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Thanks for sharing.<br>
Very interesting. I hadn't thought about using software like
Photoscape or UnFreez to determine the frame delays.<br>
Great idea.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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John Bijnens<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/07/2014 12:44, Alistair McNaught
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">From a non technical viewpoint I do this
sort of thing by
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text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span
style="">·<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 class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt;
text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span
style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"">
</span></span></span>drawing the first frame</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt;
text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span
style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"">
</span></span></span>duplicating the slide</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt;
text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span
style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"">
</span></span></span>making the small changes needed for
the second frame</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt;
text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span
style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"">
</span></span></span>duplicating the second frame </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt;
text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span
style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"">
</span></span></span>repeating</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt;
text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span
style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"">
</span></span></span>save finished presentation as gifs</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt;
text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span
style="">·<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>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt;
text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span
style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"">
</span></span></span>Save as animated gif.</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt;
text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span
style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"">
</span></span></span>Add to any relevant Xerte page</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_477">http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_477</a>
where the beach transect process is illustrated.</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">A</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Subject: [Xerte] Creating Animation</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">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:
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<p class="MsoPlainText">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 class="MsoPlainText">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 class="MsoPlainText">Ideas?</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks,</p>
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