hi all-
not sure if this is the right sub-forum to ask but thought id give it a shot anyway:
i built a drawing program which saves a frame every time i press down to draw something. i was hoping i would be able to then make a sort of animation going through every saved frame and make it into a .mov, .mpg, or .avi. does anyone know of an easier way to do this that manually dragging every single .tif into Premier/Final Cut/Flash?
any help or wisdom is appreciated
steve

Here's one I've been using.

Importing into Quicktime means you can set the frame rate.


Code:

int frame, rate_total; 
int saveonframe=10; // saves every nth frame 
int saveTotal;
  

void loop() {

// code here...

 if(frame ++ % saveonframe == 0) { 
    
	save("prefix-"+saveTotal+++".tga");
	rate_total += framerate(); 
    } 
}


public void stop() {

  println( rate_total / (frame / saveonframe) + " fps");
  super.stop();
  
  }

 

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'super' refers to the class that this class extends.  in this case, 'this class' refers to PApplet, processing's main class, which extends the class Applet.

so 'super.stop()' is calling the stop() method of the Applet class, which basically just says 'stop this applet'.

the only reason mark has this stop() function here is to override PApplet's version with one that prints the total number of frames saved.  it's totally optional.

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without qtpro, you can't export.  qtpro is cheap tho, i think it's like $50.  and easy to get, there should be a 'register' or 'buy' option (or something like that) in Quicktime Player help.

another program you can use is After Effects.  there are definitely others, maybe look on http://tucows.com (PC) or http://versiontracker.com (mac).  can iMovie do this?  i dunno...