Exporting animated symbol to image sequence

Hi guys!
I'm unable to export an animated symbol to image sequence properly because the symbol does not animate.
I created the tweens in multiple layers, then cut-pasted all layers to a new symbol. I did this so I could then just do some tween motions on the symbol.
The tweening is perfect, but when I export the image sequence, the images do not animate the way it does on the Flash player. All I get is an image sequence with the tweened symbol, but the symbol itself does not animate.
I'd really appreciate if you guys could give me a tip on how to get the symbol to animate when exporting the image sequence.
Alternatively, is there a way to motion-tween multiple layers simoultaneously? (Layers which are themselves tweened)
Thank you guys!
Any additional info, I'll be checking regularly so I can provide as much description as possible to get this to work.

Ok, I figured it out!
I changed the symbol type to "Graphic," and I was able to see the animation in the timeline. Easy!
Now I just exported the movie to png sequence, and bam! Magic!
If anyone has this problem, don't hesitate to ask me and I'll ellaborate on what I did.
Thanks!

Similar Messages

How to apply animated effects to image sequences?

I've heard many times that, if a certain effect isn't available in After Effects, "it's no problem", it can be added later in Photoshop.
I understand that an image sequence can be created, imported in PS, the effect applied to all files then exported.
What I don't get is how can someone animate such PS-based effects. Let's say I want the value of a certain parameter of that effect to follow a sine Bezier curve.
How do I do that in PS?
Thanks.

Well... Seems to me you could do at least SOME automation with scripting. You could conceivably write a script that would drive whatever feature or plug-in you want to control across multiple images and feed slightly different parameters to it each time. You'd have to get into the nuts & bolts a bit... There's a scripting forum where they might be able to give you some additional ideas...
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop/photoshop_scripting
-Noel

Exporting Large videos as image sequences using Quick Time Convert

I am trying to export some fairly long videos as image sequences >10000 frames with Final Cut Pro using the quick time conversion tool.
I am working with SD and HD videos.
While some sequences export without error (both SD & HD) occasionally an "error" occurs which results in the 10000th frame (and in one case the 1000th frame) not being written. The File is opened as "MyVideoName#FFFFFFF.png" but no data is written to it. (Obviously it should be MyVideoName10000.png)
There is 500Gb of free space on the disk I am writing to.
At the moment I can't even work out why it fails in some instances - apart from the fact it seems to be related to the file name.
I would appreciate any help any one can offer!
Thanks,
John
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.8) FCP HD 4.5; QT 6.5

Thanks for your reply!
So far I've not managed to come up with a workable solution.
Exporting as an image sequence is infact a work around... I originally was planning to export the videos as uncompressed .avi files but (as documented elsewhere) this does not work for videos >10Gb.
Some videos have exported fine both those longer and shorter than 10000 frames. However, for some videos only the first 9999 frames are exported. As a workaround I was planning to export the remainder of the videos seperately (as a subclip) but this only managed to export the first 999 frames (the 1000th file opened is called MyVideoName#FFFFFFFF, but no data is written to it).
At the moment I can't find any explanation for the cause of this problem. Are there any logs or any way to get more detailed error information?
Thanks again for your help,
John

Transparency Issue when exporting Image Sequence

Hi,
I'm creating short anims which have transparency and exporting them as png image sequences. I'm finding two issues with the export though:
1) The first frame is always solid black (when it should be totally transparent)
2) The R,G,B channels of each image are multiplied by the transparancy. So for example if I want a shape that's 50% transparent and coloured red the png should be 255,0,0,127 (R,G,B,A). In fact what After Effects is creating is a shape that's 127,0,0,127 (R,G,B,A)
Does anyone know what this issue is and how to solve it?
thanks
Paul

You should not have any problem with PNG as you have no choice but to have the alpha to straight (it's on of the only codecs that doesn't support premultiplied). Do you have the same problem is you select tiff sequences (LZW compression if you don't have much free space).

Error 43 when trying to export movie to image sequence

Hello, I'm trying to export a movie to image sequence. I did this successfully on our other xp machine but am getting an error 43 message with this one. I have searched online and on the forums and can't find a solution. Help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sharon

Jenny, the solution for me was to save to the desktop. I can export when I save there.
Sharon

Exporting Still Image Sequence in Quicktime 10?

