I am starting to use amiga moviesetter for cartoon animation.
Is it possible to transfer a finished moviesetter production into youtube?
How ?
I just put a Scala animation up on YouTube and the process was somewhat painful.
The absolute *simplest* option is to get some kind of analog video & audio input for your PC or Mac, and record it into that computer.
From there you will need to encode it to an MPEG-4 file with H.264 codec. For this you can use HandBrake or VLC, or any number of other things. You will probably want to run a de-interlacing filter on it, or else your animation will flicker and look bad.
The best and most professional option is to save your final project into digital frames and never go analog -- that was not an option for me in Scala. With animation files, you can usually find something to save your frames out as individual IFF/ILBM files -- Brilliance, MainActor Broadcast, and Scala's AnimLab can do this. Not sure if MovieSetter can. From there, you still would need to find some way of adding the audio again! A few programs on PCs and Macs can load sequential IFF/ILBM files into a time-line ... After Effects (with optional plug-in) comes to mind, as was as TVP Animation Pro, Apple's Shake, and probably other outrageously expensive programs.
I don't have much experience with MovieSetter so I don't know what kind of output options you have. Scala does not let you save your project as an animation or as a series of still images (to the best of my knowledge) so I really had to go the analog route.
Search "Tatterhood" on YouTube and you can see my anim. You can see that going analog through my SuperGen into a PCI video capture card on my PC introduced some wavy jitter on the video. Also some of Scala's transitions didn't look quite as cool because I had to run the de-interlacing filter on it.
If all this sounds too complicated to you, that's because it is
- t
