[Thomas c. Gass]

>> The fun keeps coming…….

🙂 That’s correct, but I call it “a challenge” 😉

We will work in square pixel format, since the animation will be projected in a non-TV size and will remain completely in digital format (streamed from harddisk).

[Thomas c. Gass]

Dave,

thanks for your reply! You’re absolutely right with your comments about the “sphere” problem, yet, the closer you are to a sphere, the more you can neglect it’s round shape (as a long time private pilot I would never worry about the earth’s round surface when setting up a navigation plan for a 50 mile trip 😉

The aerials cover a range of about 10 x 5 miles and the idea was (or still is 😉 to write a script that translates the NMEA data into the AE grid in order to show the actual position of the helicopter on a map. But before trying to write such a script, we need to re-convert the NMEA audio signal into readable positioning data…

Thomas

[Thomas c. Gass]

Hello Dave

thank you very much for your reply and your solution! Nevertheless, this procedure requires a lot of time… but it definitely is a way to accomplish the job. In the meantime I’ve found another workaround – I post it in case anybody else needs a similar solution:

– add the source file to a composition
– change the composition’s framerate to 1 frame / second
– add the composition to the render cue
– in the render dialogue set the frame rate option to: Use this frame rate: 0.1

All the best

Thomas

[Thomas c. Gass]

🙂 Ok, here are more details about what I want to do:
I got a HD-Stream on harddisk, that was shot continuosly with a fixed camera angle showing the process of building up a large circus tent. The stream was already downsized to SD and upspeeded to make a time-lapse shot. In addition my client wants HD stills of every 10th second of the process for print. That’s 900 stills – far too much to export one by one out of FCP, AE or Quicktime. So I thought it might be possible to render out a still sequence via AE – but as I said: only every 10 seconds one frame. Of course I could render out ALL frames and delete the unwanted frames, but that’s 270.000 frames to render… :-/

Thomas

[Thomas c. Gass]

Todd,

thank you for your reply! I’ve had a look at this link, but it only describes exporting a sequence as stills, which is not my particular problem. I have a 3 hour recording from a survey camera and would like to render out just one frame every 30 seconds – can that be achieved with AE as well?

Thomas