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Introduction
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I created this ImageFX Arexx script beacause I wasn't statisfied
with the MotionBlur in Tornado3D.I think the MotionBlur in T3D
blurs everything too much, it evens blur the images when nothing
is moving. This can sometimes look good, but I don't like it.

This Arexx script takes one frame and the composes a selectable
number of the following frames with the first one. The first
"Blur frame" is 50% of the intensity of the first frame. And the
next frame is 50%/2 and the next one is 50%/4 and so on.

Installation
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Copy the Arexx script where ever you want. Preferably in your ImageFX:Rexx/ directory.

How to use
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Let's say that you make an animation in a 3D program and make it
100 frames long. If you want 9 frames blurred then make the same
animation 1000 frames long instead. Then you use this script and
it takes the first frame and blurs 9 frames with it. Like this:

Frame number:      0      |     1-9      |     10     |   11-19
Image:         Base image |  Blur frames | Base Image | Blur Image

and so on....

In Tornado3D when using a PowerPC CPU the rendering is so fast
that it doesn't really matter if you render 10 more frames for
each frame, but with 68k programs it might be too much :)

NOTE: The ImageFX Classic is faster than ImageFX for Cybergraphx,
when handling scripts.

When you start the Arexx script in ImageFX you are asked a couple
of questions.

1. Input Basename
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The base file pattern without the numbers.
For example if the files are named pic.0001, pic.0002,pic.0003.....
Then you should enter pic.

2. Number of digits after the base name (Load)
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The number of digits after the input basename. For example if the
files are named pic.0001, pic.0002, pic.0003..... Then you should
enter 4

3. Start Frame
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The first frame of your picture serie. If the
frames starts with for example pic.0000 you should enter 0.
If the frames start with pic.0001 you should enter 1.

4. Output Basename
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The base filename pattern for the output pictures.

5. Number of digits after the base name (Save)
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The number of digits after the output basename. For example if you want the
output files named pic.0001, pic.0002, pic.0003.....
Then you should enter 4.

6. Total number of frames
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The total number of frames. Should preferably be an even number
dividable with the number of blur images.

7. Number of frames to be blurred
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The number of frames to be used as composite images, see
explanation above.

8. Save Image Format
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The file format of the output pictures. To be able to use YUV you
have to have YUV image Saver installed. The JPEG images are saved
with the quality setting at 100% (best picture quality).

Enjoy!

Suggestions are more than welcome.

Author: Robert Nilsson
email: robert.nilsson@mbox306.swipnet.se
website: http://come.to/ppcrulez or http://www.ppcrulez.com

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