I was trying /sc[500,500] - but that didn't work.
After reading below /sc500,500 works great!

Thanks for everyone's help!  Now I can do very small framed animations,
batch convert to resize, batch run cmpeg and I'm there!

--
Mike

wk: mik### [at] pyxiscom  www.pyxis.com
hm: mwe### [at] sciticom  www.geocities.com/mikepweber


"Bob Hughes" <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
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> Uh, ignore my first reply here, I was pretty sure I knew the answer.
> I know it partially anyhow.  It is like you thought for the new x and y
> dimensions.  I was almost positive the third number was for color
> depth.
> I still have DTA on this machine so I checked on that.
> I could only get the two numbers to be used meaningfully.  What the
> third optional number is I couldn't say.  I managed to do a:
>
> dta test.tga /iscaled.tga /ft /sc,8  (but not without comma)
>
> to be without error except the saved targa wasn't anything.
> Trying:
>
> dta test.tga /iscaled.tga /ft /sc320,240,8
>
> fails, so it appears to be neither color depth nor predefined resolution.
>
> Bob
>
> "Mike Weber" <mik### [at] pyxiscom> wrote in message
news:390f33ee$1@news.povray.org...
> | I use cmpeg to compose the animation from a batch file.
> | I see that DTA can:
> | (Geometrical transformation options)
> |     /SC[#,#[,#]]   Rescale pictures to screen res. or specified size
> |     /SCF[#,#[,#]]  Fast, but dumb, rescale
> |
> | but how do you use that?
> | /SC[newx, newy]
> |
> | anyone know?
> |
> |
> |
> |
> | --
> | Mike
> |
> | wk: mik### [at] pyxiscom  www.pyxis.com
> | hm: mwe### [at] sciticom  www.geocities.com/mikepweber
> |
> |
> | "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
> | news:390f25ff@news.povray.org...
> | > In article <390f1aa8$1@news.povray.org> , "Mike Weber"
> | > <mik### [at] pyxiscom> wrote:
> | >
> | > > And that's what I did.  Now I understand - it will go from 8, then
to 1,
> | > > instead of 8,4,2,1 - hmmm - too bad - that's not what I want to do.
Its
> | for
> | > > an animation of 450 frames - and to render a very small image, then
> | resize
> | > > it larger for 450 frames is a lot of work.  I guess letting it run
> | overnight
> | > > is what I need to do....
> | >
> | > Well, this is a different problem: You can try to use QuickTime Movie
> | Player
> | > (Pro edition) to generate an animation out of the sequence of images
> | > automatically. You can the scale the whole movie up at once.
> | >
> | >
> | >      Thorsten
> |
> |
>
>

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