png movies

Bim wrote on 2/11/2010, 2:17 PM

I bought vegas pro 9 because it lists that it supports png files. My animation software recomends rendering to png files and useing an editor to render movies.
If this is possiblein Studio 9, I have not yet figured it out. At best I can get it to import a single frame.
Can anyone inform me about this?

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Byron K wrote on 2/11/2010, 2:27 PM

Yes, This is very easy to do in V9.

Just go to File, Import Media,

-Navigate to the folder where your image sequence is located (pls note that the images should be in numerical or alphabetical order)

-under File name in the "Files of type", select Image sequence.

That should be it.

rmack350 wrote on 2/11/2010, 3:24 PM

You also need to select the first image in the sequence and then tick the "Open still image sequence" checkbox. Lastly, choose how many images you want to include.

This is to import an image sequence. There's also a quicktime option to create a PNG encoded movie file. We're assuming your software created a PNG sequence (hundreds or thousands of files) but it could have been the .mov file.

Lastly, you say you bought Vegas Pro but you're using Vegas Studio. Is that a typo? They're two different programs.

Rob Mack

Bim wrote on 2/11/2010, 4:15 PM

Hi rmack,

Thanks for picking this up so quickly!
I've got the Movie studio 9 platinum pro pack.
As to my confusion, that is real and not just a typo, however; it does list support for png files on the box and so.....

PerroneFord wrote on 2/11/2010, 5:50 PM

Just because it will support PNG files doesn't mean you can make a movie with them. Vegas Pro 9 (not studio) supports RED. But I can't make a RED file from it. Same with ProRes.

Laurence wrote on 2/11/2010, 9:06 PM

While on this subject, you can also use Quicktime .mov format with PNG lossless compression. I use this quite often because it lets you do alpha layers. Good for animation as well though the Vegas preview of this format isn't very smooth.

rmack350 wrote on 2/11/2010, 9:32 PM

Mov with PNG compression was what I was getting at in my response, but this gets off topic.

I don't know what Studio is capable of. I'd assume it can accept single PNG files on the timeline but I have no idea if it can turn a thousand sequentially numbered PNG files into a single clip. Vegas Pro can do it, though.

So there's a difference between supporting individual PNG files and PNG image sequences.

Maybe Quicktime can do the job for you, but I'm working on a linux system right now and can't check.

Rob

rmack350 wrote on 2/11/2010, 9:48 PM

It looks like Quicktime Pro can export an image sequence for you. I'd try it with the non-pro version first to see if you can save a few bucks. The license for Pro isn't much but free would be better.

I haven't tried this. The reason I think QTime can do the job for you is http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/slideshow.html It's not exactly the best evidence.

Rob