwave as a background. Adjust the camera and hit render. Super quick as there is no obects! :)

I would use it if compositing needed. Place few screens before camera and use alpha to create compositing layers. I would thou like to have After Effects :)

I use my computer for lightwave and other stuff (halo gaming) and my project right now is taking about 1-7 min to render a frame, with picture i can stop and continue the render whenever I need to, instead of stopping my stystem for 18 hours just for it.

What image formats you're using? 32bit targa carries alpha, and good quality, but greater file size. Any opinions about animation sequence format?

Am I just crazy or can you render it in a higher resolution and resize it so you don't need as much anti-aliasing?

Sounds like a plausable alternative to me.

Of course you'd need more disk space so I suppose it's a trade off.