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Rick Barnett
January 20, 2012 at 8:33 pm in reply to: Making complicated gif animation for signatures

I did figure out why the freezing image was in AF. I did not Export>render Video from PS.
Rick Barnett
January 20, 2012 at 4:52 pm in reply to: Making complicated gif animation for signatures

I have gone through many tutorials on the basics. After many hours I am still struggling.

I want to create (for a particular forum) animated signatures (multiple layers) that are restricted to 300px by 150px no bigger than 500kb. I am told this will work with no more then 20-30 frames total.

I have two video clips (.avi and .m2t) I converted both to .mov.

Using Photoshop 32 bit I imported each mov file with “Video Frames To Layers” and selecting every 3 frames.

I cropped the main as I only want a portion of the clip for the background. I then sized it to 300px X 150px.

I cropped the second clip about 75px X 75px. Can I assume in AF if I erase some edges of this clip it will do it to all 25 frames? PS will crop all frames/layers at once but the erase tool does not do this for all the frames at one time.

I then hand picked 25 frames out of each clip and saved each to psd.

I tried to open these files in After Affects but the preview window was frozen to a single image even when I moved the time line.

Am I going about this the right way? Could I have just as easily done the above Photoshop steps in AF’s? Or did I do wrong by saving to psd? PS did not let me save it back to .mov!

Please any help would be appreciated.
Rick Barnett
January 18, 2012 at 4:48 am in reply to: Making complicated gif animation for signatures

This is not for a web banner but for some forum signatures. These sites do not support flash for sigs…..only gif animation. Please a few sentences to get me started. regards Rick
Rick Barnett
January 17, 2012 at 5:33 pm in reply to: Making complicated gif animation for signatures

I do have access to Adobe AE. I never have used that program before. I hear its a steep learning curve. But a little help would be great. I did assume AE was the program for these things. I would think this is a basic for AE.
Rick Barnett
April 29, 2011 at 12:12 am in reply to: My first video project. Arrgg!

How do i get this Vegas project into DVD Architect? I keep failing no matter what I do. Rick
Rick Barnett
April 24, 2011 at 5:42 pm in reply to: My first video project. Arrgg!

Still confused on what will happen to the middle (2) audio that I do not want. When I try to delete it, the video gets deleted as well. I did d/l the 30 day trail of DVD-A. Do I have to do the project from scratch?
Rick Barnett
April 24, 2011 at 5:01 pm in reply to: My first video project. Arrgg!

Which audio will it take. The cameras audio I want tossed out the window.
Rick Barnett
October 13, 2010 at 5:06 pm in reply to: Simple DVD burn question

That would be great Dan…..much appreciated!!!
Rick Barnett
October 11, 2010 at 6:49 pm in reply to: Simple DVD burn question

Yikes! These are the basics huh? Is there a tutorial I can view on this? Or step by step instructions? I don’t want to do any adjustments to these .wav files, just want to transfer them to a DVD for TV viewing. Oh and the sound to work. 🙂 Rick