Photobooth timeline project
Do you take a lot of pictures with photobooth? If so you may want to check this out.
Here’s how I did it.
The first step was to start up photoshop CS3 and get all of the photos for the animation into one photoshop file.
file–>scripts–>load files into stack
Next I examined the layers and the order they were in. I rearranged the layers that weren’t in correct order until they were… From there I opened up the animation window since it wasn’t already available to me
window–>animation
From the animation palette I chose the funny little button at the top right which gives the user more options. If the palette is in the weird timeline mode that I don’t understand use the funny button and choose to convert to frame animation.
Next use the funny button and choose “create new layers from each frame”
Now you have an animation. You can select all of the frames in the animation and change how long they last at the same time. I chose .2 seconds. next you can arrange the frames if you’d like Lastly you’ll want to export it. You have a few options… like a HUGE gif file… or you could make a video like I did.
file–>export–>render video
There you go… the first video I rendered was 166mb which is a bit large. It probably would have been a good idea to change around the QuickTime settings before rendering. Instead of going back to remake the video I ran the file through a program called visual hub and had it make a good quality h.264 file. That file ended up being 4megs.
