Corinne and I attempted to put our storyboard into an anamatic in Adobe Premier Pro.
Go to:
New Project - to DV Pal - set to Widescreen 48kHz
Give file a name: rat titanic Press OK
Settings - to make sure the image is in the right format
1. PROJECT - SETTINGS - GENERAL
Tick the scale clips to project dimensions..... box
2. (Duration setting) EDIT - PREFERENCES - STILL IMAGE Default: 75 frames
(if this was for a full animation set to 2 frames) Press OK
3. FILE - IMPORT - select all images you want to import (all your jpeg frames) Click and drag to select all. Then click on OPEN. This will put them into the 'bin' top right hand frame.
To put your images in sequence onto the timeline click on the small picture next to the file name/image and drag this onto the 'timeline'.
Once the frames are on the timeline you can play around with the frame lengths.
Points to note
Time code is not obvious
It is as follows:
00. 00 .00 00
hours mins secs frames
1 second = 24 frames
There are 25 frames per second
so on the timeline it will go to 1.24 to 2.00 which represents 1 second and 24 frames... not 1.24 seconds!!
Move the cursor (vertical red line with blue diamond on top) along to where you want it to be on the timeline and then you can slot frames in against it. Click on the [ and ] to move frames along.
Corrine and I had worked out our frame times beforehand but decided that we would be better off playing back pieces and seeing visually if they needed more or less time and work to approximately 30 seconds in total.
I had got so frustrated beforehand that this was a better method.
On the Monitor (top right hand of screen) do a playback to get a feel of how the film will look. Put the curser (long red line with blue diamond top) on the frame you want to start from, press Play and see what works until your last frame. You can then alter the frame times accordingly. Keep doing this - practicing will help ingrain the processes.
Just as I had got to grips with dragging in frames and setting times, the last two frames were black on screen. It seems as if part of Video 2 timeline is corrupted? So I imported the last two frames onto Video 1 timeline - they appeared to be ok but 18jpg was black again!? No reason why. 19jpg was fine. Can't finish it off properly now.
You can see the black frame in the above print screen document.
You can drag frames onto any of the video timelines as long as they are in sequence. (though why 18jpg hasn't worked is more than I know because in the preview screen it shows up fine - and is not corrupted.
As in InDesign the programme only remembers the links you put access in the first place - so if you're dragging in photos from a memory stick, you must keep the memory stick in all the time you are doing your animation (I think). The access to these files must be the same - day in, day out - you can't move them from one location to another or the programme will not recognise them. I did take my memory stick out at one point but I re-imported them OK. On further investigation Julie discovered that the frames needed RENDERING for some reason.
Go to SEQUENCE - RENDER WORK AREA - this prepares it for viewing. And it worked!
Ran the animation through again - discovered a small gap between frames which I hadn't noticed. In order to see these, you must zoom in as they may not show up otherwise. I lengthened one of the adjoining frames to fill the gap.
To save animation:
FILE - EXPORT - MOVIE
Settings: Choose Microsoft DV AVI (or Quicktime) Check the settings are the same as you started the animation in ie, in this case Video; DV Pal etc.
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