PD & Animation (Tutorial)

PDtoots

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Jul 29, 2012 20:18

Members -

Most of us would use a toolkit of software to supplement everything that PD can do with video editing.

Occasionally, questions arise about the use of animated gifs in PD. Though PD will import the .gif file, it is only able to display the first frame.

We have a new tutorial on the PDtoots channel that illustrates how animated .gif files can be applied in PD. Even though the toot is based on questions about creating animated logo globes, it shows how separate frames of .gif files can be imported into PD & used as part of a video.

►►► A quick & easy way is to use the set of individual frames in PowerDirector's Time Lapse slideshow template.

It's here... http://youtu.be/GQvhfhN3IPs

Tony (for PDtoots)

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CubbyHouseFilms

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Jul 30, 2012 03:38

Great stuff Happing editing

Best Regards

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1Nina

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Jul 30, 2012 03:58

Very nice, Tony !!

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Dave456

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Jul 30, 2012 08:17

AWESOME!

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James1

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Jul 30, 2012 15:16

Nice work Tony! I use a program from Xara called Xara 3D faily inexpensive and outputs to avi ,swf and gif.
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Michael8511

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Jul 31, 2012 12:22

Thank you for showing us that. I played around yesterday with it some. I'm a learning.
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Kmot

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Jul 31, 2012 14:28

I got THREE, count 'em three new free software programs from that Toot!

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Jul 31, 2012 16:17

It's all good fun, & just puts another "trick" into the toolkit. Glad you're enjoying playing with it.

I'm attaching a "high" resolution circle mask that was used in the toot. It provides a crisper edge on the globe. The mask & thumb goes in C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDirector10\Masks

Michael - on your posted examples (great job!), it might be worth just slightly shrinking the circle mask to take out the white edges.

Cheers - Tony


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Dave456

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Jul 31, 2012 17:56

Thank you kind sir!

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Michael8511

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Aug 01, 2012 09:27

Thank you again Tony. I got it.

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