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28 Jul 2024 20:28:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Help - Howto animate from multi-images  
From: Remco de Korte
Date: 27 Sep 1998 20:24:53
Message: <360ED4C6.2A70C686@xs4all.nl>
David Greaves wrote:
> 
> Hi
> I've played with POV and clock and sin() and cos()
> I've seen animation tutorials but none tell me how to take the net
> step....
> 
> I have *hundreds* of images (all .bmp for now...) that I need to join
> up
> to form
> an animation.
> 
> An .fli, an .avi, an .mpg - I don't care - so long as I can play it
> back
> on my NT 4.0 system ;)
> Ideally, I'd like a decent quality animation to wow the cats (they're
> hard to impress you know!!) and a way of generating animated gifs for
> the www.
> 
> Now I've seen references to
> cmpeg. DTA and mainactor (which may download sometime tonight ;)
> but how do people normally do this stuff?
> - and *much* more imprtantly where can I download from?
> ftp.povray.org seems depleted - /pub/povray/utilities only has moray
> and
> breeze in it :(
> 
> David

Perhaps not the best but at least a very simple and fast way is to use
Fast Movie Processor to turn them into AVI-files. It takes a list of
BMPs or TGAs and pastes them together with any codec you choose.
I can't remember where I got it but try Tucows or ZDnet.

Good luck,

Remco de Korte


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