[Xerte] Re: Creating Animation

Rick Ashby ashbrix at gmail.com
Sun Aug 10 17:07:26 BST 2014 

The Open Broadcaster Software is an nice open source alternative to
Camtasia. https://obsproject.com/


On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 1:11 AM, John Doubleday <john at southcom.com.au>
wrote:

> Hi All,
> this thread is so long I have lost the beginning, but have just come
> across the use of Prezie and any video editing software to create an
> interesting 'animation' In this case *PREZIE AND CAMTASIA AND SCREENCAST
> <http://www.screencast.com/users/johnryanshaw/folders/Change_Mgt_Videos/media/988ea439-1368-4069-9c21-09d0ff688316>*
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> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 9:44 PM, John Bijnens <johnbijnens1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  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.
>>
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>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
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>> <xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Smith, John
>> Sent: 04 July 2014 10:21
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> 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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>> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [
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>> Sent: 04 July 2014 09:48
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>> To: Xerte discussion list (xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk)
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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?
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>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Julian
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