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- SHORT: Rend24 - A Batch Image Conversion System
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- Rend24 - A Batch Image Conversion System
- Written by Thomas Krehbiel
- Copyright 1991,1992 Thomas Krehbiel
- All Rights Reserved
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- Note that version 1.05 will very likely be the final release. If
- you find it lacking features, you may want to consider purchasing
- ImageFX from GVP; it includes a batch processor very similar to
- Rend24 (coincidentally :) and a wealth of image manipulation
- features.
-
- CHANGES IN 1.05
- AGA support was the biggest priority in this version. To support the
- new modes and such, a somewhat signficant change had to be made in the
- way that the output format was chosen in the front end. The one cycle
- gadget was broken into six cycle gadgets... :)
- Support for processing frames that do not progress by 1 has been added
- (ie. support for processing every other frame, etc.).
- Sorry, 1.05 prefs are not compatible with older versions. You'll have
- to resave your prefs.
-
- INTRODUCTION
- Rend24 was originally written as an excercise in converting
- 24-Bit IFF files into displayable resolutions. At that time,
- I was working with the Toaster's Lightwave 3D often, and without
- the benefit of a single-frame controller, it was somewhat awkward
- getting a displayable animation out of Lightwave. Lightwave is
- capable of saving each frame it generates as a 24-Bit IFF file;
- hence, an idea was born.
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- What I needed was a program that would wait around in the
- background while Lightwave generated a frame. Then, when the
- frame was saved to disk, the program would jump in and convert
- the 24-bit file down to an Amiga-displayable format and pack
- it into an IFF Animation file and return to waiting for the
- next frame.
-
- So I set out to write my own program to do the job. Along the
- way it has acquired a number of useful features which don't relate
- at all to the original plan. You can use it to convert GIF
- files to Amiga format. You can use it to view JPEG files directly.
- You can use it interactively convert VistaPro generated files into
- DCTV animations. This program does a lot for the money...
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- TEK
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