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This is how i use womble to put together a sequence of video frames i have edited using GIMP. Its probably not perfect, but its served me well so far.
I would use womble to grab the clip that i need to do the frame by frame stuff, copy just that and start a new project in womble, pasting the clip i just copied on the timeline.
I will start up womble again, so that I have two wombles open on my computer and past that clip i copied on its timeline, i will need this same clip later.
Back in the first womble i was working with, i will right click on wombles output video preview (the preview on the right) and click "save image as" and save every single frame of the clip I copied this way (starting from the frame furthest left and working my way to the right until fnished). I will save them all numerically, example: Thismovieisshite o1.bmp, Thismovieisshite o2.bmp, Thismovieisshite o3.bmp ect. until i have every frame saved this way, it is easier to keep track of all the frames like this. I will then use GIMP to perform whatever changes to those frames i need, when done performing the changes for each frame, i will then save that as something like this Thismovieisshite fixed o1.bmp, I will do this with ALL the frames and import these new frames into womble, then replace the original frames with the new ones:
Now i need to get these frames ready to comply to the correct aspect ratio the dvd has, because womble thinks these frames are not a video it will automatically want to distort them (no, i don't know why it does this). I will Hold down the Ctrl button and highlight each frame by clicking on it (Click on each one starting from the left, working your way to the right). Once all the frames are highlighted, right click on one of them and click "Stretch", this just gets the frames ready to be the correct aspect ratio, in order for the images to be in dvd quality i need one frame from the original video clip AT THE END, next to the frames i made. Be sure to keep these frames highlighted, don't click on anything else on the timeline or the frames will become un-highlighted. Right click on the first frame from the left and click "copy"
Next i Go to the other womble, the one i pasted that clip earlier and add one frame to the right, then delete everything else:
Now i will paste those frames i copied onto wombles timeline so that they fit in place of the part of the video i deleted.
By having the frames "in between" that one video frame they will not distort, and because i right click -> stretched them earlier they will conform to the aspect ratio of the original video.
Next i will need to save this project and frameserve it to HCenc using this guide
I always encode these little clips with a high bitrate using HCenc's mpg standard matrix.
Thats basically how ive always done it. Its a little complicated but it always works great for me. Doing it with AVIsynth sounds way easier however.
It should be known that i always do this with 23.976fps ntsc footage. If you do this with 29.97 ntsc your going to have a real pain trying to get everything done.
If anyone has any suggestion for making this guide more easily comprehendable, feel free to speak up
I would use womble to grab the clip that i need to do the frame by frame stuff, copy just that and start a new project in womble, pasting the clip i just copied on the timeline.
I will start up womble again, so that I have two wombles open on my computer and past that clip i copied on its timeline, i will need this same clip later.
Back in the first womble i was working with, i will right click on wombles output video preview (the preview on the right) and click "save image as" and save every single frame of the clip I copied this way (starting from the frame furthest left and working my way to the right until fnished). I will save them all numerically, example: Thismovieisshite o1.bmp, Thismovieisshite o2.bmp, Thismovieisshite o3.bmp ect. until i have every frame saved this way, it is easier to keep track of all the frames like this. I will then use GIMP to perform whatever changes to those frames i need, when done performing the changes for each frame, i will then save that as something like this Thismovieisshite fixed o1.bmp, I will do this with ALL the frames and import these new frames into womble, then replace the original frames with the new ones:
Now i need to get these frames ready to comply to the correct aspect ratio the dvd has, because womble thinks these frames are not a video it will automatically want to distort them (no, i don't know why it does this). I will Hold down the Ctrl button and highlight each frame by clicking on it (Click on each one starting from the left, working your way to the right). Once all the frames are highlighted, right click on one of them and click "Stretch", this just gets the frames ready to be the correct aspect ratio, in order for the images to be in dvd quality i need one frame from the original video clip AT THE END, next to the frames i made. Be sure to keep these frames highlighted, don't click on anything else on the timeline or the frames will become un-highlighted. Right click on the first frame from the left and click "copy"
Next i Go to the other womble, the one i pasted that clip earlier and add one frame to the right, then delete everything else:
Now i will paste those frames i copied onto wombles timeline so that they fit in place of the part of the video i deleted.
By having the frames "in between" that one video frame they will not distort, and because i right click -> stretched them earlier they will conform to the aspect ratio of the original video.
Next i will need to save this project and frameserve it to HCenc using this guide
I always encode these little clips with a high bitrate using HCenc's mpg standard matrix.
Thats basically how ive always done it. Its a little complicated but it always works great for me. Doing it with AVIsynth sounds way easier however.
It should be known that i always do this with 23.976fps ntsc footage. If you do this with 29.97 ntsc your going to have a real pain trying to get everything done.
If anyone has any suggestion for making this guide more easily comprehendable, feel free to speak up
