Forays into Animation using Adobe Premiere Elements 7

[shrimpfarmer]

Great fun. It brought back memories of when I tried making my own animations using a cine camera. I will give your method a try. Things are easier now in the digital age, no more waiting for the film to be developed. Thanks for the tips.

[ArizViper]

You have my imagination sky rocketing. What kind of camera did you use? I have a Sony Cyber-Shot 12.1 megapixel digital.

Never been used yet. Just got it.

[GrandmaDorrie]

Hi there, I used a Sony Handycam and/or a Panasonic NV GS500, I can't remember now. Have fun with yours it sounds like a good camera. :)

[jocelynmuch]

so cool!

[GrandmaDorrie]

Thank you Jocelyn if you have any questions on this I will do my best to answer them for you. :)

[SuperBaconDude]

thanks now i can make my animation without having to resize each frames, thanks

[GrandmaDorrie]

You are welcome - glad it was of some help. :)

[sylvestermeow]

I bought PE7. My camcorder is AVCHD, and upon rendering choices have to be made: quality is lost (files are too large).

What would you recommend for good, widescreen settings, in AVCHD for a decent-looking film for, say Youtube. The default preset is lousy. It's a perplexing problem.

[GrandmaDorrie]

I don't know anything about HD, but I usually choose save for Personal Computer, then select MPEG and in the Preset, I use PAL DVD Widescreen, that fills the screen for YouTube. I hope that helps. :)

[jamesdp123]

very smooth and well done it helped me alot thanks

[GrandmaDorrie]

You are very welcome James. :)

[AmethystButterflyGrl]

Awesome and very interesting too. I had no idea the work that goes into those. I have a new appreciation. It looks like it could be fun too!

Lori :)

[GrandmaDorrie]

Thanks Lori, glad you enjoyed it. :)

[Nneka1963]

Hi GrandmaDorrie, thanx a million for that! My Brother wants to do animations, so you have helped me to help him the next time I'm back home in London!

Adobe Premiere Elements 7 I guess one can buy from PC World?

I love your accent! :D

[twish1999]

Hi Nneka!

I'd go to amazon for adobe premiere elements 7.0

cheaper than PC world!

hope you're doing ok, and Mum too!

:-)

x hugs x

[Nneka1963]

Thanx a million for your tip my Dear Twish!

I fine thanx and I hope you are too! Mum's flying in approx. 20 mins., back home to visit our Family in Irealnd!

Lot's of Love, hugs & kisses,

Your Nnek ;o) xxx

[GrandmaDorrie]

lol Twish - I love your animations that you do.

:)

Dorrie

[twish1999]

Wow! Impressive!

Now i know where to come for help when i try it :-)

[EmGeeDubyah]

That was both interestin' and informative Dorrie. I may have to check out Adobe Priemer Elements 7...It looks like alot of fun! Thanks for sharin' what you did. =) Peace, Love, HUGS & Happiness To Ya Friend. ~Michael~

[GrandmaDorrie]

I really like Elements - but I have always like photoshop and that helps I think, ver 7 is far better than my previous ver 3. :)

[DanielSayWhat]

That's too cool!

I did this with other objects a while back.. lol..

I might try it again, you've inspired me a bit. :)

...I also need to get Adobe Premiere too!

[GrandmaDorrie]

Adobe seems to be really good and if you buy the bundle with adobe photoshop elements too, you can edit things in adobe and the changes happen in elements!

[RiddleSpider]

Still nicely done. My boys are thinking about doing claymation, hoping whatever program I have will let them do it.

[GrandmaDorrie]

Claymotion sounds like fun. I once tried doing it with plasticine and it was so hard, I needed lights on the figures and they kept going soft and falling over all over the place, now that took a long time! lol And it never really worked. :)

[RiddleSpider]

One loves to create clay critters and the younger one writes mini comic books so I am hoping that between them they will make something worth all the work it will take to do it :)

[tallstevo]

is that your new tripod?

[GrandmaDorrie]

Yes, it's a cracker. One of the main things about it is that you can level the tripod head so you don't have to mess with the legs! It is very heavy though.

[tallstevo]

there's nothing worse than messy legs ;p that was you at the week end!! lol

[tallstevo]

Awesome Dorrie.. that looks like fun, it does remind me of how to make animated gifs in Adobe Image Ready, maybe it's a spin off as this is Adobe as well. can you change the time duration on individual frames? like in Image ready? .. (I can't do that in Vegas) very interesting :)

[GrandmaDorrie]

Hi Stevo

Try this:

Options > Preferences > Editing > New Still Image Length

Needs to be set BEFORE you drop the stills on the timeline.

and yes, I can. :)

[tallstevo]

what??? hang on... bloody hell... #fires up Vegas# .... oh yes, well i never knew that, thank you, have you got Vegas then?? I'm confooosed..

[GrandmaDorrie]

Well, there's this wonderful reference guide that I have, you might have heard of it, it's called the internet! lol

[BasicModelling]

Very informative indeed.. not that the open doors et.c bothered me, if anything I was impressed by it, as it made it look as if the camels were trying to break out, but could not push the doors open properly.. pushing aginst them ..

[GrandmaDorrie]

lol - I just felt it was way too distracting, but a nice idea! :)

[BasicModelling]

Well, that's how it came across to me, and my forst thought was: 'Very clever animation'.. then you said it wasn't supposed to be.. but I still think it is.. :)

[mysteryglo]

Wow Dorrie! That was awesome and very informative! I love learning new stuff. My son used to do a lot of stop motion animation! Takes tons of time and film! LOL good job!! xoxo

[GrandmaDorrie]

Because that was so short it didn't take too long and once you learn the software tricks it's so much quicker and easier.

:)

[Neferkit]

Wow! What a huge amount of work! You must have a lot of patience.

[GrandmaDorrie]

It wasn't really that long because it was such a short clip. Part of the reason for doing the video at all was that I had seen a video about there being no facilities for deaf people on YT, so I wanted to add the captions. I think I will do it better next time though.

:)

[Neferkit]

I've often wondered why YT doesn't offer something like closed captioning for the deaf, but I don't know what that would entail. Good on you for doing this. I look forward to the next one. :-)

[GrandmaDorrie]

I think probably all you would need to do is put suitable for hearing impaired in your tags. That's what I'm doing anyway. But they could provide a rating system whereby the person submitting the video could tick which classes it works for.

:)