Mood Theme: Animated Donna Noble (Doctor Who)

[cowboyhd]

Mood Theme: 132 Animated Donna Noble From Doctor Who
Image resolution: 100x58
Filesize: Average - 185KB, Min - 31KB, Max - 362KB, Total - 23.90 MB

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[cowboyhd]

thank you :D

I use Photoshop CS3 to make animated moods/icons :)

[cowboyhd]

I suck at tutorial but I can explain bits and pieces if you have any questions :D

I cut up the part of video that I need into small clip, then I load the clip into cs3. It will already be laid out as animation frames. They are about 640x360 at this stage (You should have original size about 2 times of what you want to resize to, so you could get a nicer cleaner result, unless your source is really clean).

After I crop, I resize the whole PSD (I select "bicubic sharpen" when resize so it would sharpen a bit since I'm too lazy to go sharpen each layer one by one later even though I should so it'd be a bit more sharp *bad me* ^_~) Then I add some coloring layers on top like color fill (set to soft light), hue/sat. to add some saturation, curve to add some contrast. Hope that explains a bit. Let me know if you have any other questions.

If you don't mind posting some sample to show a bit of what exactly is the problem I could try to help look. :)

[cowboyhd]

I normally use Sony Vegas. You could also use Virtualdub or Virtualdub-Mod if you don't have Sony Vegas. Also any video editing programs would do if you are already familiar with some.

A little note, it's probably better to save the clip as uncompress video, it will be quite large but you don't have to worry about quality loss and CS3 would have a better compatible to load the clip.

[cowboyhd]

If you wanna try Virtualdubmod (it's very small) there is a good guide to cutting video here. The guide is for Virtualdub but they're pretty much the same, but Virtualdubmod also support mpg/vob files (Virtualdub only support avi). One small change from the guide would be instead of selecting "Direct Stream Copy" you need to select "Full Process Mode" so it will output uncompressed video which CS3 can read.

Also, depend on whether your videos are avi or mpg, you might need to correct aspect ratio in CS3 before start cropping/resizing.

[cowboyhd]

oh no problem at all

[cowboyhd]

I'm a bit confused. So can you now open the clip in CS3 after cutting with Vegas? or do you need to convert again?

It shouldn't need to be converted again, kinda weird. Does your render setting look like this?

[cowboyhd]

How about this, change the video format from "Uncompressed" to either "Intel 4:2:0 Video V2.50" or "Microsoft Video 1" (make sure you set quality to highest on Microsoft) and see if CS3 will import any of those. I don't think converting to Divx again is a good idea even if the converter work fine, since it's pretty lossy quality. Anyway, Vegas should be able to output Divx too, you could try that and see how it goes if Intel/Microsoft fail.

Again, no worry, I'm glad to be of help. Let me know if they work or not. If all fail then there's still a choice of using Virtualdub and output the clip into sequence of screencaps and then you can import those into CS3 as layers.