Autodesk 64006-051108-9001 User Guide - Page 204
Making Movies Out of Still Images, Optimizing Stills for Encoding
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196 Chapter 8: Encoding Making Movies Out of Still Images You can open a series of images as if it were a single movie. To create a movie from a series of images: 1. Choose Batch > Add Image Sequence. 2. At the prompt, locate a file in the image sequence. 3. Select the file. After you select a file, Cleaner automatically finds all the other similarly named, sequentially numbered files in the same folder and prompts you for the desired frame rate (in frames per second) for your final movie. Note: To import a series of still images as a movie, the image file names must end with sequential numbers, such as 01, 02, 03, etc. There should be no other numbers in the file name. The images are displayed in ascending order. 4. Select the frame rate and click OK. A QuickTime movie is created in the folder that contains the imported images. This is a very small movie that references the original files; it does not contain the stills. You can open this movie with other QuickTime applications such as QuickTime Player, but it may not play smoothly. Do not distribute the reference movie. Use this movie as an intermediate file to process with Cleaner prior to distribution. Use the same settings on this movie as you would on any other source movie. Note: To distribute the reference file, you can save it as a self-contained movie using QuickTime Player. Optimizing Stills for Encoding Optimizing still images for compression is similar to optimizing video. Using Adaptive Noise Reduction, contrast adjustment and Black and White Restore may improve the encoding/ appearance of a photographic still image. For details on using filters and adjustments to optimize video, see "Pre-processing" on page 61. If you scale an image up significantly, you may find that applying the Sharpen filter improves its clarity. As with video, sharpening an image may not improve the encoding, but it may produce more visually appealing results. Experienced users may want to use the General Convolution QuickTime Effect to customize sharpening and other image enhancement effects. Using Dynamic Preview is also useful to determine the effect of your settings on the image's compression. See"Dynamic Preview" on page 205.