Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Hi Bernd, I'm actually looking for the capacity to take sections of sports video and break down specific techniques into a series of stills for on-paper analysis. Your post illuminates the complexity of dashing off a method of doing so (plodding along would be more like it for me). While the exercise would surely teach me a lot, in this case I'd much rather pay $25.00-50.00 for a fully functioning shareware or commercial program than invest hours and hours perfecting something that will still be imperfect and up to myself to maintain over time. For anyone else who might be interested, the following looks very promising, and for a very reasonable price tag of $26.00. Unfortunately, Stuffit Expander won't unpack it correctly so I can't try it just yet. Waiting to hear back from Tech Support. http://www.xilisoft.com/video-snapshot-mac.html Thank you, though, for your scripts and insight into a solution. Because of people like you and the other responders, this list just can't be beat. Mark On Apr 28, 2010, at 12:23 PM, BNig wrote: Mark, is this one off or do you want to write a stack that does this repeatedly? Is it ok to use apple script, i.e. Mac only? What system version do you use? Do you have Quicktime Pro? this is a little applescript that assumes your quicktime movie does only have one track and that is the movie. It makes a selection in that movie and copies the selection to a new document. Than it deletes all the frames except every fifth. If you have Quicktime Pro you can export these frames as image sequence manually. If you don't have Quicktime Pro I can see if I can provide you with a preset file for exporting the images. You dont need the Pro license to script and export from Quicktime Player. Of course you can do all this from within Rev and take the selection of the movie you manually make and send it as applescript to the Quicktime Player, which opens the movie, selects what you have selected in Rev and does the export. It is just a little more scripting. If you want to go Jaque's way of exporting snapshots you have to make assumptions about the framerate. Rev only gives you the duration and the timescale. Usually quicktime movies have a timescale of 600, but not necessarily so. At a timescale of 600 a duration of 1200 is 2 seconds worth of movie. At a framerate of 25 that would be 50 frames. A single frame would have the duration of 24. At a framerate of 30/sec the duration of an individual frame would be 20. So assume you have a framerate of 30 you would advance your currenttime by 30 to go to the next frame, or by 150 to advance by 5 frames. here is the applescript -- set tStart to 866 set tEnd to 1081 tell application QuickTime Player set tName to name of document 1 tell document tName set the selection start to tStart set the selection end to tEnd copy end tell set tSelectionDocName to mySelection make new document paste document 1 set tSelectionDocName to name of document 1 set tNoOfFrames to the number of frames of track 1 of document tSelectionDocName repeat if tNoOfFrames = 0 then exit repeat if tNoOfFrames mod 5 ≠ 0 then delete frame tNoOfFrames of track 1 of document tSelectionDocName set tNoOfFrames to tNoOfFrames - 1 end repeat end tell it also assumes that the movie you are interested in is the frontmost in Quicktime Player. regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Exporting-movie-clip-to-stills-tp2069329p2073838.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
It all depends on how much you want to customize your workflow, and how much time it might take. Also look into Apple-scriptablity of the app you might purchase. You could use REV for a front end for that. On 29 April 2010 07:14, Mark Swindell mdswind...@cruzio.com wrote: Hi Bernd, I'm actually looking for the capacity to take sections of sports video and break down specific techniques into a series of stills for on-paper analysis. Your post illuminates the complexity of dashing off a method of doing so (plodding along would be more like it for me). While the exercise would surely teach me a lot, in this case I'd much rather pay $25.00-50.00 for a fully functioning shareware or commercial program than invest hours and hours perfecting something that will still be imperfect and up to myself to maintain over time. For anyone else who might be interested, the following looks very promising, and for a very reasonable price tag of $26.00. Unfortunately, Stuffit Expander won't unpack it correctly so I can't try it just yet. Waiting to hear back from Tech Support. http://www.xilisoft.com/video-snapshot-mac.html Thank you, though, for your scripts and insight into a solution. Because of people like you and the other responders, this list just can't be beat. Mark On Apr 28, 2010, at 12:23 PM, BNig wrote: Mark, is this one off or do you want to write a stack that does this repeatedly? Is it ok to use apple script, i.e. Mac only? What system version do you use? Do you have Quicktime Pro? this is a little applescript that assumes your quicktime movie does only have one track and that is the movie. It makes a selection in that movie and copies the selection to a new document. Than it deletes all the frames except every fifth. If you have