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Eric schwartz animations
« on: June 13, 2003, 04:20:07 AM »
does anyone know of a way to view and watch Eric Schwartz animations on the PC?
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Re: Eric schwartz animations
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2003, 04:44:00 AM »
;-) Not as-is.  Most of his classic work were created with MovieSetter, an Amiga program.  The freely distributeable player for these is also an Amiga program.  I don't know of anything similar for the PC.

However, if you can play them on your Amiga, output them to video, then read them back in with, say, a Toaster, you may be able to capture the output and save it, frame by frame, to disk.  Next, use any of the utilities on Aminet that can create .avi, .mov, .mpg, etc. files from a series of still images.  The resulting movie should be playable on a PC.

:-( It's the long way around, but it seems to be the only way.
 

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Re: Eric schwartz animations
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2003, 04:54:47 AM »
I found a site that when you click on one of his animations it opens a web page with a player in it, here check it out, just wish there was a program for the pc that can convert the files, or programs for winuae or something, right now I am a little amiga-less
here check out that page:

play eric schwartz movies on pc, kinda
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Re: Eric schwartz animations
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2003, 05:07:12 AM »
From the page of one of the anims:

MovieSetter file converted with SET2ANIM 0.4
© 1999 Daniel Mealha Cabrita

;-) If you find a copy of SET2ANIM, you should be able to convert the MovieSetter files yourself.
 

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Re: Eric schwartz animations
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2003, 05:32:36 AM »
I was going to say that you could probably ask ES to distribute converted versions. But, I remembered that he is a BIGtime Amigan and would probably be offended by the notion. Worth a try, though, emailing him about it.

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Re: Eric schwartz animations
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2003, 06:46:08 AM »
WinMP plays MovieSetter animations.
 

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Re: Eric schwartz animations
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2003, 07:42:03 AM »
A Friend of mine who used to run an Amiga BBS, has links to a PC player and where to get the animations from on his web site.

http://www.elevatebbs.co.uk/Main.html
 

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Re: Eric schwartz animations
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2005, 02:59:14 PM »
MultiShow plays Amiga ANIMs, IFF ILBM and IFF 8SVX files on PCs, Macs or other platforms supporting Java.

You can download converted Eric Schwartz ANIMs here (look for the download link at the bottom of the page).
 

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Re: Eric schwartz animations
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2005, 07:09:31 PM »
XAnim plays MovieSetter animations.
 

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Re: Eric schwartz animations
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2005, 06:37:42 AM »
Just tried with VLC. It doesn't work...
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