I downloaded your front-end as well, but when I try to make the image masks
I always got "filinames not type 8.3" which is not true. I tried everything.
And Cmpeg seems to not read my TGA files (which I obtained with +ft).
jrg.
"Sander" <san### [at] stolscom> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> In article <3b3dec65@news.povray.org>, JRG says...
> > I modelled and animated this metronome yesterday afternoon, just because
I
> > got bored of studying oscillations. I'm completely new in animation (I
read
> > the documentation just yesterday, after modelling the metronome...) so
don't
> > mind if you find this one (which is meant to be a cyclic animation of
> > course) a bit too simple. I have many question too:
> > - Yesterdy I downloaded bmp2avi and cmpeg: how can I create an mpeg
> > animation with frames bigger than 512x320? This seems to be impossible.
> > Cmpeg looks quite hard to use to me, where can I find a simple
> > non-compressed-avi2mpeg convertion program?
> > - What is exactly mpeg2?
> > - I think motion blur in MegaPov is a bit wrong: IMHO it should
"average"
> > the frames between t-dt and t. Now it seems to average all frames
between
> > t-dt/2 and t+dt/2 so that things look like they're vibrating rather than
> > moving. This way motion blur objects anticipate their motion and this
looks
> > quite wrong to me.
> > -Which are the differences between AVI and MPEG?
> >
> > Please, feedback is really appreciated because I've just discovered
POV-Ray
> > animation capabilities and really look forward to making something
serious
> > with them.
> > JRG.
> The animation is one of the few I have seen the last couple of weeks
> that runs perfectly in Windows mediaplayer: good cycling (IYKWIM). It
> makes a very natural impression as a whole.
>
> My Windows frontend for CMPEG can be of help, but only for images of
> sizes 512x320 and smaller :( You'll find it at http://stols.net . It
> uses uncompressed TGA's only.
>
> Your other questions can best be answered by many people here who are
> much more knowledgeable than I am...
> --
> Regards,  Sander

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