Study 1 & 2

The superdoodle and skating,sliding,skidding projects were great exercises to the introduction to the animation world.  Speaking for myself, it allowed me to experiment with different processes and alternatives to produce the same general project with some differences.

1. I have dealt with importing pictures into final cut pro, though it is super effective, I don't know about everyone else but loading clunky programs to do fairly small and simple projects is a lot of waiting time. 
2. The route I took began with a series of pictures in order in a folder. 
3. In the finder I selected it all, right click and opened it in preview. 
4. I open up a program called iShowU, which records and captures your screen and exports it to a .mov. (There are varieties all over the Internet, which are free).
5. Hit the record button and reopen the preview window. 
6. View the images as full screen and hold the right arrow button on your keyboard and watch your files "play". 
7. As soon as it hits the end, just to be safe do it a couple times and allow a pause in between the first and last pictures, it will help you during editing. 
8. As soon as your done stop recording and open up the movie that you've made. 
9. Open it on Quicktime and you can begin trimming.
10. As soon as your done go to file, save as, and it will automatically save it as a .mov.

There are definite pro’s and con’s to this process.


Pro’s

• No clunky large programs, so it doesn’t slow down your computer
• The save as/exporting process automatically saves it as a small .mov file,  so uploading onto the web or an email is simple.
• You work with programs already installed into your computer (excluding iShowU)

Con’s

• Does not allow for a lot of customization
• Low quality, not allowing for larger screen display
• Slower transitions in between files