GIG reference manual

Flipbook

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Section contents

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Introduction

Animation images rendered by GIG's 3D-GO Advanced are stored using the Tiff file format in the subdirectory production of the current project. The images are stored with the saved animation name followed by four digits. These digits are in general in incremental order. Animations can be rendered in a flipbook format selected from the page size menu from the main menu. With GIG's Graphical user interface tool Flipbook, the user can preview his or her animation sequences.

GIG's Flipbook tool can be selected from the tools menu by double clicking on Flipbook or started up from a UNIX shell with the command `startFlipbook'.

Main controls

start flipbook

Usage
When selected the selected animation will be loaded. As soon as it is loaded the controlwindow will change and the flipbook controls appear. The flipbook will only start when proper name and start and end frames are selected.

Note A minimum of 5 animation files should be selected before the animation can be loaded and displayed.

show still

Usage
When selected any selected frame or series of frames from the production directory or stills from the picture directory can be viewed frame by frame.

exit

Usage
When selected the Flipbook session is ended and the user is returned to GIG when the session was started from the Tools menu or returned to the UNIX window when the session was started with the startFlipbook command.

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