Category: dailycreate

Wiggle Gifs

I’ve been here before but a couple of wiggles jumped out of the photos app today.

Both were photos that the phone decided to take HDR photos and I’ve set it to keep a ‘normal’ one two. I’d obviously moved enough in the fraction of a second that separated the two images in each case. arrow-keying through the photos previewed me the wiggles. So:

  1. Export
  2. Open in fireworks
  3. Copy one image
  4. Make a new state and paste in.
  5. Export as Gif.

On the Hawthorn berries I did a quick copy of the sky from the first frame to the second to keep the background a little stiller.

A bit late for #tdc2098 We’re All Changing | The (new) Daily Create

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#tdc2034 Today be on the lookout for your one tree!

Prerequisites, you need ffmpeg installed. I did that with Homebrew .

In Photos app. search from Tree, this works pretty well.

Export all the photos to a folder.

You need to rename all the photos to be sequential, 0001.jpg, 0002.jpg etc.

So open the terminal and cd to the folder of images. Write the following to a file, rename.sh and run with ./rename.sh

a=1
for i in *.jpg; do
  new=$(printf "%04d.jpg" "$a") #04 pad to length of 4
  mv -i -- "$i" "$new"
  let a=a+1
done

This give you a nice sequence of images. I made an extra image with the music credits too.


then:

ffmpeg -f image2 -i %04d.jpg -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p trees-1.mp4

slow it down a bit

ffmpeg -i trees-1.mp4 -filter:v "setpts=4.0*PTS" trees-2.mp4

and add some music from an mp3 file in the same folder.

ffmpeg -i trees-2.mp4 -i Faster_Does_It.mp3 -map 0 -map 1 -codec copy -codec:a aac -strict experimental -b:a 192k -shortest tree-audio.mp4

Upload to YouTube:

5 minute job.

Cubomania revisited

A while back I did the daily create for 6 January 2014 Create a Self Portrait Cubomania Style. And knowced up a couple of quick web pages to make cubomania images and gif.

The other day I was messing about with some web pages inspired by the Universe app and was reminded of the cubomania stuff.

I’ve updated the Cubomania Gif! page so that you can, choose the number of slices, speed of the gif and the ability to add a frame of the original image. You can also make static jpg versions on the same page.

 

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I am attracted to the random nature of cubomania, interestingly if you search for images online many look as if they have been rearranged with some taste as opposed to randomly.

Featured image on this post was from a tweet by Theo created with the webpage.

One more, this time including the original

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This is #DS106

One of the best things about DS106 is the riffing and playing with other participants. I dipped my toe in the daily create stream yesterday and pulled out a great example:

As I saw this late there were already a great bunch of responses, I giffed:

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I had intended to have the notes ping right off the sheet, but this looked ok and it was late (so late I lost a few frames that would have made the jump a little more dynamic).

Todd said:

and Ron:

Today Viv iced the cake:

There are deeper thinks going on on DS106 but this is #4life