TGA-style export?

slacy wrote on 6/2/2005, 10:36 PM

Hi all,

I know that Vegas can import a TGA sequence. But can it export a TGA sequence? I'd like to experiment with exporting a small clip to TGA (or a similar sequence format)), then batch-applying effects to the sequence in Photoshop, then reimporting the sequence into Vegas.

Can this be done? Or is this a wrong-headed workflow?

Scott

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Liam_Vegas wrote on 6/2/2005, 11:33 PM

There is a script around somewhere that will export each frame as a still image sequence (jpg or png I think... not TGA though). It's pretty slow... so there are likely other better ways to accomplish the same.

EDIT - it is actually right there in V5 or V6 - Tools - Scripts - the one called "Render Image Sequence"

Spot|DSE wrote on 6/2/2005, 11:48 PM

You can get TGA export if you've got quicktime installed. Look in your Quicktime options when you render. I think there was a VDub plug that did TGA via frameserver, but I can't recall for certain.

slacy wrote on 6/3/2005, 12:04 AM

Hmmmm. I just tried to render to Quicktime using the TGA format, but I still wind up with a .MOV file. I'm obviously doing something wrong.

B_JM wrote on 6/3/2005, 8:06 AM

yea - with qt it is a two step process and VERY time consuming ..

it is slow to export to frames with vegas - but there is a very fast way to do it (to targas) , which i do all the time ..

use the satish frame server and frame serve to virtualdubMOD

in virtualdubMOD , save to targas (it is built in, no plug in required) ...

if you need to do any resizing at the same time - do it in virtualdubMOD as the quality is much better and it is also much quicker than in vegas ..