Video Question

NickKio,

When I do side-by-side animated GIFs, it's usually the brute force way. I export the video to frames (JPGs), then cut/paste each frame of the 2 players into a single frame, using my photo editor, then save a separate JPG. Then I just crank 'em thru Animation Shop.

Sometimes tho, I'll just use the split screen mode of V1 Home Ed. and take screen shots of the 2 players at once. This saves the step of pasting the 2 players together.

I haven't created split screen videos yet (MPG, MOV, etc.). However, I just read an article about how to do Picture-in-Picture (pIP) in Pinnacle. So I'll be trying this soon too.

I plan to answer tom.guerry's latest request on batspeed to compare Doug's son vs. Bonds from the catcher's perspective. Which brings me to another question... do you still have the clips of Brett (I don't see them on your page anymore)? Thanks.

Thanks Sandman! I will try doing it as you described when I have some time to experiment.

Nick

Sandman,

You wouldn't happen to have the link to that article would you? I have Pinnacle and would love to be able to do side-by-side video. I too do it the "brute force way" when creating animated gif's.

Jason

One more thing...

Nick, one of the big advantages to GIF files is size. Although you can create some pretty compacted video files when creating MPEG's. With animated GIF's you can still open them in Quicktime to view frame by frame.

How do you synchronize? My guess would be to find the release point on each image. That would be your starting point. From there you'd add back in the frames preceding that release point. At least that's how I do it with my software. I use Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0. Animation Shop may make this easier. I haven't worked with it before though so I can't answer that.

I'll play around with it a little tonight and hopefully be able to give you a more detailed explanation.

Jason

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Originally posted by FlippJ:
Sandman,

You wouldn't happen to have the link to that article would you? I have Pinnacle and would love to be able to do side-by-side video. I too do it the "brute force way" when creating animated gif's.

Jason

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Here ya go Jason:
http://www2.gol.com/users/spee/Studio/effects.htm#tips
http://www.mikeshaw.co.uk/new_page_1.htm#tutorial%20top

I haven't tried it yet though. Let me know how you make out.

Thanks!