Sean Meighan

General => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: THurrle on August 10, 2014, 03:31:02 AM

Title: Play a video
Post by: THurrle on August 10, 2014, 03:31:02 AM

I converted a video clip but when I try to put it on my mega tree I get nothing but 1 still picture. I have frames from 0-719 all less than 1kb each. How to I get this to work? I watched the video but it is an old one frame number into it. Not sure if there is a new version that shows how it is done.

Also when trying to save the conversion no matter what I try it saves in notebook. Not sure how I saved the original one I have but trying to convert new ones is not working.
Sean??
Thanks
Terry

Title: Re: Play a video
Post by: sean on August 10, 2014, 07:41:19 AM

U must give the movie-1.jpg as the first frame, not movie-0.jpg.

Originally I was looking for the "...-0,jpg" to indicate a movie. Code changed last summer.

Thanks

Title: Re: Play a video
Post by: THurrle on August 10, 2014, 08:06:48 AM

Thanks Sean,

That worked but it just keeps playing that frame over and over not the movie clip. I ow I am just doing it wrong. This what I uploaded to my tree. I am trying to get the entire clip to play.
Terry

Title: Re: Play a video
Post by: sean on August 10, 2014, 03:52:32 PM

Can u post the file name of the fist frame? It must in a dash and a number to be recognized as a movie

Title: Re: Play a video
Post by: THurrle on August 11, 2014, 03:56:21 AM

Is this what you need?

C:\Users\Terry\Documents\Vixen 2.1.1.0\Sequences\Movies\o_71ac42d5772a7954-1.jpg

Title: Re: Play a video
Post by: THurrle on August 11, 2014, 05:38:06 PM

I saw your other video on the other site and it was good. I could not see the box you got when you opened DOS.  I don't understand getting into that part of the computers.I tried to enlarge the screen but it was not readable on my screen. Not sure I will get this video project working at this point but thanks for helping.
Terry

Title: Re: Play a video
Post by: sean on August 11, 2014, 06:04:41 PM

you click the START button on windows &/8, then enter "cmd" into the box at the bottom.

you then run the convert. i had a movie in my videos directory called frozen.mp4
to convert the movie i typed

cd \users\sean\videos
ffmpeg -i frozen.mp4 -s 50x50 f-%d.jpg

now i select the first frame, "f-1.jpg", using the pictures effect

Title: Re: Play a video
Post by: THurrle on August 12, 2014, 06:08:47 AM

Sean,
It took a while but I got it to work. 5200+ frames on this clip. Now I just have to tweak the sequence a bit and it is done. I do appreciate your patience with people like me who don't have a lot of computer knowledge when it comes to doing these type of things on a pc. I have documented all of this information for the future until I get used to doing it.
Terry

Title: Re: Play a video
Post by: sean on August 12, 2014, 08:47:49 AM

Quote from: THurrle on August 12, 2014, 06:08:47 AM

Sean,
It took a while but I got it to work. 5200+ frames on this clip. Now I just have to tweak the sequence a bit and it is done. I do appreciate your patience with people like me who don't have a lot of computer knowledge when it comes to doing these type of things on a pc. I have documented all of this information for the future until I get used to doing it.
Terry

Maybe your documentation can be shared? If it is in a from i can post, ill put it on this website
thanks
sean

Title: Re: Play a video
Post by: THurrle on August 12, 2014, 05:21:58 PM

I just watched the video you made again. I just sed it when I needed to do something. I was able to put it on another computer and could see the screen better. I will try to document what I did. Pretty much what you say to do.