From a Serie of Animation Images
from POV-Ray to a Video File

How to use Dave's Targa Animator (DTA) (free!)
to convert a serie of single numbered images to an avi video file.
Also as a base to create an mpeg file with other video programms.

Then unzip the file "dta30.zip" to a separate directory.
Move all numbered animation images from the POV-Ray output (sphere01.bmp, sphere02.bmp, ... sphere30.bmp) to the same directory.
(Alternatively move the DAT Windows files "dtawin.exe" and "zlib.dll" to the directory of your numbered images)

Step 1:   Start Dave's Targa Animator by double clicking on the file "dtawin.exe".
                  Fill in the field "Script" the base name of your images,
                  were the numbers must be replaced by the wildcard sign "*".
Input file types for DTA: .bmp, .jpg, .tga
New in POV-Ray 3.7: The default output file type has changed to png (DTA don't understand .png files!)
The POV-Ray output file type ".jpg" (new in 3.7) with a command line: +fj is okay with DTA.
(It's also recommanded because of the usually big number of frames in animations).
In POV-Ray 3.6 the default output file on Windows was ".bmp"  ! (command line: +fb nbsp;!)


Step 2: Choose global options (the blue ball button) and select the file format "avi" and click on "OK" button.


Step 3: The field "Output options" show now "AVI format".
                  Now click on the camera button to build the video file.
                  You will see the progress in the lower left field.
                  And there will appear a new file named "anim.avi" in your image directory.



Step 4: To see the video with the Windows Media Player just doubleclick on the file named "anim.avi".
                 To see a cyclic animation in an endless loop you will have to click at CTRL-T
                 or activate the endless loop in your player options.