Can we export sequence of tga files from Vegas?

prairiedogpics wrote on 3/25/2004, 11:06 AM
I want to experiment with the free "Voodoo Camera Tracker" (for matchmoving purposes), but it only allows the importation of *.tga sequences. Is there anyway in Vegas to EXPORT a sequence of *.tga files from a DV AVI clip? (hopefully uncompressed?)

Thanks,
Dan

FYI: here's the website for Voodoo Camera Tracker:
http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/

Comments

jetdv wrote on 3/25/2004, 11:09 AM
Via scripting, you can get PNG and JPG. You may be able to do something via frameserving to Virtualdub.
cacher wrote on 3/25/2004, 11:29 AM
Daniel:
I'm too experimenting with voodoo (0.5 beta). I skip vegas on this part and go directly to Virtualdub to get the .tga sequence.
Have you figured out why voodoo always reads the scene as being upside down? Also I don't like very much the way the scene is constructed in 3ds, it seems the the scale is way off so all yo see is a bunch of crosses (7000 of them) completely cluttering the view, so it's really hard to position 3d objects this way.
Regardless of the above, I was able to render a small (2 sec) sphere that followed the scene perfectly, so there is still hope.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/25/2004, 11:35 AM
I use tmpgenc to get my TGA sequences. Exporting any type of stills in sequence from Vegas take foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....r..........r...............*ack* (fell on floor from old age).
prairiedogpics wrote on 3/25/2004, 12:04 PM
Cacher,
I haven't even got to the creation of .tga files, so I can't tell you my experience yet....

The HappyFriar,
I'll try TMPGENC for the export. Thanks!
BTW, will these tga files be uncompressed (i.e., will I loose any video quality by exporting to tga files)?

Dan

PS. Guess I'll try VirtualDub, too.
roger_74 wrote on 3/25/2004, 12:46 PM
Render to QuickTime and select TGA in the QuickTime settings.
roger_74 wrote on 3/25/2004, 1:46 PM
Oops, I missed the fact that it had to be actual separate images.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/25/2004, 2:29 PM
the TGA's should be uncompressed.
I don't think you can change that.