Steve wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:22:09 -0600, Bob Hughes
> <omn### [at] hotmailcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote:
> >I use PSP or IrfanView to batch convert images, MS VidEdit for Avi encoding and
> >CMpeg for Mpeg encoding.  The only commercial program I have for animations is
> >VideoWave II, but it's very slow in putting the images together.  So those 4
> >programs are really all I ever need and I only paid about 50$ for Paint Shop
> >Pro.  It can be limiting and not great output, I just don't need anything
> >better, for now anyway.
> >PSP is at www.jasc.com
> >IrfanView is at http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474/
> >MS VidEdit is at
> >http://www.sumrallworks.com/freebies/buttonhole/multimedia/avi/editor.htm
> >CMpeg is at ftp://ftp.crs4.it/mpeg/programs/cmpeg10.zip
> >The cmpeg Windows GUI front-end by Alexander Stols (Sander) is at
> >http://stols.net/
> >and there's also a tga to agif at http://members.xoom.com/amcfarlane/
> >
> >You'd be well to get IrfanView and Cmpeg (and it's frontend) at the very least,
> >and VidEdit to put together Avi.
>
> Great list there Bob, thanks for responding so quickly, but I forgot to mention
> in my post that I'm using Linux.
>
> I had the majority of those tools that you mention when I was using Win95,
> I also used FMP, (I think they started charging for it the day after I
> d/l'd it).  IrFanView is a priceless tool, shame there's nothing like that
> for Unix.

Well, I'm wondering what in IrFanView you like so much. There are many tools for
Unix, and most are quite powerful. Have you looked over all these?


Image Magick (does conversions )
http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html
and it's list of formats is at:
http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/www/formats.html

also "ImageMagick is known to compile and run on virtually any Unix. system and
Linux. It also runs under Windows NT, Windows 95, Macintosh, VMS, and OS2."

I also know that it's convert function is often used in scripts to create mpg's.


The Gimp (better than PSP or Photoshop. For some things. and free)
http://www.gimp.org/



Electric Eyes (ee)
http://www.gnome.org/applist/view.phtml?name=Electric%20Eyes


--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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