i have made a sketch that when '1' is oressed on the keyboard it captures a video clip with 300 frames and 30fps  from webcam into a .mov file.

i need to then afterwards move this .mov file into a subdirectory called data.
this is needed because i then from this directory read all the files and show them using a python script.

if anyone can help me youre my heroes!

kind regards antima55
ibeams.org

thank you!!!

is it directly to be copied into my sketch or do i have to implement some strange library or something?

well i am sorry but i cant figure it out, here is my code:

<sup>void optag(){
 str2=""+cnt3+cnt2+cnt;
 mm = new MovieMaker(this, width, height, str2 +".mov",30, MovieMaker.H263, MovieMaker.HIGH);
       for(int i=0;i<100;i++){
         m.update();//update the camera view
         m.imageCopy(pixels);//draw image to stag
         updatePixels();
         mm.addFrame();
       }
       mm.finish();
       // File (or directory) to be moved
File file = new File("000");

// Destination directory
File dir = new File("data");

// Move file to new directory
boolean success = file.renameTo(new File(dir, file.getName()));
if (!success) {
   println("not moved");
}

 cnt=cnt+1;
 if(cnt>9){
   cnt=0;
   cnt2=cnt2+1;
   if(cnt2>9){
     cnt2=0;
     cnt3=cnt3+1;
   }
 }
   noLoop();
}</sup>

this function void optag (optag is danish for record) is called every time you press 1 on the numpad.
gives an output file named after 000,001,002,003,004,005 etc. .mov

i have a subdirectory in the sketch folder named data where i want to move to or even better copy to. and if needed overwrite is ok.

antima55 wrote on Jan 7^th, 2010, 4:15am:

"000" won't work because the file is named "000.mov"...
"data" won't work, because it is relative to the location of the class file, somewhere on your temp dir if running from the PDE... I suppose you would use absolute paths, not relative ones.

Note: you can use a single counter and format it with nf() to get leading zeroes...

So, I would write:
Code:

void optag(){
 movieName = nf(cnt, 3) + ".mov";
 mm = new MovieMaker(this, width, height, movieName ,30, MovieMaker.H263, MovieMaker.HIGH);
// [...]
	 mm.finish();
// File (or directory) to be moved
File file = saveFile(movieName);

// Destination file
File dest = new File(savePath("data"), movieName);


// Move file to new directory
boolean success = file.renameTo(dest);
if (!success) {
   println("not moved");
}

    cnt++;
  }
   noLoop();
} 

(untested)
savePath and saveFile are not in the main reference but in the Developers Reference (PApplet page).
They give the path to the location of the sketch.

Quote:

Curiously, there is no built-in facility to copy files in Java, usual way is to open the file as read, open the dest file as write, and transfer bytes in a loop...

There is a WWW button on my messages...
Thanks!