[one09jason]

I need a little advice.

I'm trying to make some QuickTime movies from a series of still images taken off webcam. QuickTime itself seems the perfect tool, because you can use the "Open Image Sequence" command which does exactly that - take a series of single images and turn them into a movie. I'm doing this with images that are taken every 30 secs for 24 hours (2880 images), and each image is about 76 kb. However, while it works just fine most of, I'm now getting all kinds of errors. One I get when rtying to export the movie into a compressed format:

"Couldn't export the movie "paddyscam2" because the compressor found that the image data may be corrupted"

This happens with every CODEC I choose.

Another happens when playing the movie - I get an unexpected quit.

I'm assuming that this is because the movie is just too big. Can anyone recommend a better application for doing this id QT itself can't handle it?

Thanks.

[Nap]

I don't think your problem has any thing to do with number of frames or their file size. I took a 320x240 movie, exported 3:12 minutes worth at 15FPS as an image sequence to get 2880 frames, each of which in pict format was 220Kbytes, and then was able to import as a new image sequence with no problems. Well, let me reprase that. Minimal problems. The problems I had were that the numbers QT added when exporting as an image sequence contained no leading zeroes and so things got a bit out of order when I imported the sequence. But I didn't get the kind of error messages you are getting. QT created a movie file that played without any error messages.
You do have to be careful that the sequence number is the only number in the file name. Don't include a date or other number. Also, make sure the images to be imported in the sequence are in a separate folder that has no other files in it to confuse QT. It works best if the files are similar to this: image001.jpg, image002.jpg, image003.jpg, etc.

[Super Glitcher]

you could always make an animated gif and film it with yer handycam