Exporting an animated sequence as a movie

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Exporting an animated sequence as a movie

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I was wondering whether this was possible inwith LiveCode.

For instance, I have just run off an extremely goofy and basic animation as
an illustration for teaching purposes.

[Just shows a wee boy going for a walk through the long grass.]
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walk.jpg
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And thought how useful it would be if that could be exported as a movie.

Now before anyone points out the obvious:

"You could export snapshots of the window every 5 ticks and then
assemble ALL the frames in a movie using an external editor."

Apart from the fact that that would be fairly tedious
(not that I haven't done that sort of stuff in the past),
would it not be good thing if it could be done directly "just like that"
in LiveCode?
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The stack is here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iif5qa4c92i46 ... e.zip?dl=0
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Re: Exporting an animated sequence as a movie

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Presumably a "dead duck" re macOS 10.15 and macOS 11?

https://www.bluemangolearning.com/livec ... rnals/eqt/
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Re: Exporting an animated sequence as a movie

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richmond62 wrote: Sat Jul 04, 2020 9:54 pmPresumably a "dead duck" re macOS 10.15 and macOS 11?
https://www.bluemangolearning.com/livec ... rnals/eqt/
Yes, Apple completely removed the older QuickTime framework from 10.15.
Too bad... :(
One of the reasons I'm still running 10.14.x.

But maybe will install "Big Sur" once it is at least >= 11.(0)2...
Maybe on another HD, since I have an old customer who still uses LC 5.x :D
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Re: Exporting an animated sequence as a movie

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I'll bet there's a command line tool that can assemble a video clip from a series of images. If there is, it can be directed from LC via the shell function.
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Re: Exporting an animated sequence as a movie

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https://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=25547

This still presupposes the QT stuff has been installed.
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