Animating a Logo

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Animating a Logo

Postby -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.

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Postby 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?


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Postby -MajinLink- » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:21 pm

To some extent, yes.
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Postby Pwolf » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:26 pm

-MajinLink- wrote:To some extent, yes.


what versions?

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Postby Emotive » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:34 pm

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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.
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Postby LivingFlame » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:39 pm


And that, my friends, is how you make a tutorial. \o/
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Postby -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
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Postby 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.
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Postby -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?
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Postby 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.
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Postby -MajinLink- » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:32 pm

All right, thanks, Cast to Stone. Just one more question if you don't mind. My image is a .PSD and when I import it into Adobe Premiere the background becomes all black. I want to work with a transparent background... Possible?
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Postby LivingFlame » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:39 pm

Turn the .psd's background layer off in Photoshop. Save. >_>
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Postby -MajinLink- » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:47 pm

I'm actually just working with the .PSD alone on Video 1, it's not overlaying anything. Like I mentioned early, I want to export every single frame from the motion sequence as a logo with a transparent background.
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Postby Emotive » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:16 pm

I see what you're trying to do now.. but I do believe you can't export something with a transparent background from premiere.
Best thing to do would be to make whatever you want to make in Flash (or anything else) without the .psd logo, save the video, import it in premiere and add the logo there.
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