AnimPlayer is able to export images into several standard image formats and can be used as a converter tool. Just open an image sequence and select File / Export images ... or press [Ctrl]+[E] for the export dialog.
When exporting images AnimPlayer will clear the cache and reloads every image temporary into full 24/32 bit colors (8 bit per channel) in order to export the related format in highest possible quality.
Note: Image export currently works for image sequences only. Loaded footage from movies can't be exported yet.
Common Parameters
The lower half of the export dialog contains settings which are relevant for all export formats.
Filename setting:
- Path: a full file path of the destination folder where to export the images
- Name: the plain filename of the exported image without image extension
- Start: the start number of the exported sequence
- Extension: the file extension will automatically be set by the according export format.
The final full filename is: Path + Name + Start + Extension
e.g.: "C:\Program Files\AnimPlayer\export\ConvertedImage_0000.tga"
Other settings:
- Split alpha channel: If the source sequence contains an alpha channel and RGB and Alpha channel has been loaded you can export the Alpha channel to a separate independent sequence.
This alpha sequence is stored in the same directory like but with the prefix A_ in front of the image filenames.
- Do not cache: While exporting AnimPlayer reprocesses all images from their original source files to archive the best possible quality.
If this option is enabled the reprocessed images are not cached in AnimPlayers playback cache. This can be very useful for very long sequences which would not fit into the cache.
- [In/Out] sequence: Only the images between the In/Out Points will be exported
- Entire sequence: The entire sequence will be exported, In/Out points will be ignored.
IFL (image file list)
IFL format has no additional options. It just saves a list of filenames of the loaded images to a text file. IFLs can be very powerful for speed up loading or customized playlist. AnimPlayer supports IFL via drag+drop or as command line parameter.
IFL can be easily created with other applications like 3ds max, a simple text editor or from the command prompt, e.g: dir *.tga /B > imagelist.ifl
AVI (audio video interleaved format)
Please note that not all image dimensions can be exported to every AVI compressors. Width and height of your images should be multiples of 4 or better of 8.
- Uncompressed: Best quality, but result in huge files for long sequences.
- Custom compression: A standard AVI compressor dialog will appear where you can select the compressor.
- Speed: Playback speed of the exported AVI file.
BMP (windows bitmap format)
BMP is the standard image format under Windows. 24 Bit and 32 Bit formats are unfortunately uncompressed but almost every graphics application can handle this format.
- 24 Bit: Save red, green, blue channels only, don't include the alpha channel.
- 32 Bit: Save RGB and an empty alpha channel.
- Save alpha: Instead of a blank alpha channel save the original alpha channel.
JPEG / JPG (joint photographic experts group format)
AnimPlayer exports jpeg images always in in YUV 4:2:2 format. Loading of these jpegs is extremely fast if AnimPlayer runs in YUV 4:2:2 mode. Click here for more details.
Jpeg images have lossy compression. We recommend a value of 96% for reasonable quality but small file size.
- Quality: Quality of the compressed JPEG images. Higher values result in higher quality.
PNG (portable network graphic)
PNG is a very common format. It offers by default good loss less ZIP based compression.
- 24 Bit: Save red, green, blue channels only, don't include the alpha channel.
- 32 Bit: Save RGB and an empty alpha channel.
- Save alpha: Instead of a blank alpha channel save the original alpha channel.
TGA (targa format)
Targa is a very old but still common format. If can store an alpha channel and has quite good compression for clean (computer generated) images.
- 24 Bit: Save red, green, blue channels only, don't include the alpha channel.
- 32 Bit: Save RGB and an empty alpha channel.
- Save alpha: Instead of a blank alpha channel save the original alpha channel.
- RLE Compression: Compress the exported targa images with loss less Run-length-Encoding compression. Recommended for clean images, not recommended for noisy footage.
TIFF (tagged image file format)
TIFF format is also very popular and widely supported by image-manipulation applications. It offers many options for compression and has many other useful features.
- 24 Bit: Save red, green, blue channels only, don't include the alpha channel.
- 32 Bit: Save RGB and an empty alpha channel.
- Save alpha: Instead of a blank alpha channel save the original alpha channel.
Compression: Note that not all methods may be supported by all applications.
- None: No compression at all, produces large files.
- RLE: Loss less, fast and effective compression for large single colored areas only.
- LZW: Loss less, very effective compression for all kind of footage.
- ZIP: Loss less, effective compression for most kind of footage.
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