[Xerte] Re: Creating Animation

Fri Jul 4 12:44:47 BST 2014

Thanks for sharing.
Very interesting. I hadn't thought about using software like Photoscape or UnFreez to determine the frame delays.
Great idea.

Best regards,

    John Bijnens

On 4/07/2014 12:44, Alistair McNaught wrote:
>
> From a non technical viewpoint I do this sort of thing by
>
> ·setting up a bespoke PowerPoint slide (maybe 6 x 8 cm page dimensions)
>
> ·drawing the first frame
>
> ·duplicating the slide
>
> ·making the small changes needed for the second frame
>
> ·duplicating the second frame
>
> ·repeating
>
> ·save finished presentation as gifs
>
> ·use free tool like Photoscape or UnFreez (both portable so no admin rights needed to install) to determine the frame delays between them.
>
> ·Save as animated gif.
>
> ·Add to any relevant Xerte page
>
> There is real advantage in using PPT to create the frames because it is really familiar to people, flexible and easy to use. It doesn't allow onion skinning 
> etc but I've produced several things using this approach -- see slide 4 of http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_477 where the beach transect process is 
> illustrated.
>
> A
>
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
> Sent: 04 July 2014 10:21
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Creating Animation
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> I've often thought that we could use a page type that allows you to then add sub elements (media) each with their own script to control or a predefined script 
> (such as move to the left, etc) and possibly a timer to tell the page when to run the script... shouldn't be that hard to do something like that...
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney 
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> Subject: [Xerte] Creating Animation
>
> I'm just wondering what approaches people use for this sort of thing: we have a lecturer who wants to create animation simply. He's currently using powerpoint 
> to create this sort of thing: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10711
>
> I think the results are really good, and it's taken some time to get right. I'm interested in optimising the approach a bit, to make it fast and efficient: 
> maybe this is the best way of doing it, maybe there are others?
>
> What I'm interested in is what approaches / tools do people use for this sort of thing? It doesn't have to be high end output: it could be a mixture of screen 
> capture, whilst dragging things around and narrating the process for example. We're not looking to turn staff into Flash developers, it's more about simple 
> approaches that are easy and quick to do.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Julian
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