<div dir="ltr">Would an animated gif maker be a good template?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Alistair McNaught <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Alistair.McNaught@heacademy.ac.uk" target="_blank">Alistair.McNaught@heacademy.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>From a non technical viewpoint I do this sort of thing by
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<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>setting up a bespoke PowerPoint slide (maybe 6 x 8 cm page dimensions)</p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>drawing the first frame</p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>duplicating the slide</p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>making the small changes needed for the second frame</p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>duplicating the second frame </p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>repeating</p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>save finished presentation as gifs</p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>use free tool like Photoscape or UnFreez (both portable so no admin rights needed to install) to determine the frame delays between them.</p>
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</span></span></span>Save as animated gif.</p>
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</span></span></span>Add to any relevant Xerte page</p>
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<p>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
<a href="http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_477" target="_blank">http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_477</a> where the beach transect process is illustrated.</p>
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<p>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...</p>
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<p>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:
<a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10711" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10711</span></a></p>
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<p>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?</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Ideas?</p>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
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