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| T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. |
| Posted: Oct 8 2007, 05:27 PM |
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Hello There
I tried searching on "ASF Files are not supported" which is the message which is displayed when I try to open Windows Movie Maker files...
Windows Movie Maker was great for short cartoons but, now that I have a few thousand jpegs and tifs, I need something else if I am ever going to finish my cartoon. Windows Movie Maker Forum recommended VirtualDub. I would be grateful of any help (blow by blow instructions if possible).
Apologies if this problem has been addressed elsewhere on this site.
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| T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. |
| Posted: Oct 27 2007, 03:48 PM |
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So the cupboard's bare then? |
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| foxidrive |
| Posted: Oct 27 2007, 04:26 PM |
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Explain what you want to do. |
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| T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. |
| Posted: Oct 28 2007, 02:44 PM |
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I am creating an animated cartoon. Up to now the work consists of almost 3,000 TIFs and Jpegs (numbered sequentially but not finished yet though) - so I need a program which will save them all as a WMV or AVI (or whatever is most suitable/available). Windows Movie Maker was great for saving up 200 images but, for greater than 200, it will not work.
I would be grateful of any help.
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| foxidrive |
| Posted: Oct 29 2007, 12:51 AM |
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I tried it with JPG files of the same resolution after opening the first JPG file, selected full processing mode in the video menu, selected the DivX codec and then saved the AVI.
I'm guessing that you need control of the interframe timing and hopefully someone else will reply wrt that. |
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| T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. |
| Posted: Oct 29 2007, 09:36 PM |
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Just had a go and seemed to be makings some progress -without knowing how to select the codec but ran against a problem as an error message as the images aren't of exactly the same dimensions. I was new to creating animations when I started and there are a few millimeters difference.
Next problem I discovered is I kept getting "unable to detect file" - will VDub open TIFs?
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| phaeron |
| Posted: Oct 30 2007, 06:32 AM |
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No, sorry, VirtualDub doesn't understand Tagged Image File Format right now. Any particular reason you're using TIFF for your images?
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| T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. |
| Posted: Oct 30 2007, 06:03 PM |
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I was using jpegs but the images were blurring and I was advised that, every time a jpeg is saved, the image will degrade a little and I was advised to try TIFs.
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| phaeron |
| Posted: Oct 31 2007, 04:53 AM |
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Ah yes, this is correct -- JPEG is a lossy format. That's also why it gets as much compression as it does. The lossless formats, like TIFF, do not have this problem but the file sizes are much larger than you'd get otherwise.
If you can write out your images in the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format, VirtualDub can accept those.
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| T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. |
| Posted: Oct 31 2007, 05:48 PM |
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Thanks. I expect I'll try converting to PNG then - will be a massive job (thousands of files). I wonder if it is possible to convert in bulk.
All I have to deal with then is that some of the pages are slightly different (a few millimeters) different in size - or is there a way round that too?
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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Oct 31 2007, 05:54 PM |
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There are many image batch converters but I like irfanviewer.
http://www.irfanview.com/
When irfanviewer is opened, under the file tab will be a batch and rename converter option. I've used irfanviewer for years. |
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| T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. |
| Posted: Nov 1 2007, 07:36 PM |
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Thanks for all the advice. I was wondering if my cartoon would be finished by the end of the year (and on youtube - possibly) and I have been working on it since April. With the advice offered on this site I will have a go!(still a lot left to do though)
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| T.F.S.B.I.G.W.S. |
| Posted: Nov 11 2007, 04:53 PM |
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irfanviewer certainly has an excellent slideshow viewer. I have been able to view my cartoon as a slideshow. Well Impressed!
When I have completed preparing the images I'll just have to master the batch conversion and use of VirtualDub. |
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| rjisinspired |
| Posted: Nov 11 2007, 06:10 PM |
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Irfanviewer goes back to 1996 I believe? It's a classic that's for sure. The plugins extend the program and I believe raw images can be processed within it. |
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| DarrellS |
| Posted: Nov 12 2007, 02:09 AM |
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I've used a program called Gif Movie Gear to make cartoons before. There is an import setting to open 24bit picture files instead of 256 color gifs and make an AVI out of your work. You can change the time for each frame (say you have text on a frame that you need more time to read). If you use Photoshop, you can open layered PSD files as multiple frames.
You could put so many files in a folder and then open all the files in that folder and convert to AVI and keep doing this until you've converted all the pictures to clips and then join all the clips with Virtualdub.
BTW, Irfanview is my viewer of choice also. |
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