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Iang
Making screenshots of sketch
Jun 2nd, 2009, 6:09am  
Hi

I wish to record an animation of my sketch but due to the speed at which the sketch runs at, using a screen capture program won't be good enough.

I have decided to dump an uncompressed screenshot on every frame but alas, this bit of knowledge eludes me.

Could someone please point me in the direction to make a screenshot of the canvas with processing?

Thanks
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PhiLho 
Re: Making screenshots of sketch
Reply #1 - Jun 2nd, 2009, 6:13am  
Test of MovieMaker video type is a demonstration on how to do that. The sketch might run slower than normal, but the movie will play at full speed.

Alternative: you can make a Gif animation with http://www.extrapixel.ch/processing/gifAnimation/
I made a sketch using it but I might have not shown it yet.

Or if you just want a bunch of images to process later, use saveFrame() function.
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Iang
Re: Making screenshots of sketch
Reply #2 - Jun 2nd, 2009, 6:23am  

It seems I was searching with the wrong terms.

Thank you for the link, I will look into that when I get onto my development machine.

Regarding my orginal post, I still would like to know how to save screenshots as I like to access to a list of source files so I can combine and test codecs at my leisure with a 3rd party application.
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Iang
Re: Making screenshots of sketch
Reply #3 - Jun 2nd, 2009, 6:26am  
Didn't read your edit until after I replied.

Thank you, saveframe looks like exactly what I was looking for.

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Iang
Re: Making screenshots of sketch
Reply #4 - Jun 2nd, 2009, 11:43am  
I ended up using MovieMaker and the result was perfect when I set it to ANIMATION and HIGH.

Thanks you PhiLho for the reference.
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