From: Ian Bishop (idbishop@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: 05/12/2003 03:23:09
I did it by running the screen display out to a video recorder. I then
played the video back into the computer and captured the movie with
MovieMaker. Not very sophisticated, some loss of image quality, and limited
to video resolution but it worked.
>Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 17:50:29 +0800
>From: "Tze Lin @ IVLAB" <TzeLin@ivlab.com.sg>
>Subject: RE: [info-performer] Movie capture of performer simulation
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>You could put a pfSaveImage() in your main simulation loop, that way every
>frame will get saved out to disk. Then you can then compile them into a
>movie using moviemaker, shotmaker or similar.
>
>You should also consider shrinking your rendered frame size because
>(1) your frame rate may drop below usability as the system accesses disk
>each frame
>(2) you may run out of disk space really quickly, depending and
>(3) I don't think you need a large frame size for a web movie...?
>
>
>Cheers,
>Tze Lin
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>From: Bastiaan Naber [mailto:bastiaan@ricardis.tudelft.nl]
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>Hi there,
>
>I have a performer simulation running. The simulation gets its data through a
>socket from some data generator. Performer show the 3D output very nicely.
>I now have the following question.
>
>Is it possible to make a movie of the simulation output ? I know how to take
>snapshots but that is not what I am looking for I really need to capture the
>output as a movie so I can show the movie later instead of running the
>simulation al over again. Besides I want to publish the movie on a website.
>
>Thanks for your time
>Bastiaan
>
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