easiest way to render a movie from still images ?

jimpaw · Apr 2011

Hi !,

I want to make a movie from still images and compress the filesize. is max ram player any good for this ?

also i was wondering if anyone knows any good codecs to download for this.

other apps whould work perfect here but something easy.

thanks.

Mark Dygert · Apr 2011

Yea ram player will work for simple tasks like that. Since I have access to AfterEffects I normally like to use that instead, Max2011 and newer comes with "Composite" which does pretty much the same things AE does but with a node based interface.

Here is a thread where I outlined a quick import/export in After Effects and also talked about Composite. There are a few other things to try too if I remember correctly.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1300940

NordicNinja · Apr 2011

I always use Adobe After Effects or Premier. Easy enough if you have access to them.

I always use the H.264 codec for my video files.

PhattyEwok · Apr 2011

You can also compile image seq files in Photoshop but it is a bit clunky

NordicNinja · Apr 2011

Mark Dygert wrote: »

Here is a thread where I outlined a quick import/export in After Effects and also talked about Composite. There are a few other things to try too if I remember correctly.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1300940

Thanks for the link Mark. I'll have to check out Composite. It looks like a great replacement for Combustion which I always felt was a bit unintuitive and clunky.

Warheart · Apr 2011

If you have final frames rendered and all you want to do is stick them together into a movie then I've heard this is great for that (and free): http://www.virtualdub.org/

jimpaw · Apr 2011

okay great, so hoe do i do that in ram player ? , i opened all the files so that i could see the animation inside ram player, and i tlooked really good, but what now ?

jimpaw · Apr 2011

NordicNinja wrote: »

I always use Adobe After Effects or Premier. Easy enough if you have access to them.

I always use the H.264 codec for my video files.

is this codec for 3dsmax ?

jimpaw · Apr 2011

PhattyEwok wrote: »

You can also compile image seq files in Photoshop but it is a bit clunky

okay cool so how do i do that ?

NordicNinja · Apr 2011

jimpaw wrote: »

is this codec for 3dsmax ?

It's a pretty standard codec. You should be able to output video footage in H.264 with any competent software. :thumbup:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC

easiest way to render a movie from still images ?

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