Quicktime Pro you can export these frames as image sequence manually. If you don't have Quicktime Pro I can see if I can provide you with a preset file for exporting the images. You dont need the Pro license to script and export from Quicktime Player. Of course you can do all this from within Rev and take the selection of the movie you manually make and send it as applescript to the Quicktime Player, which opens the movie, selects what you have selected in Rev and does the export. It is just a little more scripting. If you want to go Jaque's way of exporting snapshots you have to make assumptions about the framerate. Rev only gives you the duration and the timescale. Usually quicktime movies have a timescale of 600, but not necessarily so. At a timescale of 600 a duration of 1200 is 2 seconds worth of movie. At a framerate of 25 that would be 50 frames. A single frame would have the duration of 24. At a framerate of 30/sec the duration of an individual frame would be 20. So assume you have a framerate of 30 you would advance your currenttime by 30 to go to the next frame, or by 150 to advance by 5 frames. here is the applescript -- set tStart to 866 set tEnd to 1081 tell application QuickTime Player set tName to name of document 1 tell document tName set the selection start to tStart set the selection end to tEnd copy end tell set tSelectionDocName to mySelection make new document paste document 1 set tSelectionDocName to name of document 1 set tNoOfFrames to the number of frames of track 1 of document tSelectionDocName repeat if tNoOfFrames = 0 then exit repeat if tNoOfFrames mod 5 ≠ 0 then delete frame tNoOfFrames of track 1 of document tSelectionDocName set tNoOfFrames to tNoOfFrames - 1 end repeat end tell it also assumes that the movie you are interested in is the frontmost in Quicktime Player. regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Exporting-movie-clip-to-stills-tp2069329p2073838.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- - Stephen Barncard Back home in SF ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Hi Mark, I liked the idea of what you were looking for and gave it a shot. type go stack url http://www.berndniggemann.on-rev.com/frameexport/Every5thFrameExport.rev; into the message box and hit return and the stack should show up. or download the zipped version http://berndniggemann.on-rev.com/frameexport/Every5thFrameExport.rev.zip It is only useful on a Mac since it uses applescript. it is tested on MacOsX 10.5.8 and Quicktime player 7.3. It will give you (hopefully :) ) every 5th, 7th, 9th or 11th frame from a selection you make in the player in the stack (adaptable) Wasn't it Mark Twain who said it is a waste of time to write a book since you can buy one for 50 cents anywhere? (g) Even assuming it works for you it might still be a better idea to buy the shareware... regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Exporting-movie-clip-to-stills-tp2069329p2075816.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Mark, I forgot to mention: It should work even without a Quicktime Player Pro license. I did not test that though. regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Exporting-movie-clip-to-stills-tp2069329p2075823.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Mark, this probably isn't exactly what you need, but you might take a look at this website: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasiamac/ --- On Thu, 4/29/10, Mark Swindell mdswind...@cruzio.com wrote: From: Mark Swindell mdswind...@cruzio.com Subject: Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 9:14 AM Hi Bernd, I'm actually looking for the capacity to take sections of sports video and break down specific techniques into a series of stills for on-paper analysis. Your post illuminates the complexity of dashing off a method of doing so (plodding along would be more like it for me). While the exercise would surely teach me a lot, in this case I'd much rather pay $25.00-50.00 for a fully functioning shareware or commercial program than invest hours and hours perfecting something that will still be imperfect and up to myself to maintain over time. For anyone else who might be interested, the following looks very promising, and for a very reasonable price tag of $26.00. Unfortunately, Stuffit Expander won't unpack it correctly so I can't try it just yet. Waiting to hear back from Tech Support. http://www.xilisoft.com/video-snapshot-mac.html Thank you, though, for your scripts and insight into a solution. Because of people like you and the other responders, this list just can't be beat. Mark On Apr 28, 2010, at 12:23 PM, BNig wrote: Mark, is this one off or do you want to write a stack that does this repeatedly? Is it ok to use apple script, i.e. Mac only? What system version do you use? Do you have Quicktime Pro? this is a little applescript that assumes your quicktime movie does only have one track and that is the movie. It makes a selection in that movie and copies the selection to a new document. Than it deletes all the frames except every fifth. If you have Quicktime Pro you can export these frames as image sequence manually. If you don't have Quicktime Pro I can see if I can provide you with a preset file for exporting the