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I saw a few animations on Youtube like Charlie the Unicorn. They say they are made with Flash Animation. Is this macromedia Flash, Adobe Flash or something else? Does anyone have any suggestions for animation software for the PC or iMac?
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Shouldn't this be in the computer section?
Anyway, I have a similar question. Is there any lightweight/free software that will run on XP that simply allows a bunch of images to be run together as a video file? At the moment, this is jpegs from my webcam doing a 1 per hour of a plant growing, but I'd like to be able to muck about with paint and PovRay images as well. My daughter has suggested a 15 day free trial of a high end package that definiately will do it, but I want a facility that I can use when I want.
I've had a quick look at WindowsMovieMaker, and it will concatenate stills into a movie format file, as long as each lasts at least 0.125 seconds, with a 0.25s transition between them, so not a movie.
I've googled, and the couple of things I've found that sounded potential candidates, my malware Nanny said "ooooh, dodgy sites, stay off those". So I have, for the moment.
I'm trying to force myself to use Python more. Has anybody tried PyMedia, which appears to offer the basic video encode/decode facilties. It would feel a bit like the tail wagging the dog to write something of my own to do what presumably everybody else who does stick-figure animation can do. But that might be a learning opportunity.
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Dr. Slack wrote ...
Shouldn't this be in the computer section?
Anyway, I have a similar question. Is there any lightweight/free software that will run on XP that simply allows a bunch of images to be run together as a video file? At the moment, this is jpegs from my webcam doing a 1 per hour of a plant growing, but I'd like to be able to muck about with paint and PovRay images as well. My daughter has suggested a 15 day free trial of a high end package that definiately will do it, but I want a facility that I can use when I want.
I've had a quick look at WindowsMovieMaker, and it will concatenate stills into a movie format file, as long as each lasts at least 0.125 seconds, with a 0.25s transition between them, so not a movie.
I've googled, and the couple of things I've found that sounded potential candidates, my malware Nanny said "ooooh, dodgy sites, stay off those". So I have, for the moment.
I'm trying to force myself to use Python more. Has anybody tried PyMedia, which appears to offer the basic video encode/decode facilties. It would feel a bit like the tail wagging the dog to write something of my own to do what presumably everybody else who does stick-figure animation can do. But that might be a learning opportunity.
thoughts?
For stop motion and time lapse where the images are either already taken or need less control, then I use MonkeyJam (their site is under maintenance so the download is unavailable, I may have a copy in my software installer repository (yes, I do that with just about everything I install. Has saved me absurd amounts of time when doing clean installs etc) For time lapse specifically with more control and settings, I use VideoCAT
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Thx Grenadier, for virtualDub, does just what I want and no more. It can be very difficult to google the wheat from the chaff at times, especially when the synonym foo is weak. Apologies for the thread hijack Mr Smooth.
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for virtualDub, does just what I want and no more. It can be very difficult to google the wheat from the chaff at times, especially when the synonym foo is weak. Apologies for the thread hijack Mr Smooth.
