Compositing in VirtualDub

VirtualDub basically creates animations from still images and has loads of other image filters too. In just a couple of steps, you are going to take the individual frames saved from Thea or SketchUp and turn them into an uncompressed AVI video.

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Animation on the Mac

VirtualDub is a Windows-only application. To do the same job on a Mac, download the free app Zeitraffer from the Apple App Store. This small application let's you select a folder with numbered images and save them as a QuickTime or MPEG-4 video, with optional resizing and frame rate adjustment. That's all we need for this step.

Creating an animation from still images

Follow these steps to turn your images into a video:

1. To open VirtualDub, double-click on the VirtualDub.exe file (or shortcut).

2. In VirtualDub, go to File| Open Video File.

3. Navigate to the folder where you saved the image frames and click on the first image.

4. Click on Open. The images will be loaded in sequence.

5. Click on the Play button on the...