How to make moving pictures, Harry Potter style!
By DIY Maven
Have you heard? The latest Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, opens today, and Photojojo is celebrating in the most magical way. They show us how to make moving pictures, just like in The Daily Prophet. For you Muggles, that's the newspaper that serves as the vehicle for the Minestry of Magic to disseminate its agenda, which should not be confused with The Quibbler, the wizarding world's equivalent of The National Enquirer, which actually reports a factual story now and then. (TMI?) Anyhoo, the photographs in the newspapers move like short films that are on a loop. They're very cool, and now, thanks to jojo's tute, we can make them! This is what you'll need to do it:
- a digital camera
- a tripod
- a computer with, at least, basic video editing software capabilities
- a digital photo frame
- this totally awesome tutorial on Photojojo
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Runeshai
Haha, or you could check out the article where they say what programs they use. Silly me.
Runeshai
It looks like a bunch of still photos layered and then fading from one to the next. Photoshop used to come with an app called ImageReady that would do this. I think Fireworks basically took that over, but you can use Flash or Premiere, After Effects, probably even some free programs to do this. I'd look into VirtualDub or GIMP to start with.
DIY Maven
I'm guessing one clip cut up into several and then made into a loop.......maybe.
Carrie Nilles
Does anyone know how thry managed the shakiness of the example?
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