NAME

shoot − shell script to dump pix to  tape

DESCRIPTION

Shoot displays a series of pix files to the Iris console and triggers an animation controller. 

USAGE

shoot root_file_name start_num end_num multiplicity timeout

DESCRIPTION

In this script, examples of three devices are given.  You must edit the script to ensure that the device (Vas, Minivas, Abekas) you are using is the one which is uncommented and the others are commented out. A pound sign ( # ) in a shell script means that the characters which follow the  sign  are not meaningful to the shell. Therefore, the devices wich you are not using should have a pound sign in front of the lines which pertain to them, and the device which you are using should not have the pound sign in fron of the particular line. 

EXAMPLE

To dump an animation which was rendered on two’s composed of 30 frames called bounce.1 ... bounce.30 to tape, sleeping 7 seconds between frames to allow the VTR to preroll, you should type setntsc <cr> (to set the frame buffer into video mode ) and then shoot bounce 1 30 2 7 When the dump has finished, you should set the display to hi-res by typing set60 <cr>. 

COMMENTS

Since this is a shell script and not a ’C’ program, there is no version number.  However, please use this copy rather than any old ones lying around. 

Version .1  —  December 29, 2021