Apple II Music Video - Welcome to the Jungle!!

["Frank M." <frank_o_rama@hotmail.com>]

Continuing my previous experiments with rasterizing video on an //e,
I've finished rendering all 6,462 frames for the music video to Guns N
Roses "Welcome to the Jungle". Each frame is a single lo-res GR screen
dump. Obviously this only will work on a machine with a CompactFlash
drive or in an emulator.


Download the GNR Disk Image here (32 Meg ProDOS 2MG image).....

http://clients.kraftworksltd.com/download/GNR-FINAL.zip

to run, boot from the drive and then enter
"-exec.me.first"
"-play.gnr"


Here's how i got the files rendered.....
1. Export 1 JPG per frame from normal MPG movie (AppleScripted
Quicktime)
2. Convert JPGs to indexed-color 40x48pixel TIFFs (custom Photoshop
actions/palettes)
3. Drop TIFFs onto a disk image (tips hat to Andy McFadden for
CiderPress)
4. Frames are rendered using a BASIC program from the TIFF file.
5. GR screen dumps saved to single binary files.


It helps to squint and/or stand back like 10 feet when watching the
video. Also, if you're in an emulator, try speeding the processor up to
get a sense of what is possible if i only cleaned up my code.   ;)

The frame displaying program is in BASIC, so if anyone has any ideas
how to speed things up that would be great. I'm gonna assume that
having less than 1500 entries per subdirectory would be a good place to
start, as well as cleaning up my bad code or maybe programming in ML
instead of BASIC. any ideas are welcomed!




Frank
frank_o_rama@hotmail.com


PS--here's a link to an earlier video i made. Only 34 frames, but
memory-resident and runs from a 140k floppy.....

http://clients.kraftworksltd.com/download/White_Weddin.zip