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Topic: API for view - video export

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maltejhmlch (Over 1 year ago)
Hello is there a way to "record" a move through a photosynth?
Final objective would be to render out a video,
be through screen capture or maybe even some native export feature...
Nathanael (Over 1 year ago)
Hello, maltejhmlch, 

There is no native export-to-video feature. Much of the joy of using Photosynth is the ability for the viewer to look at what they please in the order that they wish - in other words, the interactivity. Recording a video of a photosynth or a panorama removes this interactive nature, so I am not clear why this is a desirable feature.

If you wish to record a video of a synth or a pano, though, there is certainly nothing to stop one from doing so. Here is a topic where I explain how to use Microsoft Expression Encoder to screen capture a tour of your synth or pano: 
http://photosynth.net/discussion.aspx?cat=ceca0f30-0f7c-4468-811a-32b623ea8563&dis=25c42db3-f350-44b2-acdc-f307aaa819e1

If you are a programmer or know anyone who can code in Javascript, there is an API to control the Photosynth viewer via JS.
http://photosynth.net/api/docs/default.html
Nathanael (Over 1 year ago)
The closest thing to exporting the raw photosynth data to view offline comes in open source exporters from the Photosynth community.

Most only export the point clouds from synths, however Henri Astre of the Visual Experiments blog also created a tool for downloading the original resolution images. He also wrote his own offline Photosynth viewer in Ogre3D. Find out more at http://bit.ly/photosynth-toolkit

Other earlier notable exporters which Henri's toolkit builds on top of include: 

SynthExport by Christoph Hausner: 
http://bit.ly/synthexport

BrowsePhotosynth by Kean Walmsley: 
http://bit.ly/browsephotosynth

As of yet, no one has modified Henri's PhotosynthTileDownloader to save the full resolution cube map for panoramas, though, so PhotosynthToolkit is really only useful for photosynths at this point.
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