Re: A trailer from a movie online as an ansi-animation

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 01:36:19 GMT, Linepithema humile
<an...@accuser37.apu.edu> wrote:

>WOah! Impressive! How did you actually convert it to ANSI? :)

In case someone misses/missed the first time, here are the instructions
again:

The programs I used:
Irfanview (for extracting/scaling/converting to png [unfortunately
they're separate processes], freeware)

Adobe premiere (for extracting/scaling [at once, very nice], commercial)

Videomach (for extracting/scaling/saving as png [at once: very, VERY
nice] Shareware(?), fully functional demo version)

With these programs, movie to png process goes like this:

Irfanview (extract) --> Irfanview (scale/convert) (Uses REALLY long
filenames, could cause problems)

Premiere (extract/scale) --> Irfanview (convert) 

Videomach (extract/scale/save as png)
========================================================================
Step-by-step-instructions to making your own Matrix-trilerish-
ansi-animations.

First you need 
*some kind of moviefile
*some program to extract its frames into single imagefiles
*some program to scale and convert the files to png 
*the program png2ansi, available at http://www.saunalahti.fi/~wheany/

**NOTE** If you have downloaded png2ansi before, download it anyway,
since this trick only works with the new version.

1) Extract the frames.

2) Scale the frames to a maximum of (screen_width-1) * (screen_height-1)
and convert to png. Use short (= 8+3) filenames. Example: fram0001.png

3) Go to a dos-window and type "dir *.png >dir_list.txt"

4) Open the file dir_list.txt in a text-editor that has macros.

5) Record a macro that leaves only the filenames in the file, nothing
more. The file should look like this:
fram0001.png
fram0002.png
fram0003.png
fram0004.png

and so on.

6) save the file and got to the dos-window and type 
"sort dir_list.txt >dir_sort.txt"

7)Now open the file dir_sort.txt and record a macro that adds "png2ansi"
to the beginning of each line and ">>movie.txt" to the end.

Now the file looks like this:

png2ansi fram0001.png >>movie.txt 
png2ansi fram0002.png >>movie.txt
png2ansi fram0003.png >>movie.txt
png2ansi fram0004.png >>movie.txt

and so on.

8) Change the first line to 
"png2ansi fram0001.png >movie.txt" (notice the single
greater-than-sign), then save this file as movie.bat

9) Go back to the dos-window and type "movie.bat", after a while (or a
long while) the movie is ready, now type "type movie.txt" 

THAT'S IT!

If you want some kind of progress-meter, add a line 
"echo frame number <number>" every 200 lines to the movie.bat.


-- 
Jan-Erik Finnberg           whe...@saunalahti.fi           ICQ:49316651

Visit http://www.saunalahti.fi/~wheany/FFVII/
for Final fantasy 7 midis and not much more!!

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