images. You dont need the Pro license to script and export from Quicktime Player. Of course you can do all this from within Rev and take the selection of the movie you manually make and send it as applescript to the Quicktime Player, which opens the movie, selects what you have selected in Rev and does the export. It is just a little more scripting. If you want to go Jaque's way of exporting snapshots you have to make assumptions about the framerate. Rev only gives you the duration and the timescale. Usually quicktime movies have a timescale of 600, but not necessarily so. At a timescale of 600 a duration of 1200 is 2 seconds worth of movie. At a framerate of 25 that would be 50 frames. A single frame would have the duration of 24. At a framerate of 30/sec the duration of an individual frame would be 20. So assume you have a framerate of 30 you would advance your currenttime by 30 to go to the next frame, or by 150 to advance by 5 frames. here is the applescript -- set tStart to 866 set tEnd to 1081 tell application QuickTime Player set tName to name of document 1 tell document tName set the selection start to tStart set the selection end to tEnd copy end tell set tSelectionDocName to mySelection make new document paste document 1 set tSelectionDocName to name of document 1 set tNoOfFrames to the number of frames of track 1 of document tSelectionDocName repeat if tNoOfFrames = 0 then exit repeat if tNoOfFrames mod 5 ≠ 0 then delete frame tNoOfFrames of track 1 of document tSelectionDocName set tNoOfFrames to tNoOfFrames - 1 end repeat end tell it also assumes that the movie you are interested in is the frontmost in Quicktime Player. regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Exporting-movie-clip-to-stills-tp2069329p2073838.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
This is very cool! Unfortunately I don't get any stills in the folder on the desktop, don't know where the breakdown might be (the folder is there, though). But the idea is great and shows how easily a solution can be crafted by someone with the chops to do so. I'm using a MacBook Pro OS X 10.6.3 and QuickTime 7 (Pro) or Quicktime X (is it?) for other viewing. Thanks so much for having a go at this. Mark On Apr 29, 2010, at 9:26 AM, BNig wrote: Hi Mark, I liked the idea of what you were looking for and gave it a shot. type go stack url http://www.berndniggemann.on-rev.com/frameexport/Every5thFrameExport.rev; into the message box and hit return and the stack should show up. or download the zipped version http://berndniggemann.on-rev.com/frameexport/Every5thFrameExport.rev.zip It is only useful on a Mac since it uses applescript. it is tested on MacOsX 10.5.8 and Quicktime player 7.3. It will give you (hopefully :) ) every 5th, 7th, 9th or 11th frame from a selection you make in the player in the stack (adaptable) Wasn't it Mark Twain who said it is a waste of time to write a book since you can buy one for 50 cents anywhere? (g) Even assuming it works for you it might still be a better idea to buy the shareware... regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Exporting-movie-clip-to-stills-tp2069329p2075816.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
On 28 Apr 2010, at 17:16, Mark Swindell wrote: I own Quicktime Pro. I don't see this feature in it. Can you point me to how to achieve this as a batch function in QT Pro? Again, in case you missed this reply the first time around. This functionality is built in to QT Pro. Ian On 28 Apr 2010, at 17:52, Ian Wood wrote: 1. QuickTime Pro. Export..., Movie to Image Sequence will do roughly what you want. 2. Remember that a video file is a series of discrete frames. Making a selection and then exporting an image sequence with an arbitrary number of frames or arbitrary framerate is a recipe for a mess... Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Mark, too bad. (I kind of was afraid of that, too many variables...) Right now I can not test it on MacOsX 10.6.x. Does the Quicktime Player with the movie show up at all? It was a nice try, though. Should anybody have tried it I would appreciate a short notice of how it went. regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Exporting-movie-clip-to-stills-tp2069329p2076109.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Hi Ian, I did see it, and you're absolutely right, it does do what you say. The down side is one can't set the parameters of how many frames per second to export (29 or 25, yes, but I only want a clip of x length divided into, let's say, y frames... can't do that). At 25 fps a four second clip yields 100 stills, and wading through all that manually is cumbersome. Thanks again for pointing out what is possible, though. Much appreciated. Mark On Apr 29, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Ian Wood wrote: On 28 Apr 2010, at 17:16, Mark Swindell wrote: I own Quicktime Pro. I don't see this feature in it. Can you point me to how to achieve this as a batch function in QT Pro? Again, in case you missed this reply the first time around. This functionality is built in to QT Pro. Ian On 28 Apr 2010, at 17:52, Ian Wood wrote: 1. QuickTime Pro. Export..., Movie to Image Sequence will do roughly what you want. 2. Remember that a video file is a series of discrete frames. Making a selection and then exporting an image sequence with an arbitrary number of frames or arbitrary framerate is a recipe for a mess... Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