I've been spoiled by the feast of 'export as' options in every quicktime I've used before, especially exporting as a still image sequence. Just got a new macbook pro (os 10.7) that came loaded with quicktime 10, and now there are virtually no options for exporting. I also need to be able to import the still image sequence again back into quicktime. Is it possible to run an older version of quicktime? Or is there another way to do it in the new version? OR is there some free program out there that will let me do the same thing?
Thanks
Nate

Is it possible to run an older version of quicktime? Or is there another way to do it in the new version? OR is there some free program out there that will let me do the same thing?
You can run the QT 7.6.6 Player Pro app under either Snow Leopard or Lion. Both QT 7 and QT X players can be installed simultaneously. The QT X.1 Player app does not have this feature. MPEG Streamclip will open a sequence of images but has a fixed frame rate unlike QT 7 Pro which offers user selectable frame rate options when opening image sequences.

Applescript Quicktime export movie to image sequence

I am having troubles with Quicktime 7.1 and Tiger using Applescript.
Ultimately I want to export a movie as image sequence as tiff at a certain fps.
I've downloaded the Applescript/Quicktime script collection. When I try to run the "Export to DV Stream.scpt" script, it gives me "an unknown error occurred"
Looking at the event log, the problem with their file is on the line
"export movie 1 to new_file as DV stream using settings preset "NTSC 44.1 kHz"
If I truncate the options at the end to say "export movie 1 to new_file as DV stream"
it works fine, but then I can't select presets.
I don't want to export as DV, rather as image sequence, I thought I could just modify script to read
export movie 1 to new_file as image sequence using settings {Format:"TIFF", fps:15}
It compiles fine, but saves images as .png at 30 fps,
I've studied the dictionary, but didn't get anywhere.
Thanks in advance
Kevin
Dual 1 ghz G4, mac mini, 15" Powerbook, intelimac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Something definitely got hosed in QT 7.1's scriptable interface. A script I had running perfectly in 7 broke on 7.1. I basically just shuffled objects and commands around like you did until I it finally worked. :/ If you have a copy of the last version handy (perhaps on one of your other macs) then I suggest loading and using that for now.
Edit: Oh yeah, and you can't specify settings the way you have it as a record ({Format:"TIFF", fps:15}) even though that compiles, the dictionary states that the 'using settings' parameter is a file containing settings. You would create such a settings file using another script with the 'save export settings' command (note this only saves the most recently successfully manually-attempted export settings)

Exporting image sequence (tga filetype)

Hello,
I'm using Apple® Motion 5.1 on Apple® OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks.
I can only export a project as image sequence with the following filetypes:
DPX Image
JPG Image
OpenEXR
Photoshop® File
PNG Image
TIFF File
How I can export the project as TGA filetype image sequence?
Thanks.

This is correct, Targa is not an option for export from share in Motion. My first question would be, is TGA an absolute requirment or preference? PSD,TIFF or EXR should pretty much be equivelent and and just as well supported in any app that reads image sequences. If TGA is absolutely required, and you have Compressor, you can use Send To Compressor for share. Then add an image sequence preset. Inside compressor you can change the file format to TARGA.
If you don't have Compressor, and again, TGA is an absolute requirment. I'd recomend exporting to tiff and then using a third party app to convert to TGA.

Export as image sequence - image size

When I export images using the export via Quicktime as image sequence. The size of the jpg Files is always 560x960. But the movie is in HD (720x1280).
Why is that? Where can I adjust this? Anyone an idea?

FCP doesn't work with any of this media in their native formats, which I suspect is the cause of your problems. The sequence settings won't match so you should make sure everything's rendered.
BTW do you really mean 720x1280? A tall thin sequence.

No export image sequence option

I'm running 10.0.9 and under File>Share there is no Image Sequene option. How can I export clips as an image sequence?

You need to Add Destination and pick image sequence from the selections on the right side of the dialog. Set your image properties as well. PS - you can add as many "destinations" of the same type as you like and customize the export properties.

How can I import image sequences into Fireworks???

How can I import image sequences into Fireworks???

