Posted: 7/1/2006 6:01 AM
Post subject: I want to make some gifs to show some glitches, help?
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deepbluevibes
Joined: 6/27/2006
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I'm doing a shinobi III speedrun pacifist mode + barebones, and in doing so i've had to use a lot of unorthodox methods to get around speedily to make up for time where i lost it in other places. So, i found a couple of glitches/odd things you can do to cut your time down/make the run more interesting, and I wanted to make gif files of them. So two questions: 1) what the heck do you guys use to render videos in gens? any codec I seem to use like divx that works normally, or even uncompressed, when I try to put it back into adobe premiere, it screws itself. I've been working with film for a couple of years so I know my way around codecs and all of that; so i'm wondering, do you all use some special codec for this stuff? >< 2) what do you guys usually use to make gif files? i can use adobe but it's not that great.
Posted: 7/1/2006 8:05 AM
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The favored codec is H264. Someone else will have to answer on how to use it effectively. Since I usually only want animated GIFs of short segments, I just take a bunch of screenshots and crop/animate them with ImageMagick convert.
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Posted: 7/1/2006 8:53 AM
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NrgSpoon
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The way I would do it, I'd capture uncompressed AVI of the part I want, and that way Jasc Animation Shop can load the avi file directly. I've had issue using some with different codecs but uncompressed always works.
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Posted: 7/1/2006 10:13 AM
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deepbluevibes
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That's the thing, uncompressed *doesn't* work for me when i'm using gens. Any other suggestions on this "H264" codec or where I could find it?
Posted: 7/1/2006 12:35 PM
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deepbluevibes wrote:
That's the thing, uncompressed *doesn't* work for me when i'm using gens. Any other suggestions on this "H264" codec or where I could find it?
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Posted: 7/1/2006 2:28 PM
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>1) what the heck do you guys use to render videos in gens? You mean the output from Gens is screwed up? No idea why that happens or how to fix it, but it seems people have interpreted your question differently. For 2), GIF animations, at least for FCEU and Snesx9, can be exported directly from a hacked version which some people here have. I don't know about Gens.
Posted: 7/1/2006 9:32 PM
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deepbluevibes
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i just used huffyuv, that worked. would never work for a full video but worked great for a gif.
Posted: 7/1/2006 9:43 PM
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Use Techsmith's Camtasia Studio for Capture -> AVI -> Gif
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Posted: 7/1/2006 9:52 PM
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Spacecow
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Camtasia might not be favorable for capturing the glitch itself unless you have a very fast computer, because it records in real time and might drop frames. For making GIFs, Camtasia does an okay job, but I prefer to use Adobe Imageready since its editing/timing/optimization options are much more robust. You can import AVI files directly into Imageready too as a bonus. If nothing else, if the glitch is not too long, you could just make a new folder somewhere, go frame-by-frame in Gens, and take a screenshot for every frame. Imageready can import an entire folder for use as frames in an animation as well.
Posted: 7/4/2006 7:23 AM
Post subject: hmm
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I open the avi file with irfanview or crystalplayer, save the frames as images, resize them with irfanview and finally make the gif with the gimp.
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