On 29 Apr 2010, at 23:41, Mark Swindell wrote: The down side is one can't set the parameters of how many frames per second to export Click the 'Options...' button in the save dialog, but for best results make sure you pick a frame rate that is a nice divider of the actual video framerate. QT Pro is *enormously* powerful for this kind of thing, but the interface sucks. Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Ian, OMG and gag-me-with-a-spoon and etc etc etc. You're right. This is all, only, and exactly what I wanted. Thanks for your patient explanation of how to achieve it. And all that about Apple being the king of interface? Only for amateurs. The Pro versions? Maybe not so much. Thanks again. This is great news. And an ubercrap interface. Mark On Apr 29, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Ian Wood wrote: On 29 Apr 2010, at 23:41, Mark Swindell wrote: The down side is one can't set the parameters of how many frames per second to export Click the 'Options...' button in the save dialog, but for best results make sure you pick a frame rate that is a nice divider of the actual video framerate. QT Pro is *enormously* powerful for this kind of thing, but the interface sucks. Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Here's a shareware product that does a lot more... BTV PRO -- I just bought a copy. download: http://www.bensoftware.com/btv/dlindex.html info http://www.bensoftware.com/btv/btvproindex.html On 29 April 2010 17:58, Mark Swindell mdswind...@cruzio.com wrote: Ian, OMG and gag-me-with-a-spoon and etc etc etc. You're right. This is all, only, and exactly what I wanted. Thanks for your patient explanation of how to achieve it. And all that about Apple being the king of interface? Only for amateurs. The Pro versions? Maybe not so much. Thanks again. This is great news. And an ubercrap interface. Mark On Apr 29, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Ian Wood wrote: On 29 Apr 2010, at 23:41, Mark Swindell wrote: The down side is one can't set the parameters of how many frames per second to export Click the 'Options...' button in the save dialog, but for best results make sure you pick a frame rate that is a nice divider of the actual video framerate. QT Pro is *enormously* powerful for this kind of thing, but the interface sucks. Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- - Stephen Barncard Back home in SF ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Can anyone point me to a utility that would allow for the following scenario?: Select a section of a .mov file Set a particular number of frames desired for export Have the selected section of the .mov file divided into the above number of frames, and Export a still of each section So let's assume you have a person diving. Select a dive (a five second section of .mov file) Select 10 frames Click export You get 10 evenly spaced stills of the dive (a stop action sequence) exported to the folder of your choice Of course it wouldn't need to work exactly as the above, but this is the idea... to be able to print freeze frame analysis of sports plays Thanks, Mark I'm using Mac, but have Windows installed under Parallels ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Mark, Probably you want to try EnhancedQT external. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer We have updated TwistAWord. Download TwistAWord 1.1 at http://www.twistaword.net Op 28 apr 2010, om 16:45 heeft Mark Swindell het volgende geschreven: Can anyone point me to a utility that would allow for the following scenario?: Select a section of a .mov file Set a particular number of frames desired for export Have the selected section of the .mov file divided into the above number of frames, and Export a still of each section So let's assume you have a person diving. Select a dive (a five second section of .mov file) Select 10 frames Click export You get 10 evenly spaced stills of the dive (a stop action sequence) exported to the folder of your choice Of course it wouldn't need to work exactly as the above, but this is the idea... to be able to print freeze frame analysis of sports plays Thanks, Mark I'm using Mac, but have Windows installed under Parallels ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Thanks, Mark. I should have specified. I'm not looking for a Rev solution, necessarily, but any shareware program (or maybe iMovie has this feature... I haven't fully explored, hoping someone here might save the guesswork and share their experience, if it exists. Mark On Apr 28, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Mark, Probably you want to try EnhancedQT external. