Animate to Paint Action Sequence question

[Gary Freedman]

Hi,

I was hoping that in Still Art Scripts, I could run Action, Animate With Paint Sequence to Movie.

When I do that, the resulting AVI fie is is just a movie of the final frame. It does not show the animation processing as I hoped.

I probably just don't understand how to use this - is there a way to get this result?

Thank you,

Gary

[Synthetik]

Are you talking about the Batch Process with PASeq menu commands, or the normal Animate : Process menu commands?

There is a bug in V55.3 associated with the Batch Process with PASeq menu commands. That is fixed in V5.54.

If you are talking about Animate : Processing with PASeq : to Movie, i'm not aware of any bugs associated with that in V5.5.3.

If you have a source movie loaded while running Animate (button in PASeq or the Action : Animate menu commands ), what the source movie does or doesn't do is a function of how you have your Source Settings configuration flags set up.

I set mine up as follows:

When they are setup this way, the source movie will track wither the PASeq timeline if i press the Animate button in there, or track the Action : Animate output frame processing if i am dumping out an animation.

Another thing to examine is how your PASeq is setup. Let's say you have a single 1 step PASeq that used a Threshold iIpOp effect that was processing the canvas to the canvas. That PASeq ignores the source, so processing a movie file with it, or running animate with it, is not going to do anything based on the movie in the source area.

If you change the IpSource to use the Source Image instead, then the Threshold effects will process what is inside of the source area instead of the canvas.

So if you are running Action : Process menus, the source movie will frame advance.

If you are running Action : Animate, whether the source movie frame advances or not is a function of your Source Settings configuration flags.

[Gary Freedman]

Just saw this - I will check this all out later and let you know how I do, thank you in advance! Gary

[Gary Freedman]

Hi,

I'm probably not asking this right.

As I watch SA process images, I often wish I could get a recording of SA as it does this.

So instead of presenting the viewer with a single finished output file, you would end up with a really tiny .avi that showed the image going through its processing.

Is that possible?

Thank you again,

Gary

[Donna Kuhn]

I think you capture it with a movie stream. 

[Gary Freedman]

Animate> Movie resulted in 100 frames for a single image.

Process> Movie to Movie resulted in a single unanimated avi frame.

I'll keep looking. 

[Synthetik]

Here's a tip on movie streams.

You want to use the 'gated Auto-Draw' movie stream write flag option for what you want to do.  You can setup the Auto-Write timing in the movie tab of the main preferences dialog.

[Gary Freedman]

The tip was very helpful. I used the options shown in my attachment and that seemed to work.

Thank you all for the help!

Gary

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