exporting direcotr movie as .avi/.mov

[FLJ]

Hi,

Is there anyway to export a Director movie as a .avi/.mov and not have it go
frame by frame. i.e. i have some frame scripts that loop for a certain
amount of time on a certain image, and when I export it will only take one
snapshot of that frame.

Only work arounds I can see is to author it with my scripts in tact, and
before I export it go through and stretch the frames so 1 sec = 30 frames. I
can't really use screen capturing software because it is too memory
intensive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[JB]

There's a free image file export etra out there some where, you could
write a script to output a snapshot to a numbered image file for each
frame, then use a video utility to convert the image sequence to a video
file, jpeg compressed outout might not be too huge.

[Christoffer Enedahl]

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> Is there anyway to export a Director movie as a .avi/.mov and not have it

go

> frame by frame. i.e. i have some frame scripts that loop for a certain
> amount of time on a certain image, and when I export it will only take one
> snapshot of that frame.
>
> Only work arounds I can see is to author it with my scripts in tact, and
> before I export it go through and stretch the frames so 1 sec = 30 frames.

I

> can't really use screen capturing software because it is too memory
> intensive.

You could use Sharps image xtra to save screenshots of the stage to the disk
at runtime, sure, the game will slow down, but the result will look good
after creating a video of it.
[url]http://www.sharp-software.com[/url]

Here is a script that uses it. You can save in 3 diffrent formats depending
on os. you can set name and
number of chars used in framenaming.
its set to capture in 16bit


property pMember
property pXtra
property pFrame
property pErrCodes
property pName
property pNumChar
property pCompression
property pFileType

on new me

pMember = new(#bitmap)
pMember.name = "ScreenCapturePlaceholder"
pXtra = new (xtra "SharpExport")
pFrame = 0
pName = the moviename
pNumChar = 5
pCompression = 80
pFileType = "png"

pErrCodes = ["destination file can not be written",\
"out of memory","wrong number of args","bad parameter",\
"castmember not found","castmember media not found",\
"castmember is not a bitmap","unsupported bitdepth (JPEG
support is 8 bits or higher)",\
"JPEG compression failed (internal error with JPEG
library)",\
"PNG compression failed (internal error with PNG library)"]

vRect = the stage.Rect
pMember.image = image(vRect.width, vRect.height,16)

return me
end

on SetName me,aName
pName = aName
end

on SetCharNum me,aNum
pNumChar = aNum
end

on SetFileType me, aFileType

case aFileType of
"png","jpg" :
pFileType = aFileType
return true
"bmp":
if the environment.platform contains "mac" then return false --not
supported in macintosh
pFileType = aFileType
return true
"pct":
if the environment.platform contains "win" then return false --not
supported in windows
pFileType = aFileType
return true
End case

return false
end

on SaveFrame me

pFrame = pFrame + 1
vRect = the stage.Rect

pMember.image.copyPixels( (the stage).image, rect(0,0,vRect.width,
vRect.height), rect(0,0,vRect.width, vRect.height))

vStr = string(pFrame)

repeat while vStr.length < pNumChar --Numeric chars
vStr = "0"& vStr
end repeat

vFilePath = the moviepath & pName & vStr & "."& pFileType

case pFileType of
"jpg":
errCode = pXtra.exportJPG(pMember, vFilePath , min(100,max(1,
pCompression)) )

"PNG":
errCode = pXtra.exportPNG(pMember, vFilePath)

"BMP": -- win only
errCode = pXtra.exportBMP(pMember, vFilePath)

"PCT": -- mac only
errCode = pXtra.exportPICT(pMember, vFilePath)
end case

if errCode <> 0 then me.showError(errCode)

end

on showError me, errCode

if the runMode <> "Author" then
alert "An error has occurred while exporting the image." & RETURN & "The
error code is: " & errCode & RETURN & RETURN & "Image export failed."
else
alert "An error has occurred while exporting the image." & RETURN &
RETURN & "The error code is: " & errCode & RETURN & pErrCodes[abs(errCode)]
& RETURN & RETURN & "Image export failed."
end if

end

on terminate me
pMember.erase()
pMember = void
pXtra = void
end