Title: Making zoom videos with color cycling? Post by: thepookster on March 30, 2013, 03:24:44 AM Is anyone aware, or know if it's even possible to create a zoom video with color cycling using Fractal Extreme? I know that I can turn on color cycling when watching the render (for non anti aliased renders), but I can find no way to export to an avi with color cycling enabled.
Any info regarding this would be greatly appreciated, thanks. Title: Re: Making zoom videos with color cycling? Post by: panzerboy on March 30, 2013, 01:56:01 PM It's just possible.
You need to set your graphics card to 8bit or 256 colour mode to render the zoom movie. Then you can play the movie using the fractal extreme movie player and capture the result. You can play the movie in normal (thesedays) 24bit or 32bit colour mode, its looks much better, no dithering. This person seems to have captured the screen with a camera. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX8q1-82fQs I suppose you might be able to capture the screen using a utility. So, yes possible, but not easy. I haven't tried with anti-aliasing or with colour interpolation, wouldn't suprise me if they don't work. Capturing the screen you could also enable the openGL rotation. Title: Re: Making zoom videos with color cycling? Post by: panzerboy on March 31, 2013, 07:06:28 AM I was inspired to make sure I wasn't talking rubbish and create a colour cycling video using Fractal Extreme.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1asDAYm6l0 I used my Smoothed Colouring plugin mostly because the iterations are sparse out on the spike and the cycling effect would be more jumpy. Its an absolute requirement to render the movie in a 256colour or 8bit graphics mode. Change back to 32bit colour when you play/capture the zoom movie. It's best to learn the control keys of the movie player when capturing the live zoom. Ctrl-P to start the zoom, Ctrl-Y to start the colour cycling. I used VLC to capture the desktop, to cut down on the memory bandwidth I set the desktop into 640x480 mode. I also played the zoom at half speed and captured at 15 frames per second. Then altered the frame rate in VirtualDub to be a normal 30 frames per second. Remember VLC was JPEGing each frame it captured. If my screen was a its normal 1680x1050 that would mean a lot of extra pixels encoded for no reason. So if you want to capture HD you may need to slow things down even more. Title: Re: Making zoom videos with color cycling? Post by: thepookster on April 09, 2013, 07:59:04 AM Looks good! Perhaps ill try and find a copy of Fraps (along with a better video card). I hear the new Nvidia 6xx series have built in hardware video encoding, that may come in handy. |