I'm trying to create a rather lengthy animation - like maybe five minutes or
longer.  The problem is I'm low on disk space, so it would be easiest if I
could create one part of the animation at a time, making video files of each
part independantly, and then at the end, making a large video from the
multiple small videos.  SO... does anyone know of a (free, hopefully)
utility that can make videos out of other videos?  MPEG encoding would be
desired, I guess.

-Slime

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Don't know of any Mpeg encoders myself that combine multiple segments,
although Avi can be done like this for sure.  VidEdit is the cheapest way I
know of, because it's free.  It can even use the Mpeg-4 codecs.  I tried
both avi and mpg file extensions and either plays right in MS Media Player
6.4, not sure what else.

Bob

"Slime" <noo### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to create a rather lengthy animation - like maybe five minutes
or
> longer.  The problem is I'm low on disk space, so it would be easiest if I
> could create one part of the animation at a time, making video files of
each
> part independantly, and then at the end, making a large video from the
> multiple small videos.  SO... does anyone know of a (free, hopefully)
> utility that can make videos out of other videos?  MPEG encoding would be
> desired, I guess.
>
> -Slime
>
>

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> multiple small videos.  SO... does anyone know of a (free, hopefully)
> utility that can make videos out of other videos?  MPEG encoding would be
> desired, I guess.

The Berkeley MPEG encoder will allow you to create a Group of Pictures
out of a series of images, then later combine several GOPs into one
large animation.

I don't have a URL handy for this, but I'd bet Ken has one on the links
page at www.povray.org.

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Slime wrote:

> I'm trying to create a rather lengthy animation - like maybe five minutes or
> longer.

    With lots of AA and 320x240 IRTC animation standard on render that should be
20-25Meg abnd 2-3Gigs of scene files. You are running Linux, right? If not how
do you keep the machine running that long?


> The problem is I'm low on disk space, so it would be easiest if I
> could create one part of the animation at a time, making video files of each
> part independantly, and then at the end, making a large video from the
> multiple small videos.  SO... does anyone know of a (free, hopefully)
> utility that can make videos out of other videos?  MPEG encoding would be
> desired, I guess.

    It is on the current 25 most recent links page of povray.org.  But
seriously, go price a D: drive these days. Or a CDRW drive even. I just saw 26G
for $169 as a hard drive. ROM burners are as cheap and $1.50 a blank the most
you can pay for them at 640M each.

    Storage upgrading is now on the order of a good night on the town or five
weeks allowance or simply access to a buddy with the hardware to do it for you.

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Just get mpegjoin-1.1.tar.gz (MPEG-1-Video Joiner) compile it under DOS or
Linux and you can make a big mpeg out of many small mpegs.

usage: c:/utilg/mpegjoin.exe new.mpg first.mpg second.mpg ...

Slime <noo### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:386e56fd@news.povray.org...
> I'm trying to create a rather lengthy animation - like maybe five minutes
or
> longer.  The problem is I'm low on disk space, so it would be easiest if
I
> could create one part of the animation at a time, making video files of
each
> part independantly, and then at the end, making a large video from the
> multiple small videos.  SO... does anyone know of a (free, hopefully)
> utility that can make videos out of other videos?  MPEG encoding would be
> desired, I guess.
>
> -Slime
>
>

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:O This has been around and nobody mentioned it until now? Please tell me
exactly where to get it. Would it be possible for you or someone else to
post it pre-compiled for DOS (DJGPP if possible) on a website to get it?
Pleeeeeease...

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TonyB wrote:
> 
> :O This has been around and nobody mentioned it until now? Please tell me
> exactly where to get it. Would it be possible for you or someone else to
> post it pre-compiled for DOS (DJGPP if possible) on a website to get it?
> Pleeeeeease...

See the read me here for MPEGJoin -
http://extra.newsguy.com/~theprof/Readme.html

And download it here -
http://member.newsguy.com/~theprof/

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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Thank you, Uncle Ken. :)

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