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2D All the way! / Sequence Pictures into a movie

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Gilden
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Posted: 14th Nov 2004 02:42
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I have about 700 pictures that I want to sequence into a movie but I cannot fiqure out an easy way to do it. I don't want to make 700 lines of code to do it. Is there are easier way?
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13e
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Posted: 15th Nov 2004 23:32
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If you're doing it in DB then you're gonna have to load each of the 700 images before you can do anything with them again.

If you wanna play each in sequence after loading then this might work: -



The framerate would entirely depend on your sync rate using this.

You could delete each image after the next one is pasted as well but it'd mean having to load them all over again if you wanted to play it again.



That's all I can think of off the top of my head and I'm not the best programmer in the world either. Hope it helped though.
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pizzaman
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Posted: 16th Nov 2004 00:25
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if all your movie images have names like "movie1.jpg" then you can load them like this



then you can do what 13e said to display them
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dj chainz
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700 images?????!!! That will take a whole lot of RAM!!
The best way would be to pick up some video editing software and compile the images into an AVI in that package - you cannot load images like that but a movie will suffice.

I am the lead programmer at red spark studios
I also have a blog on how to make a game engine
http://www.dbgame.blogspot.com
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13e
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Quote: "700 images?????!!! That will take a whole lot of RAM!!
The best way would be to pick up some video editing software and compile the images into an AVI in that package - you cannot load images like that but a movie will suffice."


That's what I was gonna say in my original post but I just assumed Gilden was gonna work in DB.

dj chainz is right though, putting it into something like that or Flash or even Animation Shop would be easier on the old RAM.

What exactly are you doing it for? And what are you gonna use? If you don't mind me asking?
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Shadow Runna X
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Posted: 18th Nov 2004 02:48
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If you're not gonna use "advanced" movie methods, run the program 13e said and use something like SnagIt to capture it as a movie. (or I could try coding it in PB )
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Gilden
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Thanks guys you have been alot of help. I am using dark basic professional. The reason I used the 700 images instead of an avi, is because the avi took about 70 megs of space while the pictures in jpeg form only took about 5 megs.
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dj chainz
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You should compress all video - wmv and mpeg forms are good but you can use an codec called DivX from www.divx.com for avi

I am the lead programmer at red spark studios
I also have a blog on how to make a game engine
http://www.dbgame.blogspot.com
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Zone Chicken
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Posted: 2nd Dec 2004 01:42
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A free program that use to do such is,

http://www.virtualdub.org/index

Open new file as a image sequence, have all your images named from 0 to 700 then chose your codec to compress, and save to avi.
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