Repetition, Repetition, Repetition

As we move into Week 2 and get more information, it appears that a major theme in The Prisoner is repetition (a long with reflection and recursion I hope).

Before I start thinking about the audio assignments, I knocked up a few gifs from The Chimes of Big Ben:

I repeat a well trod playflow.

1. Open video in MPEGStreamclip
2. Select in and out points
3. Trim (command T on a mac)
4. Export to Other Formats…
5. Choose Image Sequence
6. I usually click options and choose Jpeg and 12 frames /second
7. Export
8. Right Click on First File in export list
9. Open in Fireworks
10. Select all the other images in series & Drag to FW window
11. Cmd-A Select All
12. Open FW Frames window, Choose Distribute To Frames from the Window
13. This creates a series of frames.
14. Further editing and setting the Export Options in the Optimise Window
15. Export to Gif

I made a Say It Like Peanut Butter – YouTube video showing the process a while back. Fireworks, as I’ve blogged about before (more repetition), is great for gifs as it separates layers and frames. That make it much easier for me to understand.