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer We have updated TwistAWord. Download TwistAWord 1.1 at http://www.twistaword.net Op 28 apr 2010, om 16:45 heeft Mark Swindell het volgende geschreven: Can anyone point me to a utility that would allow for the following scenario?: Select a section of a .mov file Set a particular number of frames desired for export Have the selected section of the .mov file divided into the above number of frames, and Export a still of each section So let's assume you have a person diving. Select a dive (a five second section of .mov file) Select 10 frames Click export You get 10 evenly spaced stills of the dive (a stop action sequence) exported to the folder of your choice Of course it wouldn't need to work exactly as the above, but this is the idea... to be able to print freeze frame analysis of sports plays Thanks, Mark I'm using Mac, but have Windows installed under Parallels ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Hi Mark, Open a movie in QuickTime, select a frame somewere in the movie, choose Copy from the Edit menu, paste in Word or TextEdit. I know it works in Mac OS X, it might also work in Windows. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer We have updated TwistAWord. Download TwistAWord 1.1 at http://www.twistaword.net Op 28 apr 2010, om 17:30 heeft Mark Swindell het volgende geschreven: Thanks, Mark. I should have specified. I'm not looking for a Rev solution, necessarily, but any shareware program (or maybe iMovie has this feature... I haven't fully explored, hoping someone here might save the guesswork and share their experience, if it exists. Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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Yes, but that's not what I'm asking for. I want something that will divide a section into even increments and export a series of stills as a batch function. I think I described the intent as clearly as I can in my initial post. Thanks Mark On Apr 28, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Mark, Open a movie in QuickTime, select a frame somewere in the movie, choose Copy from the Edit menu, paste in Word or TextEdit. I know it works in Mac OS X, it might also work in Windows. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer We have updated TwistAWord. Download TwistAWord 1.1 at http://www.twistaword.net Op 28 apr 2010, om 17:30 heeft Mark Swindell het volgende geschreven: Thanks, Mark. I should have specified. I'm not looking for a Rev solution, necessarily, but any shareware program (or maybe iMovie has this feature... I haven't fully explored, hoping someone here might save the guesswork and share their experience, if it exists. Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
On 28/04/2010 17:45, Mark Swindell wrote: Can anyone point me to a utility that would allow for the following scenario?: Select a section of a .mov file Set a particular number of frames desired for export Have the selected section of the .mov file divided into the above number of frames, and Export a still of each section So let's assume you have a person diving. Select a dive (a five second section of .mov file) Select 10 frames Click export You get 10 evenly spaced stills of the dive (a stop action sequence) exported to the folder of your choice Of course it wouldn't need to work exactly as the above, but this is the idea... to be able to print freeze frame analysis of sports plays Thanks, Mark I'm using Mac, but have Windows installed under Parallels ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Quicktime Pro costs about $25 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
I own Quicktime Pro. I don't see this feature in it. Can you point me to how to achieve this as a batch function in QT Pro? Thanks, Mark On Apr 28, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 28/04/2010 17:45, Mark Swindell wrote: Can anyone point me to a utility that would allow for the following scenario?: Select a section of a .mov file Set a particular number of frames desired for export Have the selected section of the .mov file divided into the above number of frames, and Export a still of each section So let's assume you have a person diving. Select a dive (a five second section of .mov file) Select 10 frames Click export You get 10 evenly spaced stills of the dive (a stop action sequence) exported to the folder of your choice Of course it wouldn't need to work exactly as the above, but this is the idea... to be able to print freeze frame analysis of sports plays Thanks, Mark I'm using Mac, but have Windows installed under Parallels ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Quicktime Pro costs about $25 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
I found this, which apparently does exactly what I want, but it's $100.00, and a Windows program. Too steep... mine is a purely hobby-related need. http://www.videocharge.com/image_tmp/wizad_thumb.jpg Still accepting alternatives, if any exist. :) Mark On Apr 28, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Mark Swindell wrote: Yes, but that's not what I'm asking for. I want something that will divide a section into even increments and export a series of stills as a batch function. I think I described the intent as clearly as I can in my initial post. Thanks Mark On Apr 28, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Mark, Open a movie in QuickTime, select a frame somewere in the movie, choose Copy from the Edit menu, paste in Word or TextEdit. I know it works in Mac OS X, it might also work in Windows. