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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.
-
- 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...
-
- TEK
-
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 39484 19174 51.4% 05-Sep-91 08:37:58 c/ShowAnim
- 1799 701 61.0% 08-Jul-92 13:28:58 INSTALL
- 478 215 55.0% 03-Mar-92 18:56:32 INSTALL.info
- 17100 12361 27.7% 30-May-91 14:41:28 libs/arp.library
- 10224 5236 48.7% 08-Apr-91 14:46:38 libs/dctv.library
- 22612 11077 51.0% 02-Jul-91 13:14:46 libs/hame.library
- 137216 65587 52.2% 10-Dec-92 18:19:08 Rend24
- 44558 16131 63.7% 10-Dec-92 21:46:02 Rend24.doc
- 477 250 47.5% 03-Mar-92 18:56:32 Rend24.doc.info
- 1642 887 45.9% 03-Mar-92 18:56:34 Rend24.info
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- 275590 131619 52.2% 13-Dec-92 19:34:50 10 files
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