I quote:
Not specifically "import" but you can open a series of images as an animation. This will place each image in its own state, suitable for creating an animation.
Choose File > Open
Select the images
Enable Open as animation.
Import image sequence (CS4)

Jumpy playback from image sequences rendered in Apple Prores and then exported to h264

I will start by saying I have been using FCP since 1.0 and am in no way new to this software, but this issue has me going crazy.
First the Specs:
MacPro 2 x 2.66 Quad cor Intel Xeon
16 gig Ram
OS 10.9.2
FCP 7.0.3 (sorry but I am not a fan of FCP10 at all)
In other words, a beast of a system that has played back everything I have ever built on it for years until now. So now for the issue: I work with an amazing 3D Max builder and we have created a building animation exported from that program into and image sequence ( we have tried JPG, TGA and PNG still all with the same effect). I open Quicktime 7 Pro, build the image sequence, save as .mov, import into FCP and drop it into my 1080p30 Apple Prores (HQ ... we also tried SQ) timelines. The timeline renders perfectly and I can play the video perfectly through my system out of Firewire 800 to my Motu V4HD device which then converts the signal to HDMI to my 55" LED TV. The video and playback is perfect.... until:
If I try to play back the same exact time line into an exported video file, the file will play back with random jumpyness in it. I say random since you can play it back 10 times and it will hiccup during playback at different spots in the video. If you review every frame in the file though using Quicktime 10, 7 or VLC viewer, every frame is perfect. So, it must be the data rate right? Wrong. I have exported now to H264 MP4, M4V, MOV , ect, etc at different data rates from 4mb to 40 mb per second. They all have the same randow jumpyness to it. So it must be my computer right? Nope. I have a Macbook pro that is more powerful than this machine and I rebuild the file using the same method (something I have done a thousand times before) and the exported file does the same thing on that machine. I had my friend do it on his machine... same thing. ERRRR....
We have even tried using After Effects and Premier to the same result. Rendered it straight from Quicktime Pro, same. Rendered it to 720p30, same. Render it to 24fps, same. I had another editor render it using whatever methods he wanted to use... same. Tried Compressor, SAME. Tried Adobe Media Encoder, SAME......We even, god forbid, used a PC running Premier and built the image sequence and rendered to h264 at 30fps, 5mbs.... @#$@#$ SAME!
We just remade the 3D Studio Max export into a 60fps animation since I thought that the individual frames we appearing too far apart and thus causing the jumpyness. That was causing the playback of the upclose objects flying across the screen fast to appear jittery, but not the random playback jumps. The 60fps did smooth out the animation greatly during fast flybys, but the playback jumps are still there in all players, QT, VLC, the web, etc.
I was starting to think this issue is realted to Mavericks, but since the PC did the same thing that is not it either. I have linked a sample of the clip below exported to 720p30, 25mbs... something that is much smaller than the original and should playback smooth very easily on any of my systems.
FYI: I have now opened numerous projects I have edited over the last few years and noticed that all of them are now jumpy, so this isn't just an image sequence issue. While the other projects don't use image sequences and instead are shot footage edited together, there is still the random jump (far less than the image sequence as you will see) but they are now there... ***? I have cleared preferences in FCP which helps for a short period of time, but once exported I get the same glitch.
As I said... I am stumped... ANYONE have ideas for me to try?
Here is a sample file for you all to see and please tell me if anyone does not see the issue after playing it several times in a row.
www.media3lv.com/switch/NORTH-sample-720p30_25mb-sec.zip
One last thing to note... my main goal for these videos is YouTube or Vimeo playback via our company website. I have a few other animations online right now using YouTube and the problem is also showing there. At first I thought it was just my videos, but I have looked at numerous YouTube videos now showing 3D animation and alot of them are jumpy.
www.supernap.com/supernap-building-design.html
www.supernap.com/supernap-tscif-exchange.html
These don't show the issue as bad since the camera fly is much slower, but why is this occuring and is it coming from my source, or is this a known youtube issue? I can program this using out own modules, but YouTube and Vimeo allow for multiple resolutions and a checker script which makes it easier to share over all devices at all quality up to 1080p.
Advice is welcome and appreciated?

I have tried at actual, full screen, using 1080p30 size from the original compressed to 4mbs (something my system can handle without blinking), 720p30, etc. etc. etc. Nothing stops the jumps. Even the activity monitor shows only 5%-15% processing being used by QT and/or FCP.
I plan to pull my old G5 out of the closet, it runs 10.6.8 and is still rock solid for video editing in FCP7. If it plays smooth on that 8 year old system then I know it's Mavericks. I'll try that tonight. It floors me though why the original 1080p30 will playback perfect via FCP and Motu, but once I turn of external monitoring and just try to play it via the preview monitor it is jumpy as **** and then the exported file does the same thing. So strange. I even deleted prefences of FCP and that does help with screen playback initially, but it always gets jumps in it after playing for a while.
I knew I should not have started using Mavericks and I HATE FCP10.

