Topic: Export

Well i was wondering if Sijmen is going to make an export where you can export to .MOV, .AVI, or .MP4 or something like that instead of having Animated .GIFs because Animated .GIFs make the animation have a terrible quality. smile

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I've got my hands on Dimp Preview 1.2 and I can tell you for one that there is a "Export to Quicktime" feature that exports into a .mp4 format. You'll have the option of various resolutions (?x?) and I think I can tell you there's most definitely going to be a YouTube-native resolution and an HD resolution.

~ Sean

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To avoid any confusion, I send out testing versions to Sean once in a while to get some feedback and see how it works on other machines (like speed etc). I'm not delaying releases.

I'm currently wrapping up 1.2 and it's got export plus a little bonus. Here are two screenshots of the export function:

http://i40.tinypic.com/2hyx72b.png

http://i41.tinypic.com/zv2z51.png

It outputs as MP4. The VGA resolution is 640x360, 480p is 854x480, and 720p is 1280x720.

Also there are some bugfixes etc, but you'll see those in the release notes when it's done.

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Thats GREAT! big_smile I Have one more question. Is the ghost feature going to be in 1.2? hmm

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I cannot wait for 1.2!
finnaly,showing you all my uber animations!

•*°'`*•*`‘°*•*°'`*•*°'`*•Zenmen5•*°'`*•*°'`*•*°'`*•*°'`*•
Then the Z and the M shalt endeth with the letters EN and the second EN will be followed by five!-Me
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/2733/93888415.jpg

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Macfullmetal360 wrote:

Thats GREAT! big_smile I Have one more question. Is the ghost feature going to be in 1.2? hmm

Nope, sorry.

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When? sad

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when you realize you can scroll through the animation to see what you did when

•*°'`*•*`‘°*•*°'`*•*°'`*•Zenmen5•*°'`*•*°'`*•*°'`*•*°'`*•
Then the Z and the M shalt endeth with the letters EN and the second EN will be followed by five!-Me
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/2733/93888415.jpg

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Another thing is that you can already use guidelines for most things, like remembering where the floor was, or a wall. The ghosts are coming though. (ic dead ppl! wink)

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Ok smile

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For my contribution to the current competition, I don't see any way I could have done it without the custom grids. I believe (I might stand alone here) that the "ghost" feature is not of highest priority as it is of greater importance when dealing with frames (such as Pivot) than keyframes (Dimp).

But for ease-of-use, it's something that is largely likely to feature.

Glad to know I wasn't going to get in trouble for talking of pre-release information. smile
I also notice a 4th exporting resolution, looks great. wink

Edit:

Sijmen wrote:

To avoid any confusion, I send out testing versions to Sean[...]

Oops, forgot to mention in this thread (but I did on the other I mentioned Dimp Preview 1.2) that I in-fact only have the un-finished 1.2 and Sijmen is (as he mentioned) not delaying releases.

~ Sean

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So is the full release only going to have multiple stick figures? hmm

Last edited by Macfullmetal360 (2009-01-08 05:26:49)

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Where do you get that idea from? Dimp is still in great development and far from "full release".

~ Sean

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But yes, it will smile

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No - Sijmen, you failed to read his post correctly, he said will it have only that feature added.

~ Sean

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Ah, I see. No it'll have more.

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What i meant was the full release going to have that feature but not in the preview versions

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Yes, that is the case. It will be in the full version but not in the preview.

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But Dimp 1.0 should contain various other planned features that will not hit Dimp Preview either. wink

~ Sean

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I think we have an understanding here. wink

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Is there still demand for GIF? I'm not sure whether it's useful for any but the simplest animations.

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Sijmen wrote:

Is there still demand for GIF? I'm not sure whether it's useful for any but the simplest animations.

no gifs arent good give bad quality

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Re: Export

Macfullmetal360 wrote:

Well i was wondering if Sijmen is going to make an export where you can export to .MOV, .AVI, or .MP4 or something like that instead of having Animated .GIFs because Animated .GIFs make the animation have a terrible quality. smile


you can in 1.10. you can make them .MP4's

From cj81499

Re: Export

Also note that these .MP4s are optimised for YouTube smile