EVS-PRO and MVS have the ability to create animations (e.g. AVI, MPEG or HAV files), 4DIM vector animations and/or sequences of bitmap images to produce animations. The Animator module makes this process very simple, and provides powerful capabilities to simultaneously modify the parameters of many modules in an application for each frame of the animation. The Animator directly controls all parameters in your application.
Computer Bitmap Animations Sequences of image are converted to one of several standard computer animation file formats. These formats include .AVI and .MPEG. Our experience is that .MPEG usually plays back slower than .AVI without special hardware. Without special hardware, high quality .AVI animation sequences can be played back on your Windows computer system using the Media Player included with Windows.
We also recommend a freeware program called Imagen for playing back animations. Gromada's Imagen is a superior multimedia player. It has several advantages over Microsoft's players. Most notable are the ability to Display all Frames and to reset Frame rate.
Imagen is a multimedia player mainly developed to support our HAV format including some special features very useful to most of video producers. Here is the quick list of what it offers:
* support for a total of 14 different formats (i.e. AVI, HAV, FLIC, MPEG-1, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, SGI etc.)
* capability to play image sequences (sequentially numbered images) which are frequently generated by many video rendering programs or video capture devices
* optionally it can be called with command line options (e.g. play and close)
* Imagen, the HAV player, is a freeware, and can be used for your private or commercial purposes with no restrictions. It is installed with EVS and MVS by default, and can be downloaded from:
http://www.gromada.com
DVD or Videotape: A very high quality animation can be produced as a DVD by having some reasonably priced hardware and software. A DVD recorder is required. Most of these include some software for transcoding normal animations into DVD format. This allows for converting an AVI file to DVD format.
This is the simplest and cheapest way to create high quality DVD or videotape.
C Tech 4D Interactive Models: Using the Record_4DIM module you can create 4DIM files where each frame of the animation is a true 3D model. You can interact with each frame by zooming, panning, or rotating. Frames can include moving planes, changing plume levels or completely new models!