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text/picture changing should be called "transitions"...fade transition
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Netherlands6188 Posts
A good program for all this (depending on how advanced you want to get) would be Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere.
You can download a free trial from their website here. Premiere is probably what you are going for with transitions and small animations, but it is primarily for video editing. So you would most likely do all your content work in another program and then put it together in Premiere, where you can clip and edit and add audio quite easily. After Effects is more complex but offers a lot more - you can animate in it, and there are tonnes of tutorials online such as this. Iirc it comes with some tutorials in the help section too, so if you get stuck you can always refer back to there. I think Blender and full on 3D programs are a little complex for now.
If you use a Mac, there are some great little programs you can use on there too - iLife for one. There is an application called iMovie, which is also mostly for video editing, but great for making slideshows and has tonnes of useful information.
Hope this helps 
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Thanks for the responses so far. The adobe line of programs was a little confusing for me at first, since with After Effects, premier, premier elements (I assume elements is like a strip down version?) all seem to do the same thing in my eyes.
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After Effects is intended for digital compositing and motion graphics, where you manage many layers of images on top of each other. Competing packages are Apple's "Motion" and (more for compositing) packages like Nuke and Fusion.
Premiere and Premiere Elements are video editing packages, which usually offer a small selection of compositing and motion graphics tools, but really don't have anywhere near the full capability of a tool like After Effects. Competing packages in this space are Apple's Final Cut Pro and Avid's Media Composer.
Usually, the workflow looks something like this: Title video clips and clips involving motion graphics are created in a motion graphics or compositing package, then exported to be brought into an editing package. Compositing and motion graphics packages are really about frame-by-frame animation and layering, while editing packages are more about managing a library of audio and video clips and assembling them into a complete, finished product.
Hope that helps a little bit!
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You explained that much more clearly than I did Lysenko ^^ Thanks.
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Sorry DragonLord, I missed your response, but hey, at least now the matter is doubly clear!
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On May 23 2013 23:38 Lysenko wrote:Sorry DragonLord, I missed your response, but hey, at least now the matter is doubly clear!
Haha nono I wasn't trying to undermine you or anything, I was being genuine. Mine wasn't very clear about what each program did, so thanks for making it a bit clearer I remember your awesome animation blog. Infact I PMd you about it on my old account (and no I am not a PBU) about animation and the future of it etc.
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On May 23 2013 16:50 FFGenerations wrote:
text/picture changing should be called "transitions"...fade transition
Googling for various youtube guides mostly show a "dimming" effect.
What should I search for if I want something similar to what I posted?
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someone told me to look for "particle effects". Seem like this is something that should be done in After Effects though. (this is getting a little costly lol). Going to start looking for a good guide.
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On May 24 2013 07:09 Hikari wrote:
someone told me to look for "particle effects". Seem like this is something that should be done in After Effects though. (this is getting a little costly lol). Going to start looking for a good guide.
After Effects can certainly be used for particle effects, but that video you posted uses a 3D package called Blender, which is actually completely free. If that's the look you want, why not try doing it with Blender and use that video as a tutorial?
You can get Blender (for free) at www.blender.org.
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The video supposedly is a demo of a script/plugin the maker wrote.
There are two problems:
1) i checked out some other blender tutorials, it seem extremely complicated and is beyond what I am comfortable with (mspainter background lol)
2) The plugin itself has a 404 error. I might have given it a shot if the tools are there and steps are easy enough to follow.
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Getting good results from particle effects plug-ins probably won't be much easier in any package you try. It's a fairly specialized skill. Might be worth having a look at the relevant After Effects particle plug-in though, since it might be simpler to get started.
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