Somehting I have done in the past is to hook up a VGA to TV converter or use a card with TV out. Hook that up to a VCR, etc and capture the output then recapture the footae. Not ideal but the frames work better.
Another way via lingo is to write a parent script that is set to save out images on stepFrame. Still nto 100% perfect but might get you closer and you can reimport the image sequence into something like premiere.
Lingomaster's suggestion about making it linear is likely to be the easiest approach but Director is not an animation tool. It is intended for interaction.
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by: LingoMasterPosted on 2004-12-11 at 09:55:17ID: 12800515
Some ideas:
If you could convert the audio timing to be simple linear score based animations and soundtrack then the build in export function could export to a video.
The second best choice is to iuse a 3rd party screen recorder, there are ones that can grab image in a designated screen area and sound. A potential problem is the added overhead of the recording process my prevent your movie from running real time. A super powerfulk system, perhaps recording to a ram disk might manage it.
If less than real time capture must be made, some ugly kluge would be called for, probably involving reassembing the video and audio externaly.
The audio track might be captured real tiime separately, with the proceor intensive video captured while slowing down your director file by a factor of 10 or so, readadjust the frame rate of the generated video in the utility's post capture processing, then edit back in the grabbed audio with a standard video editor tool. To get the audio based timing to translate to the slowed rate, you can slow down the score frame rate setting and replace all sound triggers (puppetSound, etc) with a subroutine call that places the sound in a cue and triggers it, enabling the RATE property to be set to play the sound 10 times slower.
Likewise to grab the fram images from a non linear animation, perhaps with dynamic elements like video or animated GIFs, a lingo script can be setup to export each frame to an external jpeg file using the free sharp export xtra, then import this image file sequence to video using a standard video editing tool.