New Debugmode Frameserver released

John_Cline wrote on 12/27/2007, 3:17 PM
Frameserver v2.5 is now live and available for download. This release adds native support for exporting videos/frames as Image Sequences. In your NLE you can export the video to frameserver and in the frameserver select 'output as Image sequence' to enable this feature. The video frames can be saved as BMP, JPEG, TIFF or PNG files.

www.debugmode.com/frameserver

Comments

TGS wrote on 12/27/2007, 10:29 PM
I love the frameserver.

I have one question. I don't pretend to understand how frameserver works, I just don't get why it doesn't work sometimes.

As I mentioned in another post, I like to save some of my avis to Data DVDs. Well I usually forget, and capture an hour straight and I can't make a Data DVD from that big of a file. So one time I tried to frameserve 18 minutes from a much longer avi into a folder, then make a Data DVD from that. It didn't work.

If he could just add that ability, I'd be in pig heaven. I hate recapturing and I hate rerendering
Radio Guy wrote on 12/28/2007, 5:58 AM
Thanks for the heads up. An amazing and useful gem for free!

Cheers
farss wrote on 12/28/2007, 6:14 AM
I've done this many times and it's a piece of cake, don't know why you're frameserving though.

Create regions, each one 20 minutes long as that's how much will fit on a DVD. Then use Peachrocks Multirenderer to render each region. You could do each render yourself but with Multirenderer you can leave it run overnight. You do have to pay for the Veggie Toolkit but for me it paid for itself the first day I used it.

Bob.
Guy Bruner wrote on 12/28/2007, 6:34 AM
Thanks for the heads up, John!

Guy
Camcorder User Network
rmack350 wrote on 12/28/2007, 8:11 AM
Definitely give the image sequence exporter a try. It's very simple and straightforward.

a couple of notes on it:
--the exporter uses a naming convention of "myimage#.png". You can use multiple "#" marks to control the number of digits in the name and the numbers will be padded out. So "myimage###.png" will give you names like "myimage001.png"

--The exporter uses the frameserver so there will be a signpost file created to export the images from. The signpost avi file should be automatically deleted at the end of the export job.

--The image exporter exports all formats at maximum quality. The are no adjustments available.

The feature gives you a slightly quicker and simpler way to export image sequences independently of your preview settings. You don't need to frameserve out to Virtualdub or Quicktime unless you just want to.

Rob Mack
LReavis wrote on 12/28/2007, 2:35 PM
I tried frame serving a single frame to .PNG format and it works. I might use that capability to replace the SnapshotToClipboard script, which no longer works in V8; but still, quite a bit of messing around just to get a still. Is there no script that would allow me to do this with a simple click of the mouse button - like the old SnapshotToClipboard script would do? could one of the brains on this board create a script using the new frameserver?
rmack350 wrote on 12/28/2007, 3:32 PM
There are times when a script is appropriate and there are times when it isn't. The new addition to the frameserver is perfect when you need image sequences exported without aspect correction. For instance, perhaps you need to export 20 seconds of footage to a 3D modeling program that only accepts the footage if it's 600 still frames in Tiff format. That's what this is for. It does this without any interaction with the preview settings so all stills are full size,and full quality without aspect correction.

You actually can't quite do this with a script, at least not so simply.

With all the "messing around" you're talking about to get a frame onto the clipboard, the simplest way is still to just set the preview window to Full/Best and click the button. A script would automate the change to Full/Best/deinterlaced and then back to Preview/Auto. Trying to do this with the FrameServer is like trying to move a whale off the beach with dynamite. Wrong tool for the job.

I assume there are still good and functional scripts to grab stills in Ed's or Vasst's plugin packs, but there you're paying to have scripts that continue to work in VP8.

Rob Mack