Moving Image Workshop.

-In layouts for motion, consider:

 -PAGE SIZE

-FRAME SIZE (width and height)

-PAL (UK Video Standard)- : The Frame size of PAL video is ALWAYS 720 pixels x 576 pixels.

-Frame rate: 25 frames per second

Despite the standard frame size for PAL being 720 x 576 pixels, when you resize your images ensure that you maintain the constraint proportions as it otherwise may stretch the image too much.

Resizing an image:

Image>Image Size

View>Actual Pixels (this will show you how big the screen actually will be)

-ALWAYS ensure that the image is in RGB, as you are desigining for screen. Photographs are RGB by default-

In Photoshop:

Window Option>Actions (this will lead you to a set of Photoshop instructions- record and apply to other images in a click(!)- with the ability to edit multiple pictures at once).

'Create new action' (at bottom of the action palette). Re-name: RESIZE FOR PAL.

Then click 'Record'

Image>Image Size>720 x 540 pixels> OK

This will "record" in the actions bar. 

Save the resized images in a new folder so that you always have the original. 

File>Save As>New Folder>Resized Stills>Save>Close Image.

Click stop button, the action is now recorded.

Test the action works, select action, press play.

BATCH OPERATIONS...

File>Automate>Batch...

Action>Resize for PAL.

Source>Folder>Choose> (Your Stills)

Destination>None. (All of your info. contained in our action)>OK

-ALWAYS KEEP THE NAME AND NUMBER OF THE IMAGE SEQUENTIAL (e.g. 001,002,003,004,005... <-- always have to have the same number of digits)

Open application>Quick Time Player 7

File>Open Image Sequence> Select first image in the list (Quick Time player will realise they are all in the sequence and play them all)

At this point we can choose ANY frame rate to determine the speed we wish the video to play at.

Here, I sequenced the eighty images together to make a 25-frames per second video.

Again, I sequenced the images in exactly the same way, but at a much slower rate, with just 10 frames per second.

I edited these images slightly, by creating a new layer with a blue hue over the top of the original image- making it look cross-processed with an increased level of saturation, with the faster speed of 25 frames per second.

Again, I translated the same methods as above, but again, experimenting with a 10 frame per second speed.

I found this workshop incredibly useful, so much so, that I am beginning to wonder how I have managed to cope without it all of these years. This new knowledge will undoubtedly help me in many areas of film and photo editing work, and I really look forward to both next week's workshop, and a lifetime of experiementing ahead of me!

FOR NEXT WEEK: organise my own primary source images to manipulate and create my own short animation, relevant to my Collection 100 project briefing.