Animation reference viewer tool

melviso

I wanted to ask if anyone knows of any free video tool that can be used to study reference footage for animation on a frame by frame basics and has the always on top feature like Irfanview or kuardo(great tool btw) which only works with images.

I have vlc but it does frame by frame forward only.

Thanks.

Intermission14

QuickTime player allows for frame by frame scrubbing and if you're looking for an online tool there's http://anilyzer.com/ but it doesn't overlay the frame number which is annoying.

Eric Chadwick

http://www.google.com/search?q=animator+favorite+video+player

melviso

Thanks Intermission14 for the suggestions.

Thanks Eric, downloaded Keyframe MP. Works perfectly.I have been googling, never crossed my mind to type animator. Was googling frame by frame video player.

Jean-Pascal

Another great one is Kinovea. It's made for athletes who want to study their performances frame by frame, so it's perfect for animation references. You can also annotate the video and then import it as an image sequence into maya, so it's useful if you want to track the motion of something for instance.

RN

It's for image references, but as you mentioned Kuadro you might also be interested in PureRef:
http://www.pureref.com/

claydough

Was wondering about this myself...
It seems like 15 years ago there was a new lightweight standalone image sequence/video file viewer that loaded playback into ram for smooth playback... released every other week. Whose popularity seemed to switch from one to another frequently?

I was wondering if anyone has a personal favorite ram preview app for video and what features today might be new n exciting ( fer something so utilitarian? )
Fer now I just use the fCheck utility since it is still always included in the Maya bin directory. ( allowing loading the footage , scrolling or fram by frame with the arrow keys )