Carlo L. Tiana (carlo++at++vision.arc.nasa.gov)
Mon, 13 Jun 1994 10:23:56 -0700
> I hope this question is relevant enought for this list.
> I have a number of snapshots taken from renderings of
> a scene by Performer. THey are all .rgb files.
> I would like to compose a movie from them. THe number is
> high enough (150 frames) that using moviemaker to load
> each frame manually is a little painful. In addition,
> I am trying to use ImageVision Library to process the
> resulting movie, and IL does not seem to recognize the
> movie format moviemaker generates.
> What I am wondering is (in order of decreasing appeal!):
> - are there tools to take a number of .rgb files and
> create an IL movie (and if so are there tools that will
> do the reverse (take an IL movie and split it into a
> number of .rgb files)
> - are three tools that will take a number of .rgb files
> and create a 'moviemaker' format movie (whatever that is)
> (and the reverse would be nice too).
>
> Sorry if this is far off the mark for this list.
> Carlo Tiana
> NASA Ames Research Center
A number of people pointed me to a number of tools, and I myself remembered
the existence of others.
In particular:
/usr/sbin/movie
will take a series of .rgb files and play them as a movie. Not too
flexible otherwise (and I could not find a way to save that movie).
This has a man page.
/usr/sbin/makemovie
more flexible than the above and will let you save the movie. Has a
man page. Movie created can be edited manually with moviemaker.
moviemaster
this was suggested by the list, though it's not on my system so I
can't comment on it.
ilcat/ilmovie
these 2 'demo quality' tools come with the ImageVision library in
source form (in /usr/people/4Dgifts/examples/ImageVision). ilcat
will take a bunch of .rgb (and others) files and make a movie
ImageVision recognizes as such (I have not compared this format to
that of the other tools mentioned), and ilmovie will play this
movie as well as allowing one to perform some image processing
operations on the movie (frame by frame). Unfortunately the
processed movie cannot be saved, although since the source code for
this is available this is a simple addition one can make. These
guys did it for me, since my requirement was to create a movie that
IL would be able to operate on.
Thanks to all for their help.
Carlo Tiana
NASA/Ames Research Center.
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