TIFF images

Does it have to be TIFF? Or will any uncompressed image format do?

I tend to avoid using Vegas to export image sequences because it basically goes frame by frame and saves an image to disk, seemingly doing more processing than I think is necessary. The end result is that it takes quite a bit longer than it should.

I would highly recommend Virtualdub (link), a free windows program, to export image sequences from a video file. On top of doing very fast exports to image sequences, it also does an amazing number of other things. Check it out :)
 
Like I asked, does it have to be TIFF, or will any uncompressed image format do? VirtualDub can export image sequences to uncompressed formats such as BMP and Targa (an offshoot of this program, VirtualDubMod, can also export to PNG).
 
You could "save snapshot to file" in Vegas as a .png or .jpg, then open the snapshot in Photoshop (assuming you have this program), then save as a TIF (uncompressed) from Photoshop.
 
I think the answer me and Jamison are looking for is that if our main NLE is Vegas and we have to get TIFF images of our movie shot on DVX, for ultimately exporting to powerzoom, how can we achieve that using virtual dub>...and whether we can.

Thanks for any comments
 
If I'm not mistaken I believe you can export out of vegas using PNG instead of TIFF into photozoom and after the uprez you can put it back into Vegas as a PNG file. PNG and TIFF are similar but PNG is supposed to be a better format.
 
Ok so i read that thing and i have a new question. If you want to export your movie to PNG's and run it through photozoom pro and fix te aspect ratio, do you have to save every single indivual frame as PNG. Beacause that would take an unspeakable amount of time to do. Lets say you have a 10 minute movie, you would be exporting 18 thousand frames!!!! I mean is there any other way you could do this?
 
Jamison said:
Ok so i read that thing and i have a new question. If you want to export your movie to PNG's and run it through photozoom pro and fix te aspect ratio, do you have to save every single indivual frame as PNG. Beacause that would take an unspeakable amount of time to do. Lets say you have a 10 minute movie, you would be exporting 18 thousand frames!!!! I mean is there any other way you could do this?
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I believe there is no faster way of rendering it. Some have asked for bundle rendering but with no avail. I found that if you store everything in a separate HD and not in your OS drive that it averages about 2 sec's per frame. But Uprezing for Photozoom Pro method is made for very very short films. IE 5 minutes max. Otherwise your computer will be tied up for a while. But that is the cost of having a better image. Ask Disjecta...He is the one that has this method down pat on Premiere.
 
i kno the soul purpous in doing this is to achieve cinemascope through the photozoom pro software, but is there any other way to to get that cinemascope look by not croping away at ur footage, putting big black bars in, stretching your video, or spending endless amounts of money on wide angle lens that really only give you a 16x9 image not a cinemascope look.
 
no but you can get closer to it. You still will lose resolution, but there is no such thing as a cinemescope CCD.
 
But can Vegas export a loop, say 60 frames, as tiff or bmp or whatever.
I know I can click the 'save image to disk' and I know Virtualdub can do it...
but I was just wondering it vegas can do a 'batch export ' of sorts.

I don't think it can, but please enlighten me if it can.

Thanks,
Greg
 
Sure you can. Vegas comes with a Render Image Sequence script which you can set the in/out points for and render out an image sequence (jpg or png). Also, at the VASST link posted above, you can get a script for Vegas that lets you create a loop region and export it as an image sequence.

However, while Vegas can do this, I would not recommend using Vegas simply for the sake of speed. It seems that Vegas processes each frame before saving (any applied effects, etc.) and thus it can be fairly slow, while many simpler image programs pull the frames directly from the stream, greatly speeding up the process. Programs like Virtualdub or the numerous freeware/shareware utilities out there made specifically for exporting image sequences are better suited for the job IMHO.
 
Thanks Jive!
There it is... right at my fingertips... just too stupid to find it!

This will work for the quick and dirty solution for small jobs... I will look into Virtualdub for bigger ones.
 
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