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matteo.sistisette
saving frame other than TIF
Aug 5th, 2007, 9:37pm  
Hi,

How do you save a frame in a format other than tif?

The reference is unclear and contradictory.

It says "It is possible to [...] make the choice of saving TIFF, TARGA, PNG, or JPEG files with the ext parameter"
but there's no ext parameter: saveFrame only takes one parameter which is the file name.

I tried with:
saveFrame("something.jpg");

but the image was saved as something.jpg.tif and was actually a tif.
Same thing with gif and png.

Oh, Windows XP here.
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koogy
Re: saving frame other than TIF
Reply #1 - Aug 14th, 2007, 6:56pm  
http://processing.org/reference/saveFrame_.html

saveFrame("frame_#####.png");

the #s will be replaced with the frame index
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matteo.sistisette
Re: saving frame other than TIF
Reply #2 - Aug 14th, 2007, 7:23pm  
koogy wrote on Aug 14th, 2007, 6:56pm:
http://processing.org/reference/saveFrame_.html

saveFrame("frame_#####.png");

the #s will be replaced with the frame index


Already tried that out, didn't work.
Maybe I used the wrong number of "#"s, I'll try it again with 5 #s.
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matteo.sistisette
Re: saving frame other than TIF
Reply #3 - Aug 14th, 2007, 7:31pm  
No, it doesn't work, the file is saved as "frame_0000.png.tif" and it is a tif.

I am using saveFrame() in the "setup" method, not in the "draw" method, since I only want to save one frame.

However, I tried putting the saveFrame within the draw() method, and it doesn't work either (saves files as frame_00000.png.tif, frame_00001.png.tif, etc), all tifs.
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koogy
Re: saving frame other than TIF
Reply #4 - Aug 14th, 2007, 7:37pm  
odd, i was using it last night and it was fine.

was using 0125 and linux.

(the 5 #s just mean i can generate more than 9999 frames, 4 should work just as well)
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koogy
Re: saving frame other than TIF
Reply #5 - Aug 14th, 2007, 7:44pm  
just tried it again with the following on 0125 and WinXP

size(200, 200);
background(0);
stroke(255);
noFill();
smooth();

for(int i = 0; i < 100; i += 20) {
 bezier(90-(i/2.0), 20+i, 210, 10, 220, 150, 120-(i/8.0), 150+(i/4.0));
}

saveFrame("frame.png");

and it was fine, saved a png.
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fry
Re: saving frame other than TIF
Reply #6 - Aug 15th, 2007, 11:10pm  
matteo.sistisette wrote on Aug 14th, 2007, 7:31pm:
No, it doesn't work, the file is saved as "frame_0000.png.tif" and it is a tif.

what platform are you on, and what version of java are you using

if you're using java 1.3, you can't save png and jpg images, only tif and tga files.
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