I recently picked up a Toshiba M4 and last night discovered the MultiMode feature. It takes a series of pictures, and when you 'play' it on the camera's LCD, it is like a mini movie.

It looks cool on the LCD! Now I want to view it on my PC. When I transfer the MultiMode image it comes over as a single image file that contains all the individual images tiled on it.

It would be nice to have a way to 'extract' all the individual images and then animate them as an .AVI or .MOV file. I started to do this manually using an image editing program but it was too painful and I'm not acurate enough with the mouse.

I thought I read about one of the big graphics packages being 'scriptable'. I am hoping that I can write a script to position the cursor, make the selection, write to a file, repeat. Then take the individual image files and animate them.

Does any of this sound possible with off the shelf packages or do I need to resort to writing code to do this?

Rod

-- Rod Kratochwill (rkrato@gtemail.net), July 07, 2000

Answers

I haven't checked it out, but I seem to recall that the Sierra Imaging "Image Expert" software that comes with Toshiba cameras can play those back as animations... If that's any help?

-- Gerald M. Payne (gmp@francomm.com), July 08, 2000.

The camera came with Ver. 1.8.4 (260) and I can't find anything like that in this version. It appears that there is a newer version on the SierraImaging website so perhaps it is in the newer version of the package. I'll try the upgrade I guess and see if the new version has that feature.

Rod

-- Rod Kratochwill (rkrato@gtemail.net), July 08, 2000.