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Making a movie in a sig

April 18th, 2006 10:54 AM

hey

ive tried all kind of sigs but i wondered, how do i make those sigs with a movie in it..
Ive read a lot of tutorials but it fails..
i want as a movie those small ones of spacebattles but must i reconfig them to mov.files?

2799260

Re: Making a movie in a sig

April 18th, 2006 10:55 AM

Export them into GIF files?

2799382

Re: Making a movie in a sig

April 18th, 2006 11:46 AM

Well, first of all, you need to understand that movies/.GIF files exist out of different frames, differing a slight bit per frame. All together this makes a 'moving' something.

So, you'll need to have different frames to make a 'movie' in a sig.

.MOV files are pretty handy getting those frames from. This is because .MOV files open in QuickTime (correct?), which allows you to go frame by frame (well, not totally, but kinda).

For example, if you open a Trailer (Clickeh) , wait till it's loaded, and select a nice scene. Then, pause it, and then you can go 'frame by frame' by tapping the arrowkeys. I don't know if there is an other way to do it, but then PrintScreen the frames after eachother, and make this into a signature.


Hope it helped you a tad bit, butI can't help you any further. Also, I don't know if this is the best way, but this is the only way I know. You could ask Jack(thehammer), as he seems pretty good with movies in signatures.

2799392

Re: Making a movie in a sig

April 18th, 2006 11:51 AM

thanks for responding! And indeed mov.files are being played by quicktime but i always wanted a entire movie of 1 minute on my sig or is that not possible..

2799439

Re: Making a movie in a sig

April 18th, 2006 12:17 PM

thats gonna be faaaaaar too big.. a few seconds is max. any questions, pm me

2802369

Re: Making a movie in a sig

April 19th, 2006 02:51 PM

Very carefully! lol thanks K2D!

2806067

Re: Making a movie in a sig

April 20th, 2006 09:48 PM

If you have flash, you can upload it right through there.

But it came out looking good, thanks for the help Griffen.

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Re: Making a movie in a sig

nick.g33k

April 20th, 2006 10:33 PM

If you have Adobe ImageReady you can open a video file and have it exported as a .gif animation. Its as easy as 1-2-3. But I am using Photoshop 7 so I don't know if they changed anything at all for the newest version.

2806445

Re: Making a movie in a sig

April 21st, 2006 02:12 AM

but you cant convert whole movies, youll be optimizing the hell out of it and probably crash imageready.

2806951

Re: Making a movie in a sig

April 21st, 2006 07:23 AM

bwoah never mind..

the sigs i have are good...