I can not find in

Magix Video Delux 2008 plus a possibility
to import many *.PNG files generated from
POV for an animated scence

Windows Life Movie Maker
has a good import for pictures,
but can only store *.WMV format

What cheap (Magic was only 25.-EUR)
movie software to make videos from
POV pictures?

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Roland Mösl

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On 19/05/2011 10:39 AM, Roland Mösl wrote:
> What cheap (Magic was only 25.-EUR)
> movie software to make videos from
> POV pictures?

TMpgenc is very cheap, it's free.

http://www.tmpgenc.net/

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     Stephen

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If you can work with the command line:

   http://www.ffmpeg.org/

There also seem to be some GUIs written
around that but I never tried them.

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On 5/19/2011 11:00 AM, Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> If you can work with the command line:
>
> http://www.ffmpeg.org/
>
> There also seem to be some GUIs written
> around that but I never tried them.
Problem with both of these though, unfortunately. ffmpeg seems to cause 
problems with "some" applications. Mind, it may have been with Media 
Player, which is junk anyway, or something, I don't remember.

The audio encoding for TMpgenc is really poor, and they admit it on 
their own site. Its not a huge issue, in most cases, but trying to, for 
example, recode something can result in sync problems, complete loss of 
audio, and other issues. And, in some cases you *might* try to create a 
video, only to find part of the sound missing, or not synced right. If 
you could afford it, buying their updated encoder, which contains fixes 
for those things, as well as more formats (like dvd).

It really annoys me that there isn't anything better out there, which is 
still free. This is especially true when trying to do conversions. I 
spent a lot of time trying to do a simple re-mixing of multiple files 
together and ended up with a) lower video quality, b) sound gaps between 
the segments that where linked, etc. But, these things are, never the 
less, the only stuff out there at the moment, that I could find, which 
wasn't even more limited/poorer.

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Le 20/05/2011 10:40, Patrick Elliott nous fit lire :
> 
> It really annoys me that there isn't anything better out there, which is
> still free.

Well, I refrain from answering sooner, because it is on another system
(and OS holy war are no point): kdenlive is a free non linear movie
editor... for Linux, FreeBSD & Mac OS X.

There is a DVD-live and a VirtualBox images too for the Locked OS.

http://kdenlive.org/user-manual/downloading-and-installing-kdenlive

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Blender got a full video and audio sequence editor builtin, based on FFmpeg.  It
was used for Blender own movies, for instance.

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Sequencer/Usage

Blender 2.5 is still a work in progress, so I suggest the sequencer from the
latest stable 2.49 release.

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On 5/20/2011 8:55 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 20/05/2011 10:40, Patrick Elliott nous fit lire :
>>
>> It really annoys me that there isn't anything better out there, which is
>> still free.
>
> Well, I refrain from answering sooner, because it is on another system
> (and OS holy war are no point): kdenlive is a free non linear movie
> editor... for Linux, FreeBSD&  Mac OS X.
>
> There is a DVD-live and a VirtualBox images too for the Locked OS.
>
> http://kdenlive.org/user-manual/downloading-and-installing-kdenlive
>
I don't doubt there are some on Linux, just annoyed you can't find 
either anything useful under Windows, or ports of something from the 
other side of the computer world. :p

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On 5/20/2011 10:12 AM, nemesis wrote:
> Blender got a full video and audio sequence editor builtin, based on FFmpeg.  It
> was used for Blender own movies, for instance.
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Sequencer/Usage
>
> Blender 2.5 is still a work in progress, so I suggest the sequencer from the
> latest stable 2.49 release.
>
>
>
Hmm. If Blender uses FFmpeg, then it must be someone else I was thinking 
of. There was one used in the past, to zip png into video, which another 
application barfed on, when installed. It had a similar name, but not 
sure what it was.

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roland_M=F6sl?= <fou### [at] pegeorg> wrote:
> I can not find in
>
> Magix Video Delux 2008 plus a possibility
> to import many *.PNG files generated from
> POV for an animated scence
>
> Windows Life Movie Maker
> has a good import for pictures,
> but can only store *.WMV format
>
> What cheap (Magic was only 25.-EUR)
> movie software to make videos from
> POV pictures?
>
> --
> Roland Mösl

I have, in times past, had some success with Bink and Smacker, but I had to use
a separate tool to set the frame rate as Bink only seems to support 24fps.

