Turning jpegs into a movie???? 8|

Flasher182 wrote on 1/2/2003, 3:14 PM

I have a lot of screen shots of a game demo that I want to turn into a movie, I put all the screen shots into video factory but they are each 5 seconds long. How do I shorten all the screen shots at once to the proper length to get smooth video?????

Thanks,

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Chienworks wrote on 1/2/2003, 3:25 PM

The only way to easily accomplish this in VideoFactory is to muck about with the internal preferences. Therefore, i shall issue the standard warning ...

WARNING! Changing internal preferences can cause VideoFactory to stop working properly. Do this at your own peril as no one will help you if you mess up! If you do mess up, you can return to the default settings by quitting VideoFactory, then holding down the Shift & Ctrl keys while starting it up again. This will reset

Now then, if i haven't terrified you completely ... Click Options, then hold down the Shift key and click Preferences. You'll see a new tab labeled Internal. Click on it. In the blank labeled "Show only prefs containing:" type in still. You will now see one entry named ntDefVideoStillLength, which is in ten-millionths of a second. The default is 50,000,000 for 5 seconds (as you've observed). Change the value to the correct value for the length of each still image. If you want your video to run at 29.97 stills per second, divide 10,000,000 by 29.97 to get 333,667 (give or take a tad). Click OK. Now when you add stills to the timeline they will last 1/29.97th of a second.

Of course, if you've already added all your .jpgs to the project, you'll probably want to remove them and start over from scratch. Sorry about that.

Flasher182 wrote on 1/2/2003, 3:54 PM

o cool it works, thanks >_<

the_harper wrote on 1/4/2003, 1:00 AM

Thanks for this. I find I generally want about 3 seconds for jpegs in a slideshow. Once you have crossfades, any more is excessive IMO.

Rob

discdude wrote on 1/4/2003, 7:34 AM

If you deal with turning still shots into movies all day, you might want to invest in Sony Screenblast's Image Editor (which is really Sonic Foundry's Viscosity). The Image Editor lets you import and export sequences of frames. Also you can set the length of each frame (in ms) either per frame or as a group of frames. Plus you have lots of image editing tools. Overall, the "Image Editor" is no Photoshop, but given that you can open an AVI and edit each frame individually, make this a pretty unique product, especially considering it is only $39.

Check out http://www.screenblast.com