Le 05/29/07 14:26, scott nous fit lire :
>>> Can't POV-ray make animation itself?
>>
>> POV-Ray is a renderer, not an animation programm.
>>
>> POV-Ray can render the various stills needed for your animation, but
>> it can't take them to generate the video. The reason, is that there
>> are just to many possible formats you may want, or need, to use:
>> animated GIF, animated PNG (MNG, MPG), AVI (many variations), JPG,
>> JPEG, DivX, Xvid, MOV, many others... And the fact that some of those
>> need closed sourced, proprietary software to do the job.
> 
> It would be useful though, if POV could make use of any codecs you have
> installed, like most other programs do that output a series of images
> designed to be animated.  AIUI all the hard work is done by the codec
> (including the options dialog boxes etc) so all POV would need to do is
> present the user with a list of codecs and then use the one that was
> selected.

Think again about continuation option... distributed renders...
changing only part of an animation...
When a render take 2 hours per frame, are you ready to let it
mangled once and forever by an on-the-fly codec ?
Next think about differents OS & architectures.

You need a descent video making program, and a descent renderer...
two descent tools are better than one big monster!

-- 
The superior man understands what is right;
the inferior man understands what will sell.
-- Confucius

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