Animated Movie-Clip Avatars

[Man1c M0g]

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[Bub]

Nifty tutorial -- I've always wondered how people made thse Good job mog!

[bana]

I'll translate asap ^^
Looks to be a cool tut, but i need to translate it to understand

Ok, i followed this tutorial in not such the same way but at the end it turned out good, the only difference between mine and this one is that it is bigger and it took me alot longer to create. well my problem is when i save it as optimized and load it onto Photobucket and view it there are some instances when there are some random interferences with white static looking frames what i want to know is how is it possible to correct this.

see pic below.

[Man1c M0g]

Originally Posted by Rye78

Ok, i followed this tutorial in not such the same way but at the end it turned out good, the only difference between mine and this one is that it is bigger and it took me alot longer to create. well my problem is when i save it as optimized and load it onto Photobucket and view it there are some instances when there are some random interferences with white static looking frames what i want to know is how is it possible to correct this.

see pic below.

For some odd reason two frames were corrupted, and the first frame was out of sync. If you just delete these frames it sorts out the issue! The root cause of the problem might be down to the color reduction method you used... although to be honest I've never seen PS do anything like this before!

thank you for your help, i just downed the colour modification thing and it fixed the problem, doing that i was also able to make it longer and i didn't have to fix any slids

Ok, I'm stuck :/ . I am trying to take a clip from 50 Cent: Bulletproof at http://www.50centbulletproof.com/us/flash.html , Game Trailer 1. Every time I copy the screen and paste it, wherever I left off in the video shows in the paste. And also I dont know if it's a problem but I had to move the canvas so it would match the video in the middle of my screen. Then, after I copied all of my screens,cropped the part I wanted, then moves my canvas to where the movie is in the middle of my screen, selected window>animation, I got this http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...dOut1/stuk.jpg . On my screen I seen the video on my canvas, but in my layers/animation they were all black...Please someone help, much appreciated.

[Man1c M0g]

Originally Posted by Nuffix

Ok, I'm stuck :/ . I am trying to take a clip from 50 Cent: Bulletproof at http://www.50centbulletproof.com/us/flash.html , Game Trailer 1. Every time I copy the screen and paste it, wherever I left off in the video shows in the paste. And also I dont know if it's a problem but I had to move the canvas so it would match the video in the middle of my screen. Then, after I copied all of my screens,cropped the part I wanted, then moves my canvas to where the movie is in the middle of my screen, selected window>animation, I got this http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...dOut1/stuk.jpg . On my screen I seen the video on my canvas, but in my layers/animation they were all black...Please someone help, much appreciated.

Hmmmm. Thats odd - for some reason your video in this case is showing in a window that cannot be screenshotted. This tends to happen a lot in videogames. My advice now is to find a professional screenshot-taking program, because it is obvious that the default windows tool will not work for you...

Ok I'll search google for professional screenshot-taking program thanks for the help.

yep had the same problem as the last guy that posted .. dunno if its a windows problem

but printframe and pasting takes forever ... heres a tutorial i wrote that isnt hard at all and you be done in minutes http://gamersevo.xeeblo.net/forums/i...?showtopic=196

[zapphnath]

Originally Posted by ROCKmyJOCKs

yep had the same problem as the last guy that posted .. dunno if its a windows problem

Hey all. I came here through a link to this tutorial from Pixel2Life and thought I'd sign up to answer this question a few of you have. This does seem like a nice place to visit, so I'm sure I'll be back.
Anyway...due to video acceleration - in which Windows simply puts a black box on the screen and allows the video card to overlay the image onto it, instead of diectly on the desktop - when you try to take a screenshot, in most cases, all you end up with is the black box.
There are a few ways to get around this. One is to get Media Player Classic, which is free and a very nice little app., which has a Save Image As.. function and a frame-step button, making this process pretty easy. (Not sure if it's okay to link to other pages from within this forum, but it should be easy enough to find).
Another way is to turn off video acceleration. In Windows Media Player, this can be found under Tools > Options > Performance - move the slider all the way to the left. You can't view it full-screen but you can take a screenshot. As for other players, one's which I may not be familiar with, you'll have to search for yourself to find out how to turn off acceleration.
Hope that was helpful.

hm.. I have a problem. When I right click on quicktime it doesn't move forward a frame. Do I need a specific version in order for this to work?

Ah, the silly questions of life.

[Man1c M0g]

Originally Posted by yunako

hm.. I have a problem. When I right click on quicktime it doesn't move forward a frame. Do I need a specific version in order for this to work?

Ah, the silly questions of life.

Yeah, its the version that displays in browsers, and NOT the standalone distribution of Quicktime. Its really irritating... I'm sure there will be an option to allow frame-advancing somewhere though...

ok the easiest way to do this is to save the trailer on your pc then open imageready then to go to file>open then select your trailer it should make a frame for each frame in the trailer much simpler then previously posted ways

Originally Posted by yunako

hm.. I have a problem. When I right click on quicktime it doesn't move forward a frame. Do I need a specific version in order for this to work?

Ah, the silly questions of life.

its not right click on the mouse .. its the right keyboard curser .. just press ur right keyboard curser and the player will move a frame by frame i hope this helped ..