Hey, there are some kinda nifty animated GIFs from an episode of The Twilight Zone over on a Tumblr.
Here’s the first two, and here’s a post where one of those is redone in an interesting way.
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Brilliantly Stupid or Stupidly Brilliant?
An introduction for #ds106zone, the Summer 2013 version of #ds106 (or rather, winter for me here in Australia).
Creating the video itself was fairly simple–I did it in Apple iMovie on my Mac (recorded and edited there, and added the titles too). Then I decided to use Mozilla Popcorn to add some links, and thought of a couple of other words to put on there as well…and it drove me absolutely bonkers.
I messed around with the timing of the links and the text that pops up at various times, and I would get it just right and then the next time I played it the timing would be off. So I’d fix it and it would seem fine, and then I’d play it and the timing would work fine…until the next time I played it. I honestly never knew when the damn things were going to pop up. And in the video below, some are WAY off. But I can’t seem to fix it, no matter what I do. [Update the next day: now they seem to be timed pretty well when I play it.] Trick: use the green “play” button at the bottom…I think that helps get the timing right (rather than the grey play button on the original Vimeo video.
I’ve used Popcorn before and didn’t have this much trouble…not sure what is going on.
At any rate, next time I might just use the stupid YouTube video editor to add links. Might work better. But I expect I’ll learn more in #ds106 of better ways to do what I’m trying to do.
Maybe viewing it from the original link will work better than the embedded version? The original looked okay when I viewed it the last time, but who knows. Here’s the original video on Vimeo, without the links and text added through Popcorn.
Later update: Realized one of my added pop-up statements was wrong; tried to change it over at Mozilla popcorn, and it seemed to work…but when I go to the link from outside the program, it’s not saved. IT JUST WON’T SAVE the new version, even though it says it has. I cannot believe how much time I’ve spent trying to get this to work. I give up.
I DID NOT PRONOUNCE COGDOG’S NAME INCORRECTLY, OKAY? Dammit.
Even later update: Okay, seems to have finally saved, so the below is actually the corrected version. I am so done with Popcorn right now.
Gah.