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Old 14-07-2004, 12:31 AM   #1
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Default 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.
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Old 14-07-2004, 03:47 PM   #2
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Video mach is free for noncommercial use. And cheap if commercial. No editing capabilities.
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Old 14-07-2004, 08:17 PM   #3
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Thanx, works great.
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Old 15-07-2004, 05:58 AM   #4
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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
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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!
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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
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Originally posted by Shawry
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 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.
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Old 15-07-2004, 09:39 PM   #8
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What image formats you're using? 32bit targa carries alpha, and good quality, but greater file size. Any opinions about animation sequence format?
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Old 16-07-2004, 12:57 AM   #9
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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?
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Old 16-07-2004, 04:45 AM   #10
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Sounds like a plausable alternative to me.

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