Animation and Adobe Tutorials After creating some image sequences in adobe Photoshop extended, it is time to import and edit the video images based on the x-sheet we created earlier. There are different ways to import video files and image sequences. But here I am going to reload it directly to layers palette. In doing so, do the following.
1. Choose File > Scripts > Load files into Stacks.
2. Browse the location of files, Select all the frames (images) and hit OK.
3. Make sure the layers palette and Animation palette are opened.
4. To edit our images based on the x-sheet( the x-sheet can be created in any editing software such as Take5), first we need to set up the Document. Do the following…
5. On the upper right corner of the Animation Palette click the palette menu. Choose the Document Settings … and set the duration and frame rate.
Animation palette appears normally in “frame mode”. Click on the small button placed on the right down corner to switch to “timeline mode”. On the upper left corner appears the “current time”. Hold down the Alt-key and click on the digits to toggle switch.
6. According to our x-sheet, there are 12 fix frames (freeze frames) of “Animation-1”. The other images have been added two at a time except for “Animation-6”.
Select all frames, then from menu bar select Layer > Arrange > Reverse.
7. Select all frames except “Animation-1” and “Animation-13”, and then from Animation palette menu select Extract Work Area (This would duplicate the entire selected frames).
8. Select Both “Animation-6 “and apply “Extract Work Area” again.
9. As you may see from the x-sheet both frames “Animation-7” and “Animation 8” are duplicated and then shifted to another level.
Select the “Animation-7s”, and then go to Animation palette menu and apply “Extract work Area. Select just two of the “Animation 7” hold down the Ctrl key and click on “] “to shift the selected frames between “Animation-8” and “Animation-9. Do the same for “Animation-8” and shift it one level up between “animation-7” and “animation-9”.
10. Now, make sure all layers except the “Animation-1” and “Animation-13” are selected. Go to Animation palette menu and select “Make Frames from Layers”.
11. 6. According to our x-sheet, there are 12 fix frames (freeze frames) of “Animation-1”. To add these frames to Timeline-panel, place the Timeline Indicator on frame 12 and drag the end of the layer duration bar to frame 12. Select all frames except the first and the last one and drag them to the right, so that frame “Animation-2” comes after the first frame. Place the frame 13 also after frame 12.
12. On the animation palette select all the layers, and also do the following.
From the menu bar choose Layer> Smart Objects > Convert to Smart Object …
Now you are able to apply Filter effect to entire animation sequence.(optional).
13. To add the Title, select the Type Tool and write the Title.
Here we are going to animate the opacity of the title in order to fade-in.
Move the time line indicator to the frame where the fade begins, and then click the Stopwatch to add a key frame. Go to the layers palette and reduce the opacity to zero %. Then move the time indicator to the ending frame and set the opacity for the same layer to 100%.
14. To render the video go to File > export > Render Video
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