Hi Roger,
I must have a sick version of QuickTime on my system. Reading in 100 frames
from firewire drive using Open Image Sequence takes a very, very long time.
Was hoping I might be able to load these shots into FCP using XML possibly?
Jamie
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Howard [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:53 PM
To: email@hidden
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: image sequence -> QuickTime movie
On Nov 16, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Jamie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since a QuickTime reference file is just basically a text file that
> links to images and sets a playback rate I was hoping that I could
> find a quick way to create QT files for about 150 different sequences?
> Maybe use some scripting? The data is so large (2k, 16bit @ 24fps)
> that using the QuickTime
> 7 Player is taking forever- is there a better way?
Are you asking about avoiding the use of Quicktime Player entirely, or just
avoiding the use of Quicktime Player on a manual basis? Image sequence
importing is trivial with Quicktime Player and AppleScript, but the same
performance issues will apply, you just won't have to sit there and do it
one at a time.
I'd imagine QT Player isn't taking so long to actually create the reference
movie, but rather to open it afterwards (which is why the performance varies
by the total amount of data, not by the number of frames). But regardless of
how you do it, obviously at some point this data will need to be opened.
On easy way that should work fine is to simply generate SMIL files as your
reference movies - basically create a SEQ, populate it with a bunch of IMGs
of short duration. Then you can treat this file as a Quicktime .mov when
you're ready to read/open it. Generating a SMIL is quite easy and can be
nearly instant (just a little text processing).
For instance,
<seq>
<img src="movie1/001.bmp" region="r1" dur="0.1" />
<img src="movie1/002.bmp" region="r1" dur="0.1" />
<img src="movie1/003.bmp" region="r1" dur="0.1" /> </seq>
Just a simple example, YMMV.
-R
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