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Sorenson Quicktime Animation Creation with Toast
The following steps will show you how to convert an animation into a medium quality, highly compressed and very portable Quicktime animation using the Sorenson Video 3 codec. The new animation can be played on Windows and Mac with the Quicktime Player, and MPlayer on Linux.
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Create an intermediate animation of your images before using Toast.
Use these commands to create a 10 frames-per-seconds uncompressed Quicktime animation which will be later converted by Toast.ssh onyx1 cd ~/my_images makemovie -o out.mov -f qt -c qt_anim -r 10 -q 1 -p 1 -k 1 `ls -c1 *.png | sort -n`
- Physically go to room 104 at GFDL and login as Guest onto the silver PowerMac G4.
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Open a new shell with the Terminal program and ftp your machine to obtain the
animation created in Step 1. Launch the Terminal program from the dockbar as shown
below, and complete an ftp session similar to the example.
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With your animation file now on the PowerMac workstation, launch Toast from the dockbar,
choose Toast's "Video" tab, and then "Add" your file. You'll be presented with a
File Chooser dialog, so just find your animation; the location of
our example is illustrated below.
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Press the "Export" button to bring up the Save As dialog and button to access the Sorenson
parameters. Specify the output location and a file name ending with the extension .mov
to maximize playback portability. Now make sure "QuickTime Movie" is the Format selected in the list and then press the "Options" button.
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The "Options" button will bring up a "Movie Settings" dialog. From there uncheck "Sound"
and press the Video "Settings..." button.
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Now choose "Sorenson Video 3" from the "Compression Type" list. Set the "Frame Rate"
to "Current", "Key Frames" to "Automatic" and "Data Rate" to "Automatic" (see
screenshot below).
- Press the "Ok" button to leave the "Standard Video Compression Settings" window. Again, click "Ok" to close the "Movie Settings" window, which will bring you back to the "Save as" dialog. Finally press the "Save" button and your animation will be encoded and placed in the location specified earlier.