How do you Save a PhotoDirector 12 - Photo Animation as a project (with animation data)?

Anastacia8178

Newbie Joined: Jul 06, 2022 11:29 Messages: 2 Offline

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Jul 06, 2022 12:36

Probably should've started a "New Topic" instead of replying on an old one..

Hello,

I'm using PhD 13 and I can't successfully "Produce" a movie of my photo animation. Projects aren't opening up with the animation after saving them, just a still photo with what would be the animation on them. I've tried adding background music to see if it would trigger the animation and still nothing. If I save it as a .GIF it will animate, but some platforms don't support a .GIF file.

Thanks in advance!

Anastacia

PIX

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 21, 2011 00:02 Messages: 2910 Offline

Jul 06, 2022 16:03

Hello Anastacia8178,

Welcome to the PhotoDirector forum

When you create an animation file under Guided > Animation Effects in PhD (which you've done), you can save it as a video file (.MP4 or .WMV) or as an animated .GIF file.

Are you saying that:

the produced video or .GIF doesn't show animation when played in other software?, or

you cannot import the produced file back into PhD?

Adding background music (as you've found) won't trigger animation. It's just an added effect.

Videos & animated GIFs can only be imported into PhD if you wish to use one of the Video-to-Photo options.

This is the statement that confuses me about what you're trying to do:

Projects aren't opening up with the animation after saving them, just a still photo with what would be the animation on them.

Once we understand the issue, I'm sure it can be resolved simply.

PIX PIX YouTube channel

Anastacia8178

Newbie Joined: Jul 06, 2022 11:29 Messages: 2 Offline

Jul 06, 2022 17:18

Quote Hello Anastacia8178,

Welcome to the PhotoDirector forum

When you create an animation file under Guided > Animation Effects in PhD (which you've done), you can save it as a video file (.MP4 or .WMV) or as an animated .GIF file.

Are you saying that:

the produced video or .GIF doesn't show animation when played in other software?, or

you cannot import the produced file back into PhD?

Adding background music (as you've found) won't trigger animation. It's just an added effect.

Videos & animated GIFs can only be imported into PhD if you wish to use one of the Video-to-Photo options.

""""""""

This is the statement that confuses me about what you're trying to do:

Projects aren't opening up with the animation after saving them, just a still photo with what would be the animation on them.

Once we understand the issue, I'm sure it can be resolved simply.

PIX

Hi!

My Macbook pro is playing the .GIF file in the default viewer with the animated sparkle effect, but will not play will not play the .MP4 file with the animated sparkle effect (I don't have the option to save it as a .WMV file). I have tried opening up the .MP4 file using QuickTime and Elmedia Video Player, and still nothing.

If I add another Light Effect>Bokeh, or add a Decortation>Overlay (sparkle) and it will save and the animation will work as an .MP4 file.

I'm not trying to upload it into PhotoDirector or any other programs for additional editing, only playback.
I hope my explination makes a little more sense. Let me see if I can attach it for more of a visual aid...

Filename	video.mp4	Download
Description	This is the .MP4 File won
Filesize	10520 Kbytes
Downloaded:	58 time(s)


Filename	fasterpresentsparkle.gif	Download
Description	This is the .GIF file that will load
Filesize	14351 Kbytes
Downloaded:	2 time(s)

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