Short: Creates a QuickTime-Movie with many JPEGs in it (+GUI) Author: ALeX Kazik Uploader: ALeX Kazik Version: 2.0 Type: gfx/conv Requires: 68020+, AmigaOS 2.04? (Tested: 3.x) News: ===== It has an own GUI! Support of sound and more picture types. Overview: ========= This litte tool allows you to create a QT-MOV from many pictures. You can directly save a MovieShop project to a MOV, for example. All pictures must have the same size. The pictures will be stored in the MOV without any changes. Supported picture types: -JPEG, 8bit greyscale -JPEG, 24bit color -PNM: pgm, 8bit greyscale, format P5 -PNM: ppm, 24bit color, format P6 Supported sound types: -AIFF, 1-16bits, 100Hz-65kHz, 1/2 Channels Such movies will be very big, if You're using PNM, or it won't be playable on the most computers, if You're using JPEG. So just take the movie, use an (emulated) Macintosh and e.g. the shareware program "DesktopMovieFat" to recompress the movie!! URL: ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/macintosh/leo/quicktime/desktop-movie-150.sit Usage: ====== There are two ways to use JPEG2MOV. -The Command Line Interface (CLI) -The Graphical User Interface (GUI) GUI-Usage: ========== The GUI requires MUI 3.x (tested 3.8)! Just start JPEG2MOV from WorkBench, or from CLI with "gui" as the only parameter. I hope that the GUI is self explainend. For general help, read the CLI section. The CLI-Version is more powerful! CLI-Usage: ========== JPEG2MOV FROM,TO/A,START/N,MAXFRAMES/K/N, SCALEWIDTH=SW/K/N,SCALEHEIGHT=SH/K/N, CROPWIDTH=CW/K/N,CROPHEIGHT=CH/K/N,CROPTOP=CT/K/N,CROPLEFT=CL/K/N, ORIGFPS=OLDFPS/K/N,FPS=NEWFPS/K/N,SEQUENCE=SEQ/K,TIMESCALE/K/N,SPEED/K/N, SOUNDFILE=SND/K,SETFREQ/K/N, READALL/S/K,INFO/S Required Options: ----------------- TO/A = The movie that should be build. An existing file will be overwitten! And you have to specify video and/or sound. Optional Parameters: -------------------- INFO/S = Just show information about the movie, which will be created, but don't do it. Video: ====== Required Options: ----------------- FROM/A = The path and name of the pictures. There are two methods: -Specify an ANSI-C-type-form-string for the pictures, e.g. "JP:pic.%04d.jpeg" (only if you know what you do!!) -Specify the first picture: e.g. "JP:pic.0012.jpeg", the program will automatically convert it to the other format and extract the first picure. To specify the speed of the movie (FPS) You have many options. If the stored pictures have the same speed like the movie, just specify one of this options: ORIGFPS=OLDFPS/K/N = The FramesPerSecond of the images. NEWFPS=FPS/K/N = The FramesPerSecond of the movie. TIMESCALE/K/N,SPEED/K/N = TIMESCALE divides one second into units. SPEED is how long an picture should be displayd (measured in units). Example: TIMESCALE=600, SPEED=10 -> FPS=TIMESCALE/SPEED=60 If the original and the new FPS-rates are different, You have some methods to do that. The skipped pictures won't be stored in the movie. SEQUENCE=SEQ/K = An text which specifies, which picture should be picked "P" (stored in the movie) or skipped "S". Now You can do some combinations: -ORIGFPS and NEWFPS -ORIGFPS and SEQUENCE -NEWFPS and SEQUENCE -TIMESCALE+SPEED and SEQUENCE Tip: switch on INFO an play a little bit with this options. Optional Parameters: -------------------- START/N = Specifies the first picture. It defaults to the number, which will be extracted from the FROM-Option - if there is a number in it - or 1. MAXFRAMES/K/N = Maximum numbers of frames to read/skip. (If Your orig and new FPS-Rate are equal, this means also the numbers of written frames) READALL/S/K = Force to read all pictures, even if there skipped. This option is essential, if you've stored the pics a PIPE and only want to read some of the pictures. Note: If some programms (e.g. MovieShop) don't allow to store to PIPE: (cause it's no filesystem), get the "PipeHandler.lha" from AmiNet. Scale / Crop-Options: --------------------- The program does NOT change the JPEGs, it will only set the needed options in the movie, that tell good QT-Programs that the movie should be shown scaled/cropped. QT and CyberQT do not support them at all. The Windows QT-Player supports scaling. All Mac programs support both! SCALEWIDTH=SW/K/N,SCALEHEIGHT=SH/K/N = The size of the scaled picture. (default: original picture) The picture will be first scaled, than cropped. CROPWIDTH=CW/K/N,CROPHEIGHT=CH/K/N = The size of the cropped picture. (default: scaled picture) CROPTOP=CT/K/N,CROPLEFT=CL/K/N = The offset to the left-top-edge of the cropped picture. (default: the picture will be centered) Audio: ====== Required Options: ----------------- SOUNDFILE=SND/K = The soundfile. Optional Parameters: -------------------- SETFREQ/K/N = If Your soundfile e.g. have the frequency 40099 but You're knowing that that is an error, You can change the rate with this option to 44100 (or any other freq.). Note: The sample will not be resampled, only the signature will be changed. Thats all, have fun!! History: ======== Version 2.0 (26.12.98) - GUI Version 1.9 (22.11.98) - Sound support - PNM support Version 1.0 (29.09.98) - First release Author: ======= ALeX Kazik Stapenhorststr. 81 33615 Bielefeld Germany E-Mail: alex@kazik.de HomePage: http://www.kazik.de/alex ###### ## #### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #### ## ## ###### ### ## #### ## ## ## ## ## ## ###### #### ## ## ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 40716 22549 44.6% 26-Dec-98 11:43:38 JPEG2MOV 2502 1566 37.4% 26-Dec-98 11:58:54 JPEG2MOV.info 6346 2595 59.1% 26-Dec-98 14:26:18 JPEG2MOV.readme -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 49564 26710 46.1% 27-Dec-98 06:11:06 3 files