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Anim8or v1.0 Discussion Forum / Feature request - frame indexed file names
« on: August 09, 2021, 11:49:19 am »
Feature request for Steve,
I was wondering if it would be possible for you to add a feature to Anim8or so that if a user entered an image file name like "hero{frame}.png", Animator would understand it should replace "{frame}" with the frame number, to pull in a different image file for each frame. It would be even nicer for video editing if you could enter something like "hero{frame+30}.png" to have the first frame read from "hero30.png", then "hero31.png"... ?
I envisage this working regardless of whether you enter the file name in a dialog box, or into a '.an8' script like:
image {
"C:\\ANIM8OR MANUAL\\waves\\water types\\sky-1286888_960_720_{frame}.jpg" }
The image files could be generated from video by other software. I have written code to do it in Python, but I expect there are software packages available to chop video into image files.
I was wondering if it would be possible for you to add a feature to Anim8or so that if a user entered an image file name like "hero{frame}.png", Animator would understand it should replace "{frame}" with the frame number, to pull in a different image file for each frame. It would be even nicer for video editing if you could enter something like "hero{frame+30}.png" to have the first frame read from "hero30.png", then "hero31.png"... ?
I envisage this working regardless of whether you enter the file name in a dialog box, or into a '.an8' script like:
image {
"C:\\ANIM8OR MANUAL\\waves\\water types\\sky-1286888_960_720_{frame}.jpg" }
The image files could be generated from video by other software. I have written code to do it in Python, but I expect there are software packages available to chop video into image files.