Capturing video (or at least one frame) inside Rev

Karl Petersen karlpet at mac.com
Thu May 16 10:49:01 EDT 2002


At 8:33 AM -0700 5/16/02, Karl Petersen wrote:
>Unfortunately, when that script exports the captured frame to a JPEG 
>file, Rev refuses to relinquish the temporary memory it grabs, 
>eventually causing your program to crash. If you can find a 
>workaround for that problem, "import snapshot" should work nicely. 
>(I've tested the memory problem only in Mac OS 9.1.)

Oops, I forgot to mention a possible solution to the memory problem: 
While exporting JPEGs in a different context, I discovered the memory 
loss occurs only if the monitor is set to Thousands of colors. If you 
see the memory problem too, test it using more/fewer colors.

Karl



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