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A fun companion for your
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Dogwaffle
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Dogwaffle
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Save
Animation as Sequence
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Ok,
Dogwaffle is pretty much done now. You're ready to save the animation
in a format that will work for importing to other applications such as
Quicktime Pro, VirtualDub or of course: Irfanview.
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Simply open the Animation menu and select
Animation > Save
sequence...
Many programs can load image
sequences and reconstruct animations from them or convert them to other
formats.
PD Pro will open a file navigator and offer several formats to save to.
If you're concerned about getting a small file size, use Jpeg.
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In PD Pro 4 and most prior versions, you can save to several formats.
The default and preferred format is called 'Default Targa'. PD Pro has
its own code to save to that format. The other formats are derived from
it: after saving temporarily to a file (named TempTga.tga), Dogwaffle
runs a converter (called convert.exe) which uses the ImageMagick image
libraries to convert to other formats as specified. One such format is
Targa too, so you might of course prefer to use just the Default Targa
format in that case since that doesn't need to go through the
additional conversion tool invocation, and is therefore significantly
faster.
Select Jpeg (Jpg) in this case.
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In addition to the type of the file you should also provide a basename,
to which the program will add a counter: _0000, _0001, _0002, etc...
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Use for example
'frame' as the base name. The resulting image files for this sequence
would then turn out to be
frame_0000.jpg,
frame_0001.jpg,
frame_0002.jpg,
frame_0003.jpg,
etc...
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Some
formats will need additional information. In the case of Jpeg, a
compression quality is needed, which defaults to 75 on a scale from 0
to 100.
Click OK and you're all set.
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If at the end of the conversion the Status bar doesn't disapear for
good, you can click the red [x] in its upper-right corner to dismiss it.
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next: on to
Irfanview to make the slideshow and save as screen saver
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