ImageStudio 2.3 and Batch processing with 1 Palette...HELP!

[leirbag28]

 Anyone know how I can batch process a buch of pics but using the same palette or the best general palette for all the frames?  I am converting them to 16 colors and virtually all the frames use the same colors but different palettes so that when I join the frames into an animation using SCALAMM300 (which plays fine from there but then want to load it into Brilliance 2.0 which doesnt seem to support Multiple palette animations.........I know I can maybe optimize the palette with SCALA, but that gives you cheapo results.

Im trying to make crisp nice animations but with one palette for the entire anim.  I would think this also makes it run faster?

When you start to Batch process, ImageStudio asks for some input such as:   SCALE 352 225;COLOURS 16 DITHER FS

Can I put PALETTE within in there and specify a certain palette?



EDIT:  Oh another question.......I heard that with WB 2.0 and up, one is able to make the first 8 colors invisible to a genlock or transparent like color 0, How does one do that? can I make 128 colors act as color 0 weven though they are different colors?  I know Broadcast Titler 2.0 can do it, but I dont know how.............its a neat trick because if you decide not to genlock a certain graphic, it has a nice background that usually would be transparent (a multiple color background)

How do I do it with Brilliance? or SCALA, or PPaint or Image Studio?

[X-ray]

@ leirbag

I remember (in the foggy recesses of my mind) that I had a similar problem when raytracing frames for output as animation via Scala MM400.
I got around the problem of the changing pallet by selecting 6 of the most varied frames in the sequence (by varied, I mean in colour) and scaling them down to one sixth their size, then saving them on disk. Then I loaded up DPaint (IIRC), set the screen resolution and mode to the same as the final output of the animation, then loaded all six images as brushes and pasted them onto the screen. I had a first frame with all the colours I was likely to use. I then imported the rest of the frames and deleted the first composite frame before saving the animation.

I'll have to look at it again to nail down the details. I used sooooooo many programs, and many processing sequences. Sadly I haven't done animations for a long time, so I have forgotten many of the little tricks I used to use.

[leirbag28]

Thanks for the reply X-ray

But I found 2 solutions by experimenting. First in SCALA just select "Lock Optimized" and it will lock the palette and use it for all the frames. then in Brilliance 2.0 I just rearranged the palette on the first frame so that the colors went from Dark to light and told it to Remap all the frames like this and it did.even if the animation had the colors in different positions on each frame. and it worked :-)

I am still looking for a Solution for Image Studio though as this is what I use to convert all the frames from Jpegs first.....it would help if I can get the palette thing out of the way right from the start.

[X-ray]

@ Leirbag

How are generating the frames/what is the source of the frames?

[leirbag28]

@X-ray

Not sure what your asking, But the Original file was DV Video I took with my camera and imported into Quicktime Pro......then converted the whole movie into .BMP frames and burned them on a CD to transfer to my Amiga.its about 227 frames.....( Unfortunately I think I converted both fields of a frame so some frames look funny) So anyway I use ImageStudio 2.3 to batch process all the frames to make the 704 x 450 16 colors, to later recompile them as an Anim and it will look like Video footage running on an Amiga...later I can add the sound...........Ive done it before and it looks amazing.

This is the best way of Getting Super high Quality Video into your Amiga.........better than a VLab or other frame grabbers...........although those are much easier as you can just capture right on your Amiga and convert right there.  I just recently purchased a VLAB Parrallel version, which I can make it capture more frames by playing the DV tape in my Camera in slow motion which it does quite well.

anyway seems like I am getting off topic here. :-)