Animated GIF?

jerrys

Senior Contributor Location: New Britain, CT, USA (between New York and Boston) Joined: Feb 10, 2010 21:36 Messages: 1038 Offline

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Dec 14, 2010 15:29

Is there any way to get PD to treat an animated GIF as an animation, or do you (as I suspect) have to convert it to a movie-type format with an external program? Jerry Schwartz

1Nina

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Dec 14, 2010 15:39

Just been working on that...
Rendering in PHSH does not help much, tried mp4,avi- no
luck so far in finding the "formula".
Some gifs work, other does not-
yet to find out why.
Just something.
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jerrys

Senior Contributor Location: New Britain, CT, USA (between New York and Boston) Joined: Feb 10, 2010 21:36 Messages: 1038 Offline

Dec 14, 2010 16:26

What I'm trying to do is get myself a flickering candle to use, but the only free ones I can find are animated GIFs. I'm not going to pay USD 40 for a one-time use on a video of my mother-in-law's birthday.

Not that she isn't worth it, it's the principle of the thing. Jerry Schwartz

Dafydd B

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Dec 14, 2010 16:52

Hi Jerry,
You'll need to convert the animated gif into an avi - try and select the Lagarith codec (64bit PD9 will see the video) which is available free off the web.

Your avi will then be accepted whatever frame size it is. Do NOT create an mpeg as the frame size may be rejected in some form (colour issue or display appearance) even if you could import it. the mpeg thing happened to me in previous PD's I haven't tried it since... lesson learnt.

Chrome key out the background.

Dafydd

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vn800rider

Senior Contributor Location: Darwen, UK Joined: May 15, 2008 04:32 Messages: 1949 Offline

Dec 14, 2010 17:00

Try filming a candle - a bit like this old idea - and playing with the effects.

http://seemyworldonvideo.com/view/303/striking-the-match/

Sorry to resurrect it!

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Dec 14, 2010 18:35

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