Animating a Logo

-MajinLink- · Post by **-MajinLink-** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:04 pm

Basically, what I want to do is take my PNG image, overlay it on top of a video sequence, and slowly have it shrink in size.

How would I go about doing this?

I do have Adobe Premiere and After Effects, by the way.

Thanks!

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:05 pm

<i>I do have Adobe Premiere and After Effects, by the way. </i>

do you know how to use them?

Pwolf

-MajinLink- · Post by **-MajinLink-** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:21 pm

To some extent, yes.

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:26 pm

-MajinLink- wrote:To some extent, yes.

what versions?

Pwolf

Emotive · Post by **Emotive** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:34 pm

Also to make it slowly shrink in size, click the little button left of "motion". Adjust the value, go a little further to the right on the timeline, adjust the value again and you've got the size changing progressively.

Should be similar in most versions.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:39 pm

Cast to Stone wrote:http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2170/motion1me6.png

And that, my friends, is how you make a tutorial. \o/

-MajinLink- · Post by **-MajinLink-** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:33 pm

Is anyone here familiar with Macromedia Flash?

So, I got a PNG image (logo) and I created a motion tween with it. For a period of 50 frames, it decreases in size. Now, what I want to do is export this entire sequence as individual PNG images, each image representing a frame in the tween process.

Can this be done? I hope I made this relatively clear... x_X

Emotive · Post by **Emotive** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:59 pm

You do mean you did it in premiere, right?
If you did in macromedia flash can't help you there, though then you'd be asking in the wrong forum anyway. :p (though the way you say it it sure sounds like you made it periodically shrink in premiere, in the way that I mentioned before)

Anyway, if you want to export individual frames for premiere, go to file-export-frame on the far upper left (shortcut: ctrl-shift-m). You're going to have to scroll through the timeline and export each one individually, unless a filmstrip will do (in which case the shortcut is ctrl-m , click settings and select filmstrip). I don't think you can extract .png's from premiere, at least not in my version (premiere pro 2) - you can choose from bmp, gif, targa and tiff.

-MajinLink- · Post by **-MajinLink-** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:07 pm

With Premiere, is the only way to go about shrinking the image frame by frame done by cutting up the image into singular frames on the timeline and going Effect Controls > Motion > Scale and gradually lowering the percentage?

Emotive · Post by **Emotive** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:18 pm

No, why don't you try playing around with it a bit instead of asking every little thing? If you set a keyframe (by pressing that little circular button to the left of motion, you enable keyframing and set a keyframe) and set the value to something, then go a few frames later in the timeline and set the motion value to something else, the size will gradually decrease from the first value to the second value, in the timespan between the two frames.

So if you want to decrease the size from a value to another value in 50 frames, set a keyframe in the first frame, setting the value to something, then go 50 frames later and set it to the value you want it to reach in the end. It will gradually decrease.