Currently, my best friend for animation is Mencoder, which is a cross-platform
command-line utility for encoding video, either from a sequence of images or
from one format to another.

Of course, I find the command line in linux to be a great deal more user
friendly than the one in windows, but I like almost everything better than
windows.

Happy hunting,
A.D.B.

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"Anthony D. Baye" <Sha### [at] spamnomorehotmailcom> wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roland_M=F6sl?= <fou### [at] pegeorg> wrote:
> > I can not find in
> >
> > Magix Video Delux 2008 plus a possibility
> > to import many *.PNG files generated from
> > POV for an animated scence
> >
> > Windows Life Movie Maker
> > has a good import for pictures,
> > but can only store *.WMV format
> >
> > What cheap (Magic was only 25.-EUR)
> > movie software to make videos from
> > POV pictures?
> >
> > --
> > Roland Mösl
>
> I have, in times past, had some success with Bink and Smacker, but I had to use
> a separate tool to set the frame rate as Bink only seems to support 24fps.
>
> Currently, my best friend for animation is Mencoder, which is a cross-platform
> command-line utility for encoding video, either from a sequence of images or
> from one format to another.
>
> Of course, I find the command line in linux to be a great deal more user
> friendly than the one in windows, but I like almost everything better than
> windows.
>
> Happy hunting,
> A.D.B.

My bad, it seems that mencoder is not cross-platform.

Regards,
A.D.B.

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On 5/19/2011 4:39 AM, Roland Mösl wrote:
> I can not find in
>
> Magix Video Delux 2008 plus a possibility
> to import many *.PNG files generated from
> POV for an animated scence
>
> Windows Life Movie Maker
> has a good import for pictures,
> but can only store *.WMV format
>
> What cheap (Magic was only 25.-EUR)
> movie software to make videos from
> POV pictures?
>
> --
> Roland Mösl


VirtualDub will make movies out of a series of images.
http://www.virtualdub.org/.

Windows movie maker (at least version 2.1 for windows XP) will export to 
avi if you choose the DV-AVI export format. Movie maker 2.1 can be 
installed on Vista and Windows 7.

If that does not work I would recommend you get something like Pinnacle 
studio or Adobe premiere elements. Although not free it may save you 
time and frustration. Recently I tried to used several free applications 
and unfortunately none of them would work reliably and ended up wasting 
several weeks of work.  Both of these have demos for you to try out 
before buying.

good luck,

FlyerX

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roland_M=F6sl?= <fou### [at] pegeorg> wrote:
> I can not find in
>
> Magix Video Delux 2008 plus a possibility
> to import many *.PNG files generated from
> POV for an animated scence
>
> Windows Life Movie Maker
> has a good import for pictures,
> but can only store *.WMV format
>
> What cheap (Magic was only 25.-EUR)
> movie software to make videos from
> POV pictures?
>
> --
> Roland Mösl
VirtualDub FTW! And it's free.

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On 2011-06-05 02:46, W0RLDBUILDER wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roland_M=F6sl?=<fou### [at] pegeorg>  wrote:
>> I can not find in
>>
>> Magix Video Delux 2008 plus a possibility
>> to import many *.PNG files generated from
>> POV for an animated scence
>>
>> Windows Life Movie Maker
>> has a good import for pictures,
>> but can only store *.WMV format
>>
>> What cheap (Magic was only 25.-EUR)
>> movie software to make videos from
>> POV pictures?
>>
>> --
>> Roland Mösl
> VirtualDub FTW! And it's free.

Just testing different codecs with virtual dub

Cinepak : little quality problems at a window, it's flickering
Intel IYUV : big file but best result so far
Microsoft Video 1 : unuseable

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Roland Mösl

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On 2011-05-19 12:10, Stephen wrote:
> On 19/05/2011 10:39 AM, Roland Mösl wrote:
>> What cheap (Magic was only 25.-EUR)
>> movie software to make videos from
>> POV pictures?
>
> TMpgenc is very cheap, it's free.
>
> http://www.tmpgenc.net/

I can not find out how to make
1280x720 video with this.

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Roland Mösl

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On 2011-05-19 11:39, Roland Mösl wrote:

BTW, my current project has a complete
other dimension.

I have to present a 5 minutes documentation
about my achievements during a prize ceremony.

About 3 of the 5 minutes will be self created
contend rendered by POV.

It's for an international TV broadcast

http://www.gusipeaceprizeinternational.org/2011-laureates.html

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Roland Mösl

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