We are looking for a plugin that will let us create an animation of the visible point clouds.
The plugin for will allow the user to create an .avi file based on a series of keyframes that the user can set based on how they want an animation to proceed and then the software renders the file into a video (or at least a whole series of still images that can be converted to video by a 3rd party software). A description of keyframe animation can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_frame.
We are willing to pay some funds for the development of this functionality. Is there somebody or a company that would be interested in taking this on?
The functionality that we want is as follows:
Workflow:
1) The user activates the plugin which shows a dialog box with an empty list of keyframes.
2) Using a button on the dialog box, the user has the ability to set the current view as the next keyframe.
3) The user can then proceed to rotate, zoom and translate the view and then click the button to set the current view as the next keyframe. Next to the keyframe entry in the dialog box there needs to be the ability for the user to indicate how many seconds it should take to get to this keyframe from the last keyframe.
4) The user should be able to delete keyframes that they do not want and have the ability to insert keyframes in the middle of the list of keyframes.
5) A second button on the dialog box should be a "render video" button. This button should prompt a file save dialog box to open allowing the user to select where to save the rendered video file (or series of still pictures).