CS5 - Animation

I am trying to make a cinemagraph using stills. I have a picture of the Statue of Liberty and would like to get the clouds in the background to move. I have created a mask and have fiver or six different movements of the sky.
My question is: how do I get the different sky movements into layers and how to I get them into the animation palette. I can not find any tutorials that are clear enough.

Yes I have consulted HELP. I have found the fly-out menu previous to this post, but can't seem to put it all together.
I have five photos - each with a different postion of the sky. They are all open in CS5. I can get the first photo in the animation palette. When I attempt to get the second picture in the palette that is where I get confused.

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Thanks for the reply Linda
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I'm working on a stop motion animation (made with photos only) for class with added drawn on animations. It's been working out fine until now. Since the animation is long, I cut everything into short sequences so I know length is not an issue. Here's what's wrong: I've arrived to a part where the drawn part of the animation gets more important and therefore more detailed. The animated sequence when played with CS5 looks fine, more or less fluid, maybe a little laggy but it looks good. The problem is, when I export > render video (I choose AVI and it's been working fine), the end result is disastrous and looks nothing like what was played in photoshop. Originally the viewer should see a mass turning into a girl who then turns around and it looks good in the program but on the rendered video the shapes sort of leak into each other and don't evolve properly (it's difficult to explain).
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Try using Adobe Premiere when making animations.
Its so easy, to use and very good results.
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Click on the screenshots for larger views.
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PSE 9 cs5 Animation fehlt

Hallo Zusammen !!
Ich bin neu in Sachen PSE und wollte eine Animation nachstellen, die ich bei Youtube gesehen habe.
Leider musste ich feststellen, dass unter der Rubrik "Fenster" das Feld "Animation" nicht vorhanden ist.
So war es aber in dem Tuto zu sehen...
muss ich dafür was umstellen oder die CD nochmal einlegen und die Rubrik neu zu gestalten
oder hab ich gar nen Fehler im Programm???
Habe mir das Forum angeschaut, aber einen Thread darüber noch nicht gefunden,
bin wohl die erste mit so einem Problem.
Falls Jemand eine Lösung für mich hat, oder eine Idee wie ich da ran komme,
vielleicht braucht ich das Feld ja noch nicht mal um eine Animation hinzubekommen?!
würde ich mich freuen.
liebe Grüsse
Gabi

Danke Mylenium !
Ich bin also nicht in der Lage eine Animation zu erstellen???
Gerade deshalb hab ich das Programm aber gekauft...der Verkäufer hat es mir sogar empfohlen
In der Animation ging es um die Schrift...ein Wechsel aus Hallo und liebe Grüsse...als Beispiel.
Zum Anderen wollte ich Schrift mit beweglichen Sternchen versehen oder ähnlichem...Schnee rieseln lassen...glitzern lassen...
kann ich das damit gar nicht machen?
Dann hat man mir das Falsche verkauft
Danke für Deine Hilfe
liebe Grüsse
Gabi

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