I''m designing some cool motion sequences in max, and would like to know if it''s possible to join AVI''s together, so they run as a single AVI. Is this even possible? I''d like to create a 5 to 10 minute piece of work but render it in parts, any help would be much appreciated? Thx Gav.

You will need a video editing program to put those AVIs together.
I suggest that you record it at a higher resolution than it will be played so that you don't loose too much with a generation.

Of course you do know that AVIs take up more space on your hard drive, don't you?

[edited by - smiley4 on April 22, 2003 10:37:07 AM]

Adobe Premiere does the tric really well

Assuming you make the AVIs using the same codec (ie. DivX 5) and they are of the same resolution and framerate you can join them without recompression (no loss) using free tools like VirtualDub. Just open the first file, use Open Append to attach the others, then select "Direct Stream Copy" from the video menu and save.

Yeah, virtual dub works great. For additional info on video related stuff, go to www.vcdhelp.com.

Actually, if you use the .mov architecture, you can also string them together in quicktime...

Whats your planned output method?

How I do my animation work... I render my squences out, with field render set to lower and uncompressed (codec = none). If I''m planning on JUST showing this on the web, Sorenson Video 3 is an excellent codec as well that just about everyone will have.

I, personally, edit in final cut pro. Quicktime is a fast way to throw things together too.

Macs rule.

Thx for the help guys,
My output method is AVI, but I''ve got it sorted now anyway.
Gav.