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IFF - Animation formats Posted on 15-May-2019 0:49:23
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| Hi Everyone,
Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction of more documentation in regards to Saving IFF animations.
The Brilliance Manual for example says this:
Brilliance can save your animation as either an 0p-5, 0p-8 WORD, or 0p-8 LONG formatted file. Op-5 is supported by many older Amiga software packages. Unless you need compatibility with older Amiga software. we recommend that you save your animation files in one of the Op-8 formats.
I don't for example understand the difference between WORD and LONG formats (advantages/disadvantages).
Many thanks in advance.
By the way I'm working on some experimental animations using Brilliance II and Lightwave. This animation is 100 frames, 320x256, 32 colours, also documenting the process for anyone interested (will be on my Patreon site)
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Re: IFF - Animation formats Posted on 15-May-2019 21:25:33
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Re: IFF - Animation formats Posted on 16-May-2019 4:56:31
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Re: IFF - Animation formats Posted on 16-May-2019 5:37:56
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I always wondered if .iff files could be translated to .avi, however, in a pinch I have shot DPaint V animations right off the screen to use with Adobe Premiere or on my Macrosystems Casablanca Avio DV. Also, I never understood why DPaint V still can't interpret a .jpg file? |
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Re: IFF - Animation formats Posted on 16-May-2019 22:28:44
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Re: IFF - Animation formats Posted on 16-May-2019 22:47:53
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Although I would vote for Anim7 longword, here is a program that easily allows you to convert to 5, 7, and 8 to test speed as well as do some other conversions:
MainActor 1_55
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I assume dpaintV suffers the same unfortunate release timing as Brilliance. .jpg was not exactly standard at the time. Lightwave suffered from this as well. A background converter like pegger solved the problem. Quote:
give all your graphic programs the ability to load and save JPEG files automatically. |
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http://aminet.net/search?query=pegger
I'm not sure what else that performs this task is available now.
#6Last edited by number6 on 16-May-2019 at 10:59 PM.
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Re: IFF - Animation formats Posted on 16-May-2019 23:11:46
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Looks great! Would love to learn more about the techniques involved. Keep it up. _________________ "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires the art." John Lasseter, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios |
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