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer We have updated TwistAWord. Download TwistAWord 1.1 at http://www.twistaword.net Op 28 apr 2010, om 17:30 heeft Mark Swindell het volgende geschreven: Thanks, Mark. I should have specified. I'm not looking for a Rev solution, necessarily, but any shareware program (or maybe iMovie has this feature... I haven't fully explored, hoping someone here might save the guesswork and share their experience, if it exists. Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:45, Mark Swindell wrote: Select a dive (a five second section of .mov file) Select 10 frames Click export You get 10 evenly spaced stills of the dive (a stop action sequence) exported to the folder of your choice 1. QuickTime Pro. Export..., Movie to Image Sequence will do roughly what you want. 2. Remember that a video file is a series of discrete frames. Making a selection and then exporting an image sequence with an arbitrary number of frames or arbitrary framerate is a recipe for a mess... Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Mark Swindell wrote: I found this, which apparently does exactly what I want, but it's $100.00, and a Windows program. Too steep... mine is a purely hobby-related need. http://www.videocharge.com/image_tmp/wizad_thumb.jpg Still accepting alternatives, if any exist. :) To be honest, I think you could write a little Rev utility pretty quickly. Place the player controller at the start of the segment, get the currentTime, put it at the end of the segment, get the curentTime. By subtracting the two and diving that number by the number of images you want, you'll get an even distribution. After that it's just a matter of scripting a loop that sets the currentTime of the movie to the desired frame and taking a snapshot. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
I was hoping someone wouldn't say that. :) Mark On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:01 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Mark Swindell wrote: I found this, which apparently does exactly what I want, but it's $100.00, and a Windows program. Too steep... mine is a purely hobby-related need. http://www.videocharge.com/image_tmp/wizad_thumb.jpg Still accepting alternatives, if any exist. :) To be honest, I think you could write a little Rev utility pretty quickly. Place the player controller at the start of the segment, get the currentTime, put it at the end of the segment, get the curentTime. By subtracting the two and diving that number by the number of images you want, you'll get an even distribution. After that it's just a matter of scripting a loop that sets the currentTime of the movie to the desired frame and taking a snapshot. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Mark Swindell wrote: I was hoping someone wouldn't say that. :) Hey, we're a Rev list -- whaddya expect? :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills
Mark, is this one off or do you want to write a stack that does this repeatedly? Is it ok to use apple script, i.e. Mac only? What system version do you use? Do you have Quicktime Pro? this is a little applescript that assumes your quicktime movie does only have one track and that is the movie. It makes a selection in that movie and copies the selection to a new document. Than it deletes all the frames except every fifth. If you have Quicktime Pro you can export these frames as image sequence manually. If you don't have Quicktime Pro I can see if I can provide you with a preset file for exporting the images. You dont need the Pro license to script and export from Quicktime Player. Of course you can do all this from within Rev and take the selection of the movie you manually make and send it as applescript to the Quicktime Player, which opens the movie, selects what you have selected in Rev and does the export. It is just a little more scripting. If you want to go Jaque's way of exporting snapshots you have to make assumptions about the framerate. Rev only gives you the duration and the timescale. Usually quicktime movies have a timescale of 600, but not necessarily so. At a timescale of 600 a duration of 1200 is 2 seconds worth of movie. At a framerate of 25 that would be 50 frames. A single frame would have the duration of 24. At a framerate of 30/sec the duration of an individual frame would be 20. So assume you have a framerate of 30 you would advance your currenttime by 30 to go to the next frame, or by 150 to advance by 5 frames. here is the applescript -- set tStart to 866 set tEnd to 1081 tell application QuickTime Player set tName to name of document 1 tell document tName set the selection start to tStart set the selection end to tEnd copy end tell set tSelectionDocName to mySelection make new document paste document 1 set tSelectionDocName to name of document 1 set tNoOfFrames to the number of frames of track 1 of document tSelectionDocName repeat if tNoOfFrames = 0 then exit repeat if tNoOfFrames mod 5 ≠ 0 then delete frame tNoOfFrames of track 1 of document tSelectionDocName set tNoOfFrames to tNoOfFrames - 1 end repeat end tell it also assumes that the movie you are interested in is the frontmost in Quicktime Player. regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Exporting-movie-clip-to-stills-tp2069329p2073838.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
