PC Scion Image Conversion

Instructions:

The instructions listed below are for those who have a PC based system using the Scion Frame Grabber. The PC Scion image program will not save compressed tiff file images as individual images and they need to be in this format in order to create a QuickTime movie file. The macro listed below is a newly created adaptation to the program that will save the images individually. Follow the instructions listed below and you should be creating movies in no time! (This Macro was created by Beat Lundin (http://www.lis.ch), thanks Beat!)

--------------- Instructions:

Open a new text window in Scion image, copy the macro below into it

and select 'Select/Load macros from Window' to activate it. Save it as a macro file.

Use the macro 'Save Slices as filesŠ' (see below) to save the stack

as a series of numbered TIFF files. Don't edit the file name.

Install Quicktime, start QuickTime Player and use 'Open Image

Sequence...' (select the first file of the series) to convert the

TIFF series to a QuickTime movie. I'm not sure whether this function

is active in the free version of QuickTime. You may have to buy a

serial number for QuickTime pro (30 bucks) to activate it.

QuickTime and serial number can be obtained from

http://www.apple.com/quicktime.

----------------Macro:

procedure CheckForStack;

begin

if nPics=0 then begin

PutMessage('This macro requires a stack.');

exit;

end;

if nSlices=0 then begin

PutMessage('This window is not a stack.');

exit

end;

end;

macro 'Save Slices as filesŠ';

{

This macro saves the slices in a stack as individual TIFF or PICT files using

names of the form needed by Apple's Convert to [QuickTime]Movie utility.

To specify the file type, checked either TIFF or PICT in the SaveAs dialog

box, which should only appear once.

}

var

i,stack:integer;

begin

CheckForStack;

stack:=PidNumber;

for i:= 1 to nSlices do begin

SelectPic(stack);

SelectSlice(i);

{Duplicate('Frame.',i:3) original}

Duplicate('Frame',i:3,'.tif'); {modified}

SaveAs;

{Export;}

Dispose;

end;

end;

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