Hello,

I don't know if the program already exists. I've putted a BMP2AVI program
(in command line) on my web site:

http://willsoft.free.fr/

You can download it (source code is included). It's a program to transform
BMP files generated by POVRAY to an non-compressed AVI file. The main goal
is the "interlace" option. Use "Field_Render=On" and "Odd_Field=On". Then
use BMP2AVI to correctly transform in an AVI file suitable for Premiere or
other program.

This program is intented (specially) for high resolution rendering for real
video broadcast output. I work with a team to achieve this in several
monthes; when ready, I will put the video available in this newsgroup.

I wish help somebody.

Best regards,

William.

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> I don't know if the program already exists. I've putted a BMP2AVI program
> (in command line) on my web site:

Yes, such a program already exists. Where, I forget, but I downloaded it a
long time ago and still use it from time to time.

You should provide a screenshot of it on your site.

 - Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

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In povray.animations Slime <slm### [at] slimelandcom> wrote:
> Yes, such a program already exists. Where, I forget, but I downloaded it a
> long time ago and still use it from time to time.

  Are you talking about avicreator?
  The BIGGEST problem with that software is that for some strange reason,
which I can't understand, it loads *all* the images to memory, and then,
and only then, it writes them to an AVI file. This of course means that
if you have 1 gigabyte of images, forget using this program (unless you
have that much memory).

  Btw, here is another program, which creates a raw AVI from raw TGA files:
http://bisqwit.iki.fi/source/animmaker.html

-- 
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N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
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How do you reset follow-ups, I don't think this should be in p.b.a,  just
this NG is sufficient.

-tgq

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On 19 Jul 2002 19:49:04 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>In povray.animations Slime <slm### [at] slimelandcom> wrote:
>> Yes, such a program already exists. Where, I forget, but I downloaded it a
>> long time ago and still use it from time to time.
>
>  Are you talking about avicreator?
>  The BIGGEST problem with that software is that for some strange reason,
>which I can't understand, it loads *all* the images to memory, and then,
>and only then, it writes them to an AVI file. This of course means that
>if you have 1 gigabyte of images, forget using this program (unless you
>have that much memory).
>
>  Btw, here is another program, which creates a raw AVI from raw TGA files:
>http://bisqwit.iki.fi/source/animmaker.html

VirtualDub can also take a sequence of BMP images, and write them to AVI...
Either uncompressed, or compressed with whatever CODEC's you have installed
on your system.

(In my opinion it's the best AVI-encoder out there... Freeware, at
http://www.virtualdub.org/
-- 
Marc van den Dikkenberg
--
The PowerBasic Archives -- http://www.xlsior.org

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>   Are you talking about avicreator?

No, it's called "pjBmp2Avi". And it loads the images one at a time as it
writes =)

(Oh, looks like the windows interface version is called that; the regular
version is just bmp2avi)

Aha! it has a documentation html page with a link to their site. Aw... the
page no longer exists. They offer this email though:
bmp### [at] cherryjamprestelcouk

Looks like I downloaded this back in '98. I have the zip if anyone wants it.
It's main problem is the lack of sound compression. But it's handy for
previewing animations as you make them.

 - Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

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"Marc van den Dikkenberg" <exc### [at] xs4allnl> wrote in message
news:pM44PWIC5DzaC2Im4essTEmZBKs5@4ax.com...
>
> VirtualDub can also take a sequence of BMP images, and write them to
AVI...
> Either uncompressed, or compressed with whatever CODEC's you have
installed
> on your system.

I've never figured out how to get it to do this. I instead use VideoMach to
create the uncompressed AVI first.

Also, will VirtualDub perform the aforementioned Field Rendering operation
to POV's output that William's program will do?

All the best,

Andy Cocker

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"William Rey" <wre### [at] freefr> wrote in message
news:3d3890b8$1@news.povray.org...
> You can download it (source code is included). It's a program to transform
> BMP files generated by POVRAY to an non-compressed AVI file. The main goal
> is the "interlace" option. Use "Field_Render=On" and "Odd_Field=On". Then
> use BMP2AVI to correctly transform in an AVI file suitable for Premiere or
> other program.

Thankyou William. The 'interlace' option will come in very useful.

All the best,

Andy Cocker

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Hello again.

I know BMP2AVI and pjBMP2AVI, I used it to make video non WITHOUT interlace.
The code can be found looking for Google (or others). The adress is no
longer in use.

The main advantage of my program is ONLY the interlace option (easy to
create and ready to use when the AVI file is made). And there is NO
interface because this is a command line program.

As I mentionned, I've written it only for my purposes. If you enjoy it, use
it and make it better if you want.

Good animations,

William.

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