On Monday, March 7, 2022, Phyllis Smith via Cin <[email protected]> wrote:
The ffmpeg TOC file does not need to contain the list of files.
Here is how to test this for TIFF files: 1) render using options: ffmpeg / tif 2) for ease of use, put the files in /tmp/test/test%5d.tif (so create /tmp/test directory first) 3) do the render and you will see that test%5d.tiff will contain ONLY: IMAGE2 # Frame rate: 29.970030 # Width: 352 # Height: 240 and all of the test00###.tiff files exist in the /tmp/test directory 4) now just add a video track and drag the test%5d.tiff from the Media folder of the Resources window and it works correctly or later just load /tmp/test%5d.tiff and it works.
Now for the interesting part, yesterday and this morning DPX was working on my builds and AppImages from October, November, and December UNTIL I switch to using TIFF instead of DPX. Now DPX no longer works so there is something going on and I have not figured it out yet.
I think in my case (i tried ffmpeg/bmp seq) Cin just created bmps instead of dpx! for scripting.. I first cp dpx%6d.dpx dpx.dpxs (copied cingg's header/toc into new file) then ls *.dpx > dpx.list (will list all dpx files in current dir including cingg's header/toc one) then cat dpx.list >> dpx.dpxs (glue two files together) then sed '/%d*/d' -i dpx.dpxs (remove cin-gg's header/toc file from resulting file in-place) but because dpx really bmp in my case it failed to work...
Also, yesterday, I tried it on Arch dated 10/30/2020 and DPX did not work (have to check to see if TIFF does). The correct contents of the dpx file is: IMAGE2 # Frame rate: 29.970030 # Width: 352 # Height: 240 with NO listing of each individual dpx files needed.
I tried to do a dpx render; it came with all the images and a TOC file
that doesn't have the links to the images. Then I created a second TOC file using imagelist.sh. A TOC came up with the links to the dpx images. This doesn't work when imported into CinGG; it's obvious because imagelist.sh uses only jpeg images and not dpx. So I took the first TOC and pasted in the links from the second TOC. This TOC+ works in CinGG and Natron; it doesn't work in Kdenlive and OpenShot (but I don't know if these programs support DPX).