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- Tom Coleman (tom@bus.olemiss.edu) wrote:
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- > Is this only the case with the Par's anim format. Has anyone had trouble
- > with loosing files when rendering individual frames to the PAR? Can't you
- > render as stills and then compile those into an animation rather than
- > rendering to an animation file originally? Then, if LW crashes wouldn't all
- > frames to that point be intact on the PAR?
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- If you're going to go with this type of route, you might as well save
- the files to the regular hard drive and then use the PAR to import the
- frames. The PAR drive is a valuable resource of space, and saving an
- anim twice to it is a waste if you have the "normal" space to save the
- frames individually.
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- There are tricks you can play with the PAR, the Amiga, and AREXX as
- well. I believe an acquaintance (sp?) of mine wrote an AREXX script that
- would monitor a specific directory and whenever a new file was created in
- that directory, it would wait 1 minute and then copy the file to the
- PAR's drive. So, all he'd do is start this AREXX program, and then start
- rendering to something like HD0:/foo/animframes and after a good night's
- sleep, he'd have an animation on his PAR with a backup of the frames on
- his hard drive. Pretty slick.
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- Brian
- bdupras@bert.eecs.uic.edu
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