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- Short: MovieSetter -> ANIM+audio converter
- Uploader: dancab@iname.com (Daniel Mealha Cabrita)
- Author: dancab@iname.com (Daniel Mealha Cabrita)
- Type: gfx/conv
- Version: 0.3
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- SET2ANIM is a program which converts animations from MovieSetter format
- to IFF ANIM5+SLA (anim with audio), the most common loseless animation
- format used in Amiga computers.
-
- WHY WOULD I WANT TO CONVERT ANIMATIONS FROM MOVIESETTER FORMAT?
-
- quick:
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- 1. - You may want to play them in a modern anim player
- (if you know MoviePlayer, you know exactly what i mean)
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- 2. - You may want to edit them with a modern anim editor
-
- 3. - You may want to convert these animations to MPEG, QuickTime, etc
- video format.
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- MovieSetter was an innovative product which generated files in its very
- own format, dramatically different to conventional whole-frame formats such
- as ANIM, MPEG, QuickTime, etc.
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- Adding to this, the MovieSetter files have several small errors and
- redundances... And add the fact the format isn't opened (all info got by
- reverse engineering the files).
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- It's very complicated to support such format!
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- The idea behind SET2ANIM is to SAVE these animations from inaccessibility
- converting them to a known, popular and well-designed animation format.
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- The IFF ANIM+SLA format is an extension to popular IFF ANIM standard,
- with audio information added with NO modification in conventional ANHD,
- DLTA, etc internal data chunks.
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- Read about ANIM+SLA format in its specific chapter in SET2ANIM
- documentation.
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- The converted ANIM+SLA file may be loaded and played by any 100%
- IFF-compatible animation program (such as Deluxe Paint V). The audio will be
- played if the program supports the ANIM+SLA format (such as BigAnim 4.0,
- freely available in Aminet).
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-
- SET2ANIM needs the following to run:
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- - Amiga OS 3.0 (3.1 or higer strongly recommended)
- - 68000 processor or better (version for 020 too)
- - Any Amiga chipset compatible at OS level with OCS.
- - Near 250Kb of free chip mem.
- - Around 200kb + MovieSetter_animation_size of other mem (contiguous).
- - Storage space where to dump the ANIM file.
-
- - Patience, if you're running in 030 or below.
- - Even more patience if you're not using AGA.
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- .dan
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