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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: BlackDove on July 23, 2004, 04:40:14 pm

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: BlackDove on July 23, 2004, 04:40:14 pm

I need help with finding a program which can open up video files and extracting frames from it, thus being able to save frames as multiple extentions, one of them being .gif

I've been using Animation Shop for the longest time, but I've got a couple of vids that the program can't find decompressors for, and I need help.

All I need is a product name (or a trial download location, or a site where it can be bought, just please link).

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: beatspete on July 23, 2004, 05:59:06 pm

Yeah good question.  I use adobe animation shop myself, though I can't open much more than 500 frames on my system.

Anyone....?

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: Stryke 9 on July 24, 2004, 12:59:14 am

Premiere works fine for me. I'm sure it's an excellent product in many other ways too, so long as you learn how to use it. I haven't.

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: Singh on July 24, 2004, 02:47:48 am

Virtualdub.

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: Lonestar on July 24, 2004, 01:03:23 pm

Adobe Premiere

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: Thorn on July 24, 2004, 01:11:40 pm

Dub or Premiere.. Dub is 100 times smaller. Go with that :p

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: Carl on July 24, 2004, 02:23:44 pm

but premiere is better. and you can do lots of neat stuff!

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: ChronoReverse on July 24, 2004, 02:35:37 pm

avisynth + any video editing program that can handle uncompressed avis.

Frameserving == the win.

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: BlackDove on July 24, 2004, 05:34:16 pm

I'll try adobe premiere then...

Didn't get the rest, because I don't know if they're "full" names or not, but I'll try search for em anyway.

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: Gortef on July 25, 2004, 04:21:31 am

VirtualDub is nice and light but afaik it saves the image sequence either in .tga or in .bmb format (of course one can copy the frames to clip board one by one)

I think Premiere will be a good choise :nod:

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: BlackDove on July 25, 2004, 10:19:40 am

I tried premiere, but I felt something was kind of off with it. (it's awesome though)

Then I went to the Adobe website and checked the minimum requirements - 256RAM - and I have 128... :lol:

I'll try the other one if I can get ahold of it.

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: karajorma on July 25, 2004, 11:58:55 am

http://www.virtualdub.org/

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: BlackDove on July 25, 2004, 12:30:12 pm

Yeah, tried it, and it seems to be great, doesn't take much RAM, and can open all frames in a video.

I just can't figure out how to take the selection of frames and save them.

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: Lonestar on July 25, 2004, 12:37:34 pm

Windows Movie Maker has import options as well. Its free, and isnt a resource hog like Adobe Premiere, good for what you need it for. For Movie Making it does what it needs to do.

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: DaBuddhaMan on July 25, 2004, 12:39:07 pm

Hi.

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: vyper on July 25, 2004, 12:39:46 pm

You can set start and finish markers for the output.

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: DaBuddhaMan on July 25, 2004, 12:44:28 pm

Yeah......

Title: Okay you image intelligent people, help!
Post by: BlackDove on July 25, 2004, 01:58:34 pm

Cut it out.

Ehh, I tried Windows Media Player - doesn't really do what I want it to do...

Premiere seems best, but I can't

a) select the exact frames I want it to take (when i set "start" and "end" it takes a bunch of frames because I can't get it to just capture two or three)

b) resize frames without losing quality