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Capture is a program that allows you to use your video in on a NeXTdimension to grab an animation. It does not implictly have the abilty to sync it's grabbing to any internal or external clocks. Does this sound like a reasonable feature for you to add? -- the app is roughly 385k -- This is a simple animation builder. The idea is neat, the implementation is almost slick, but the end result is generally disappointing. The idea is to hook up to your video in and select a region that you want to grab, then select Grab. After it grabs all the images, it will ask you for a filename and then create the ªanimº directory with each image properly named. Then double-click on the animation and Icon.app or Movie.app can handle the rest. Remember that if you want to do something stupid, something stupid will happen ± keep in mind your system resources. How fast can I grab? Under optimal circumstances this will grab about 6 frames per second. (Optimal = small image area and gobs of memory.) Icon.app only allows for 99 frames, and even a moderate system will grab that. My development system has enough RAM to hold 22 640x480 frames in Icon without swapping, but Capture only manages to grab about 3 frames per second. Thus the output is far from smooth. My sincerest apologies to PAL users. You'll have to use dwrite's and set the following: dwrite Capture MaximumXOrigin xxx dwrite Capture MaximumYOrigin xxx dwrite Capture MaximumWidth xxx dwrite Capture MaximumHeight xxx where 'xxx' is some number useful. The default values are: MaximumXOrigin 590 MaximumYOrigin 492 MaximumWidth 640 MaximumHeight 480 Peter Eisch peter@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu peisch@snac.cfa.org 214 North Seventh Street River Falls, WI 54022-2503 USA VOX: (715) 425-8636 FAX: (715) 425-2999 Remember that this software is provided free and without any guarantees or implied fit for use. It is known to wreak havoc on swapfiles. Further NeXT seems to have broken something in the NXLiveVideo view or the NDdriver with 3.2 which makes me less than confident about it's reliabilty. Check your console if you're in doubt. ** If you're running with 2.1 or 2.2, send me email and I'll send you a project that can be build for that OS. It runs better there anyway. If you have 2.0, catch a clue. **
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.