Conference hydra::amiga_v1

>   	Capture
>    	(Hash Enterprises)
>    	Amigazone file # 14563
 
I'm interested in this one too, if anyone gets a hold of it.
I need it to change Movie format to IFF anim format for Animagic.

Thanks,
Dave

Jeese, I haven't been on PLINK for awhile... I had more fun hacking
around TELENET  :-)


WJG::AMIGA:CAPTURE.LZH

Have Fun!

John

    
    
    
    				Thanks John....
    

     Thanks from me too.
     Dave

> WJG::AMIGA:CAPTURE.LZH

Sorry guys! I screwed up!

It's CAPTURE.ARC.  I renamed it on WJG::.


John

    Anyone have a problem using this?
    I ran the program and got a "can't find node"? error.
    Seems like it expects you to have a hard drive or something....
    						
    								Ed
    

> Anyone have a problem using this?
>    I ran the program and got a "can't find node"? error.
 Yeah, the program was a bust.  Anyone have a clue as to what a node
 means for a program that is trying to grab each frame of a playing
 animation?  Is node part of the anim "standard", or is this a device lookup
 problem, as Ed suggested.  I know people in the computer business never
 use the same term to mean entirely different things in different contexts...
 ;-)  This program definitely makes assumptions without documentation
 as to what they are. I'm dissapointed. 
 Dave

    Just thought I'd keep you updated on my progress.
    I first copied capture to my c: directory in DF0:
    I also got my resolution finder to work....
    I then tried capturing the animation (SC4Djr) to the same disk I was
    reading it off of (DF1:), this didn't work (can't find node error).
    I then tried to copy c: to ram: and capture Df1: DF0:, no luck.
    I then tried to define the save path as Empty: (c: back to df0:)..
    and I got the screen flash (what your suppose to see), but the program
    wouldn't write to disk.
    
    					Oh well, I'll keep trying;
    								Ed
    

     I just recieved a supra 8.0 board with 2 meg installed last night.
     It's great!
     Now that I have a little elbow room in memory, I'll try this program
     again.
    								Ed
    

     I finally got this program to work for me, here's what I discovered:
    
    	1. it wasn't the memory that was lousing me up...., this program 
    doesn't like either "ARP" or "Power Packer" or both.
           I felt pretty stupid, when it finally dawned on me to try an 
    un-modified workbench on it.
       
    	2. It works pretty smoothly from then on, creating a directory on 
     the disk I specified in the setup, and saving the frames as 1,2,3,....
     and so on.
    
    	3. Major upset, only the first 2 files are readable Iff's, the rest
     are specially packed "Hash" format and seem to need one of the Hash
    programs ($) to translate it into standard IFF formats.
    
    	4. I have a minor beef with the misleading article that stated that
    this saved "anim" as standard iff's.
    
    	Guess I"ll have to spend some $$$ for a comercial translation
    program.
    
    								Ed
    					

    re .10
    
    	I have a HASH to IFF converter and would be willing to convert
    a few for you.
    
    
    		Steve Peters
    

    re: -1
    
    Shure, I'll upload some as soon as get a chance, Thanks!
    
    	By the way... 
    Is it a public-domain or a comercial product that you'll use?
     I'm curious, to see if thier is something like Syndesis(sp?)
    Interchange for animation formats... 
    
     I have Movie Setter,DPaint3,Photon Paint II, as well as DVideo III.
     Although I can convert the pictures to one another easily enough. I'd
     like to be able to do the same for Animations.
       I'd also like to be able to switch resolutions of IFF Animations
    without having to break em down into single picture format to convert
    em, then put it back together again.
    
    	Is there such a beast?
    
    						Thanks again;
    								Ed
     

    re: -3
    
    	I may have been hasty in my saying that the Capture utility saves
    in a "special" hash format.
    	I finaly got ahold of "Animation Bridge" off of one of the recent 
    fred fish disks.
    	This seems like a pretty nice utility for converting Animations to
    different formats.
    	It seems that it says that the animation I was trying to
    convert, "Jessica" (movie format, from Roger Rabit) one of the older
    Anims on the net, is a "Mangled IFF File".
    	It's strange because the animation seems to play fine by itself.
        
     Anyway, I'll try Capture on some "Movie Setter" files and on some of 
     my own Anims to see if it saves in a standard series of iffs.
    
    	  I appologize for my hasty review on Capture.
    
    								Ed
    p.s. Anyone else out there try Animation Bridge?