This tutorial is written by Icelady Design. The tutorial is mine, but what you make, is yours to do what you want with it. This is how I make those small animations. First of all - you'll need Video Pilot or a similar program where you can splitt the videos into frames. You can download VP here. It's not longer a freeware as it use to be. :o( To make the animation, you need a program for that. I use Animation Shop from Jasc. It's comes with Paint Shop Pro. You can download AS from here. Unfortunately I am not able to get all my mpeg to work in VP. Don't know why... But I've solved the problem. I use Video Workshop to convert videos into mpeg. For some reason it seems like Video Pilot handles those converted files better. I also cut the part of the video I want to use in the animation. No use for the whole video tho *lol* This is how it looks when you open your video in VP:
The buttons are - from left: play, pause, stop and next frame. Don't mind the fifth button, but the sixth is for open in new window. This one you need to press for every frame you want. Start by playing the video. Press pause-button when you get to the part you wanna make the animation of. You'll hardy get to the right spot, so use the slider to slide a little bit backwards and start pressing the next-frame-button till you get to the first frame you want to start with. When you're ready, press open-in-new-window-button, file > save as > give the frame a number (01 or 001 - depending on how many frames), change file-format to jpg and save in a chosen folder. You don't need to save each frame. It will work just as good to save every other frame. Sure save you some work as well *lol* This is how it looks when you open the frame in a new window:
As you see the image got the name from whatever you named the video + framenumber. I change framenumbers to 01, 02, 03 etc... If you loose track of the frames or anything else happend so you need to open the video again, check the frame-number, and you will always find back to the right frame again - so you wount have to start all over again. *grin* After finished all the frames you want, it's time to continue working with the images in the program you usually use for handling your pics. I use Paint Shop Pro, and what I do is to resize each frame to the size I want. Since I use PSP, I choose save as and the fileformat psp (Animation Shop is a part of PSP, but works as a stand-alone-program s well). If you use another program - such as Photo Shop or Photo Impact, you need to save the files as gif's in order to be able to open them in AS. Time for a short break. Grab something to drink or eat. I'll have a coke while watching Dan *SSSSSSS* Ready for the animation part? Launch Animation Shop and start animate by choosing Animation Wizard:
Then follow the screenshots picture by picture...
Press neste... and keep doing it till I tell You otherwise...
How long do you want each frame to be displayed? This will be fix when the Wizard is done. You have to check the animation before you deside what speed suites the anim...
Add the images by browsing the folder where you put them. Mark all the images - by click the first one, then hold down shift-key and click on the last one - and VOILA, you got them all selected:
And open...
As you can see number 01 is at the bottom and the last one - number 60 - is at the top. Move them in place by choosing Move Down for image 01 and Move Up twice for image 60. Press neste...
And fullfør. Now the animation is ready:
View the animation by pressing the film-ikon:
The next thing to do is to change the speed - if necessary. Mark all the frames by choosing Edit > Select All. Rightclick on any frame and choose Frame Properties. Type in the number of your choice:
I have chosen 1 on mine. Then Edit > Select None. Go to the last frame and mark it by clicking on the frame. Rightclick again and choose Frame Properties and type in a number between 250-300. This will give the animation a short break between the end and the beginning. View it again. The speed depends on how many frames you did use. Every single one - or just every other frame, like I told you about in the beginning of this tutorial. Now it's time to save the animation. If you need any help or things doesn't work, just send me a mail *S* ~ Happy Creation ~
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