- So the last thing I'm going to do is talk about how to export this. Now there's a few ways to do this. We can export as images,
we can export as movies. And there's kind of two
main ways to do this. Now, the first way I'm going
to do is talk about images. So let's say the right
perfect moment comes along, when I press pause, I'm like, "Yep, that's the thing I want to save." Obviously I can press pause
here, and say, don't do anymore. I can also press the
space bar here as well.
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So I can press space on and off to stop and pause the play line, as well. Timeline, as well. So, what happens if you want
to save this image here? Now weirdly, this isn't
called like image export, it's actually part of movie. So here I'm going to press tab, and I'm going to find my movie file out. Here we go. And I'm going to drop this here. This is why I want to file out.
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So I'm going take my over
output and put it into the input of movie file out, and over
here on the parameters, I can actually change this type
to not movie, but to image. I can change the image file
type to send like JPEG. I also want to turn on the unique suffix, which basically means
if I keep adding images, it will change the number at the end. So something like TD Movie
Out, dot one, dot two, dot three, rather than
zero every single time. So I'm going to turn this on. The next thing I want to do
is change the file output, as well, because I don't want
it to be called TD Movie Out.
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I want it to be called Alla-Prima. So I'm going to change
the thing in quotes here. So I'm going to change this,
when I double-click it, to Alla-Prima, and then press enter. And we will see here, that it will save these
images as Alla-Prima.0.jpeg. If I save it again, it will save it as Alla-Prima.1 and Alla-Prima.2. Just so I've got different
versions of the same thing. I'm not overwriting the same
thing every single time.
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And then save an image. All I need to do is click add frame. There we go. And where this will save
is in our art folder. So if I go into my art folder now, you'll see that I have my images in here. I must have pressed it twice. There's one, and there's the same one. And if I run this a little
bit longer and save there, let's say, let's add a frame. And then what we'll get in our
art folder is Alla-Prima.2.
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So I want to maybe put
in my flowers in here, and then click feedback. We'll pulse, we'll run
it a little bit to there. Press pause using space. And then we'll export another one. Add, and let's see the art that comes out of this, Alla-Prima.3. And there it is. Now there's obviously a way
to export this movie here. I can just type in movie and then click export type, movie, and then follow the instructions here.
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There is one other way
which I actually like more for doing movies. Images, this is the only way to do it. But for movies, I actually
like the other way, because there's a little bit more control, which is going to file,
and then export movie. What will happen is, this
thing will appear, up here, just going to drag it over, and it'll ask for a top video and
potentially a chop audio. We don't need to worry
about audio for now, but what I want to do is put
in my, what do I want to save? Well, I want to save this over.
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So I'm going to drag this in to top video. And there it is. It will automatically put in my resolution and all the stuff that I need, but it'll also put it into
the same kind of format. So here on my desktop, art movie out, I can then start running this. I'll press start, and this
will run for 300 frames. So this is now running for 300 frames. And what we'll get at the end, when I finish, now, is in my art folder.
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This one will be called MovieOut.1. And this will give me my image as a video. So I've got images and videos in here. Very easy to actually set
up how to export things. But this is how we actually
work with TouchDesigner. We have our kind of input textures. We manipulate textures, we
do different things to them. We add feedback loops, we add
some borders if you want to, and then we can export them at the end. So this is the basics of how we can make something
using TouchDesigner.
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We can add lots of kind of input fields. We can change how all these work. We can change all the
numbers to give us something very different every single time.
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