How do you export a movie to an image sequence in iMovie 10.0.4?

Hi,
I'm trying to create an animated gif. In order to do so I need to export my short two-second movie as a sequence of .jpg's or .png's. This was possible in earlier versions, but I can't find it on this one.
I'm using an iMac with OS 10.9.4 running iMovie 10.0.4
If it isn't possible in iMovie 10.0.4, is there another way to create a sequence of images from a short movie using native tools?
Thank you!
Clara

claraefrona wrote:
Tis a brand new Mac. We didn't update so we don't have the older version.
I see.
I know that QuickTime Pro can do it.
https://www.apple.com/quicktime/extending/
But that's a $29.99 purchase.
Not sure about the regular QuickTime Player 7
QuickTime Player 7 for Mac OS X v10.6.3 or later
There's also something called Movie2Picture in the Mac App store that I think will do it, but I have no experience with it.
Lastly, check out MPEG Streamclip it's free and I bet it will export to an image sequence, though I haven't tried it.
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
Matt

Could work an animated flash bitmap image exported in html 5, in DPS ?

I'm new in DPS, just started for a couple of weeks and I need to use a image in an animation.
I created the animation in inDesign exported in .fla, used de toolkit js, load it in a container with web content overlay, and when I preview it with Adobe Content Viewer it doesn't work, it apears a blank screen. Neighter of animation from that stage won't work.
To be very precise any animation works fine, when I test the html in a browser, the problem appears only in the content viewer.
The animation is very simple: smal logo entering in the stage from the right, not very complex.
I tried in flash with other images in a test file and loaded in inDesign, and still don't work. Other vector animation works well, no problem. I saw that if I have an image in library in flash and export a simple animation with a vector ball, won't work in indesign preview, with content viewer.
My question is, Could work an animated flash bitmap image exported in html 5, in DPS ? If so, what should I need to do ?
Thank you in advance.

Two possible solutions I was considering:
1) In my index/first page, have all the swfs present (scaled to 1x1, behind something, or invisible) and have a preloader code on that first page... so all the content gets loaded before continuing onto the rest of the site. That would certainly work in making the site run quick... but would mean a relatively lengthy wait at the start. Luckily, unlike my current site, all the actual site content (aside from the header/nav interface) is HTML... so the bulk of the site's content is in the HTML pages, not as part of the Flash header... so it probably wouldn't be too horrific a wait. However, it would be loading EIGHT of these swfs, since there are eight pages... so then maybe it would be....
2) Have an swf that consists of just the 'draw up' of the interface, and it's idle state... then when each button is pressed, load a new swf to replace the main one, which has the specific page's animated title sequence, and ends with the code to load the html page. So, each separate HTML page would have embedded into it only the main swf, and the title animation swf would be swapped in when a nav button is pressed. Main issue here is each button press would envoke a preloader sequence (kind of tedious)... and unfortunately all the 'main interface' elements loaded in with the main swf would have to be loaded in again at the start of each animated title swf (although none of the draw up... just the loading of the interface and buttons). For highspeed users, it should be okay, I guess....
Thoughts or better ideas?

Imported image sequence in PP CC 2014 causes animated layers to flicker

I have a project which has a primary layer formed of imported JPGs that are in sequence. These are shots from a time lapse and are sequentially named and imported without issue into Premier Pro. I then have a secondary layer with a simple After Effects composition that comprises a slow fade and animation of some title text. The problem I have is that during playback in PP (or once rendered) the animation of the text in the AA layer flickers. Watching it frame by frame in the preview window it is slowly fading in but each alternate frame it's opacity seems to go back one frame before advancing.
Now I can completely fix this by exporting the image sequence clip in my bin to a video file. If I then replace the image sequence with a video made using exactly the same images it works fine and the animation is perfectly smooth. My question is why does PP not treat the imported image sequence the same as a video with its interaction with other layers?

Hi there.
Looking at the footage, you are exporting at 24P. There are books written on 24P and how to shoot (or edit) for it. What I see as a possible mistake.
You are moving the photo too fast across the screen. That could be the same as panning too fast in 24P. Same result. The video clips are moving much slower and don't show the staggering.
Give it a try.

Exporting animated symbol to image sequence

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for