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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ulundel on January 23, 2003, 01:13:31 pm

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Ulundel on January 23, 2003, 01:13:31 pm

Is there a way to turn still images into animations and make them fade in or out? Or if not animation, then just frames... :)

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Stealth on January 23, 2003, 01:14:05 pm

Flash

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Ulundel on January 23, 2003, 01:15:24 pm

And can you save them as different frames using flash?

Any other ways BTW?

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Stealth on January 23, 2003, 01:17:48 pm

if you have an animation, you can save each frame as a seperate SWF, GIF, JPEG, or whatever


so yeah, you can

EDIT:  or you can export the complete animation as a GIF, etc. etc. etc.

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Ulundel on January 23, 2003, 01:19:48 pm

I'll think about it.

But first I'll trying to find a way to do it myself. ;)

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Stealth on January 23, 2003, 01:20:51 pm

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Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
I'll think about it.

But first I'll trying to find a way to do it myself. ;)

!?

are you implying that i'll do it for you when you haven't even asked?

download the Flash demo, and do it yourself, that kind of thing is incredibly easy

if you want i can post the steps what you should do, it's like 5 steps ;)

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Ulundel on January 23, 2003, 01:22:54 pm

:wtf:

cool down man...I'm saying I'll think about using flash

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: kasperl on January 23, 2003, 01:28:06 pm

trie animation shop, it comes with PSP, it's nit that great for anything really big. (longer then 1min or bigger than 800*600). but it's great to create a slideshow like thing woth some basic effects. it's slow as heck without enough ram, i think 128 is a minimum.64 will work, but it gets unreliable.

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Ulundel on January 23, 2003, 01:32:15 pm

Sweet. It works. Thanks dude :)

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: kasperl on January 23, 2003, 01:35:49 pm

what method worked, stealths or mine?

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Ulundel on January 23, 2003, 01:37:55 pm

actually noones. animation shop's good but I doesen't have the fade effects. or at least I can't find ones.

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: kasperl on January 23, 2003, 01:41:04 pm

right click in the animation

click "insert frames from file"
select the images you want

rihgt click again
click "insert image transition"

do what like

done

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Ulundel on January 23, 2003, 01:43:43 pm

But what I have is just a single jpg image....

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: kasperl on January 23, 2003, 01:44:54 pm

then you select, either as beginning or ending frame, either an empty frame or opaque color.

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Stealth on January 23, 2003, 03:19:24 pm

do it in Flash man, trust me:

you want an image to fade out/in?  like this? :

http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/fadeinandout.swf

?

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Ulundel on January 23, 2003, 03:20:23 pm

yeah, I'll try :)

interesting...I just lost about 20 posts...

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Kamikaze on January 23, 2003, 06:22:38 pm

I'm pretty sure it's possible in SVG 1.1 for XML...

(www.w3.org)

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Black Wolf on January 23, 2003, 09:53:22 pm

Call me hopelessly outdated, but I do all my fading in manually with opacity and layers, :) in PSP.

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Ulundel on January 24, 2003, 08:15:26 am

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Originally posted by Black Wolf
Call me hopelessly outdated, but I do all my fading in manually with opacity and layers, :) in PSP.

Usually me too. But it'd be hell to make hundreds of frames manually.

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I'm pretty sure it's possible in SVG 1.1 for XML...

I'll check it out

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Setekh on January 25, 2003, 05:31:08 am

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Originally posted by Stealth
do it in Flash man, trust me:

you want an image to fade out/in?  like this? :

http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/fadeinandout.swf

?

If this is all he wants, SwisH would be better - so much easier. ;)

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: ZylonBane on January 25, 2003, 10:44:17 am

/me kicks Ten of Twelve for not specifying the target media

Do you want to deliver this fade animation to a web page? A video file? A stand-alone executable? What?

Your question is like asking, "I want to attach two things together. How do I do it?"

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Stealth on January 25, 2003, 11:15:19 am

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Originally posted by Setekh


If this is all he wants, SwisH would be better - so much easier. ;)

Why?  from what i know SwIsH is like coffeecup firestarter... it saves to SWF format, but with a very easy to learn interface, right?

cause in Swish he'd get the very same thing, at best...

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Stealth on January 25, 2003, 11:21:26 am

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Originally posted by ZylonBane
/me kicks Ten of Twelve for not specifying the target media

Do you want to deliver this fade animation to a web page? A video file? A stand-alone executable? What?

Your question is like asking, "I want to attach two things together. How do I do it?"

True, but regardless whether he wants it for a webpage, video file, or standalone executable... Flash can export to all three formats :D ;)

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Stunaep on January 25, 2003, 11:22:18 am

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Originally posted by ZylonBane
/me kicks Ten of Twelve for not specifying the target media

Do you want to deliver this fade animation to a web page? A video file? A stand-alone executable? What?

Your question is like asking, "I want to attach two things together. How do I do it?"

My money is on CB anis. He's meddling with them right now

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Setekh on January 25, 2003, 11:13:58 pm

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Originally posted by Stealth
Why?  from what i know SwIsH is like coffeecup firestarter... it saves to SWF format, but with a very easy to learn interface, right?

cause in Swish he'd get the very same thing, at best...

Precisely. It's much weaker, but for things like text effects - where it's simply a pain to script every single letter if they're to do slightly different things - Swish does it all for you. And it's not like Swish would generate something sub-standard to Flash, it generates exactly the same thing (much cheaper, too).

Title: Fade in/out effects
Post by: Ulundel on January 26, 2003, 08:46:17 am

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Originally posted by Mulla Mohammad Omar

My money is on CB anis. He's meddling with them right now

Right you are. But I'm already using pixeleration effects.