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Re: Movie clips to Mathematica

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg73019] Re: Movie clips to Mathematica
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:31:37 -0500 (EST)
• References: <ephdvc$s4k$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,

use VirtualDub
http://www.virtualdub.org/

and break the video into frames.

Regards
   Jens

Robert Pigeon wrote:
> Greetings,
> 	Here is what I want to do:
> 
> 1) I have video clips (*.avi or *.wmv or *.mov or whatever) that are about 2
> sec long
> 2) I need to analyze the video frame by frame (frames could be every 0.1
> sec)
> 3) The analysis is segementation to find the area of a portion of the frame.
> The geometry is the same from frame to frame except that the area I need to
> calculate shrinks from frame to frame.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1) can I "Import" a video clip into Mathematica ? (doc says *.gif but I cant
> find anything else)
> 2) if so, how can I break the video into frames ?
> 2) if not possible, do you know of any program that could save a video clip
> as frames (I would like to specify the time frame) ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert
> 
> Robert Pigeon
> TZ = -5
> 
>