Adobe ImageReady Animation Question

Squashua

I have an image.

It's some text on a solid background.

And I want to animate it rotating around a central axis.

What's the best way to do this?


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Possibly need to capture some audio from somewhere too, and do a whole flash or video thing, but that can come later.

Szechuanosaurus

Can't do sound in Image Ready AFAIK. Rotating this thing is going to be a case of duplicating it onto loads of layers and then creating as many frames, hiding all the layers, then going through each frame in turn, revealing one layer, rotating it a bit, hiding that layer on the next frame and revealing the next one and rotating that a bit more.

If you do want the animation be in Flash, just forget imageready and do it in Flash from scratch. Flash has much easier tools and shortcuts for doing stuff like rotating objects.

Squashua

Does Flash export to a video that might be youtubeable?

Szechuanosaurus

I think YouTube's video app is actually Flash-built so...probably.

It exports to Quicktime, which I imagine is the defacto format for uploading to YouTube.

flatlinegraphics

is this a flat image? ie, the text and the image are on a single layer? if so, you are setting your self up for alot of work. remember, if the image is flat (no layers), there is nothing under the text. you can sit there with the clone tool for a couple of days, but you will never get the original image back. once you lift the text to its own layer, you will have a hole left on the bottom (image) layer. and once you start rotating it, you will be showing gaps.

assuming that you have a layered image, do you want to rotate on the x/y, or along the z? is it just spinning on top of the image, or do you want 3d-ish spinning in space? spinning on x/y is fairly easy. on the z... now you are going past imageready and into aftereffects territory. adding sound also brings you into aftereffects territory.

flash will export to video, as will imageready, which can then be imported to flv.

sorry if this doesn't help much, but you are asking a fairly involved question. not necessarily hard stuff, just alot of grunt work.

Squashua

flatlinegraphics wrote: »

is this a flat image? ie, the text and the image are on a single layer? if so, you are setting your self up for alot of work. remember, if the image is flat (no layers), there is nothing under the text. you can sit there with the clone tool for a couple of days, but you will never get the original image back. once you lift the text to its own layer, you will have a hole left on the bottom (image) layer. and once you start rotating it, you will be showing gaps.

assuming that you have a layered image, do you want to rotate on the x/y, or along the z? is it just spinning on top of the image, or do you want 3d-ish spinning in space? spinning on x/y is fairly easy. on the z... now you are going past imageready and into aftereffects territory. adding sound also brings you into aftereffects territory.

flash will export to video, as will imageready, which can then be imported to flv.

sorry if this doesn't help much, but you are asking a fairly involved question. not necessarily hard stuff, just alot of grunt work.

It's just going to be a single word of text.

In white, slightly blurred, on a black background.

Rotating and maybe flipping on a 3d circular axis in the middle of the image.

No need to be professional quality, just web-viewable.

Was thinking animated gif, but I can find a way to capture the audio I need for this sequence and would like to apply it as well, which means... video or flash of some sort.

Mostly concerned about getting the text rotating angularly on an axis.

MJ

X and Y axis's are easy to animate text on but to try and go in 3d around a z-axis in a 2D graphics program like fireworks isn't easy and near impossible. You can try skewing the text and seperating layers to make the text appear to go into the background and all that, but it's only going to look as good as a star wars intro.

If I had this task I would use a 3d animation program such as 3d max, import the picture in on a plane and animate the text around 3d space in that. Sure it will take like 5 minutes, but programs like that aren't cheap.

Ataxrxes

If you have access to it you should probably use AfterEffects. That program will allow you to do everything you want. You could even link your animation to the audio if you wanted that sort of behavior.