I have an 8-way opteron machine to run some POVRay renders on and it seems
to work well creating frames one at a time.  Does there exist some tool
that will allow me to do the following ?

  ( 1 ) issue 8 povray commands that produce animation frames in
        sets.  So CPU0 works on frames 1 to 32 and then CPU1 will
        work on frames 33 to 64 etc etc.  This is done with the
        +KC and start and end frame number options easily.

  ( 2 ) process all frames into an MPEG4 animation file

My objective here is to take a given POV input file and a well described
camera path based on the clock parameter and have an animation all done
by the computer at the back end.  I am not interested in seeing frames
unless there is a problem.  The only thing I care about is how many
frames in total.

Is there a tool that takes sets of PNG input files and creates MPEG4 ?

Dennis

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