[Xerte] Re: Creating Animation

Pat L (pgogy) xerte at pgogywebstuff.com
Fri Jul 4 13:13:24 BST 2014 

Would an animated gif maker be a good template?


On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Alistair McNaught <
Alistair.McNaught at heacademy.ac.uk> wrote:

>  From a non technical viewpoint I do this sort of thing by
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> ·         setting up a bespoke PowerPoint slide (maybe 6 x 8 cm page
> dimensions)
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> ·         drawing the first frame
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> ·         duplicating the slide
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> ·         making the small changes needed for the second frame
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> ·         duplicating the second frame
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> ·         repeating
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> ·         save finished presentation as gifs
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> ·         use free tool like Photoscape or UnFreez (both portable so no
> admin rights needed to install) to determine the frame delays between them.
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> ·         Save as animated gif.
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> ·         Add to any relevant Xerte page
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> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> 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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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
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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
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> 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
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Ideas?
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> Thanks,
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> Julian
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