Here's a tool that comes in handy if you need to view your images sequences.
Tobias Kummer writes:
A really great (free open source) tool for previewing image sequences is Djv. You can find it over at http://djv.sourceforge.net/. It sports very cool capabilities to cache them in the RAM and play them fluidly (even in FullHD). Djv runs on all 3 mayor platforms natively, Solaris is also supported.
Histogram, color picker, frame cycling, playback of Cineon and OpenEXR files and many other features are also at your fingertips, making it an all-around solution as an image sequence viewer.
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Djv is awesome.
But why should'nt we use the Video Sequence Editor in Blender? It can also handle Image Sequences..
It's a good thing to have a choice, isn't it?
Blender's VSE by far can't do the stuff a dedicated Image Sequence flipbook can do.
And I'm not even talking about speed. The VSE is terribly slow.
I need to compare two image sequences, can Djv do this ?
Unfortunately there is no documentation and I can't install the x32 deb build ("wrong system architecture")
just install it using dpkg with the option to ignore architecture, don't really know it from the top of my head.
Just do a 'man dpkg'.
Thanks, I'll look into it.
when you discover Djv, your digital-life change radically !
It's not updated since 2009. I suppose it's not a major problem, but...
I thought this was commonly used in place of the Blender Player,. I'm surprised to see the comments. This is the first thing I change in my prefs for Blender when I use a new build. What are other people using?
BTW it's a great img viewer! it even allows you to save out into video clips.
I also was astonished that many people didn't know about djv (that's why I wrote this blogpost). It's awesomely fast and does everything you expect it to do. It would be great if someone took the project and implemented OpenImageIO and did some more development on it. But it's worth gold as it is now already.
If you look at the right of the downloads you can see a graph of recent activity. It seems most 32bit Win users went for the pre-release and most 64bit Win, Linux and Mac users went for the stable version. Hobbyists going for the biggest number vs experienced users going for stability?
I have been using djv for almost two years. Amazing little program, can change the speed of playback, play reverse, change the framerate, can even handle EXR files at 30 fps.
But doesn't play sound, correct? Otherwise, it looks good. Are there editing features? Tried saving and just got error msg's. There seems to be no "help" on their site.
.zip for .8.3 pre 2 works for me
Now i won't have to render sequence files just to view them realtime!
beats fcheck in every aspect
I used, Blender for my image sequences, but now - i need another disk occupy soft, that i do not need ;) but if its free? why not. Even if i have hundreds of open soft on my desktop, and use only couple of them. But if someone have tested that Djv is more powerful than Blender VideoSequencer (you can view your sequence in real time in Blender in one window, and in other you can do your models - if i'm wrong, correct me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSuY9pRSg2U - but i steel, probably test that Djv. Thnx for share this Soft
Very nice, just tried it.. but "coming soon" documentation? what the...
Does anybody know how to change fps?
nevermind, I just maximized the window and saw it
you can change the playback speed in the left corner to every fps you like. there are also some presets in a flyout menu if you click the arrow next to the fps field
I really love using djv but unfortunetelly the program isn't updated since almost 2 years. I think there are still some features that could be added like the abiity to draw or write notes into the viewer and export those to sent it to another artist. It would also be nice to have color management so that I can view my After Effects Exports like they are intended.
Djv constantly crashes in my Ubuntu 10.04. At roughly the same time, I found out that Mplayer is a lot better sequence viewer than Blender 2.4 and a lot more stable than Djv. I use it until now, and haven't found better alternative since...