Specifications

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Assembling Individual Frames Some applications, most notably 3D animation software, often save the
resulting frames as individual image files. This may also be the case when
scanning images frame by frame from film. Such a sequence of images must
be converted into a movie file, with the appropriate frame rate, before it can
be incorporated into WATCHOUT. This can be done using, for example,
Adobe After Effects or Apple QuickTime.
The individual images must be saved as files all ending in a frame number. This
number precedes the file name extension: for example, File001.tga,
File002.tga, File003.tga, etc.
Assembling using Adobe After Effects. To assemble a movie from still
images using Adobe After Effects, choose “Import, Footage File” on the File
menu, select the first file in the sequence, and select the “<Format> Sequence”
checkbox. The desired frame rate can be specified in Preferences prior to
importing the images, or can be altered at any time by choosing “Interpret
Footage, Main” on the File menu.
Assembling using QuickTime Pro. Choose “Open Image Sequence”
on the File menu, select the first image to import and specify the desired frame
rate.
◆ NOTE: Many video encoding applications can also encode directly from an
image sequence.