Animated Speech Bubbles? at DVinfo.net

Lars Siden · April 2nd, 2003, 10:35 AM

Hi All,

Running around as a lucky fool filming with my new XM-2 ;-=) ...

Began a new project in Premiere 6.5 in which I will mix video with stills and titles ( a film with our 7 months old daughter as main actor ) - to give the stills more life I'd like to add some speech bubbles with some animation... Maybe they should pulsate like a heart... the "...." could come in one by one etc etc

Question: Are there any good tools for creating this kind of bubbles? I'd be happy to follow some kind of wizards/templates...

Some of our web-guys at work use Adobe Live Motion... could that be something?

Worst case I could manage with some pre-animated GIF:s

Any tips?

Best regards,

A Happy Lazze

George Brackett III · April 2nd, 2003, 12:45 PM

You could just make one up using a transparency in photoshop and use track motion to move (pulse) it slightly....

Lars Siden · April 2nd, 2003, 01:02 PM

Hi,

Made a 8 frame anim using Photoshop 7 + Imageready.

Worked out rather well, you can download the resulting .mov file here:

http://lazze.dns2go.com/video/

Question:

When I did this in Photoshop I used "transperent" as background, but when I exported it as a .mov, the background turned white - no good for me since the speechbubble is white... so I made the background a horrible green color that I "easy" could "mask" out in Premiere, suggestions? How do I do this better? Could I somehow preserve the transperancy from Photoshop?

And is it only me who thinks Premiere 6.5 sometimes are a bit tricky about showing the "keyed" material? Sometimes I have to turn "transperany" on / off several times to see it in the monitor window - always works as it should when exporting...

// Lazze

Keith Loh · April 2nd, 2003, 01:36 PM

The speech bubbles are easily done in Flash.

April 2nd, 2003, 10:35 AM	#1
Lars Siden Major Player Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Sweden, Stockholm Posts: 469	Animated Speech Bubbles? Hi All, Running around as a lucky fool filming with my new XM-2 ;-=) ... Began a new project in Premiere 6.5 in which I will mix video with stills and titles ( a film with our 7 months old daughter as main actor ) - to give the stills more life I'd like to add some speech bubbles with some animation... Maybe they should pulsate like a heart... the "...." could come in one by one etc etc Question: Are there any good tools for creating this kind of bubbles? I'd be happy to follow some kind of wizards/templates... Some of our web-guys at work use Adobe Live Motion... could that be something? Worst case I could manage with some pre-animated GIF:s Any tips? Best regards, A Happy Lazze __________________ Sony HDR-CX130,Canon 5DMKII,i7 930@4.0, 12gb memory, 3x SSD + 2x1Tb(stripe), Geforce 480, Dual 24", Win 7 x64

April 2nd, 2003, 12:45 PM	#2
George Brackett III Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Waterville, NY USA Posts: 83	You could just make one up using a transparency in photoshop and use track motion to move (pulse) it slightly.... __________________ If the quality of mercy is not strained, then how do they get the lumps out?

April 2nd, 2003, 01:02 PM	#3
Lars Siden Major Player Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Sweden, Stockholm Posts: 469	Hi, Made a 8 frame anim using Photoshop 7 + Imageready. Worked out rather well, you can download the resulting .mov file here: http://lazze.dns2go.com/video/ Question: When I did this in Photoshop I used "transperent" as background, but when I exported it as a .mov, the background turned white - no good for me since the speechbubble is white... so I made the background a horrible green color that I "easy" could "mask" out in Premiere, suggestions? How do I do this better? Could I somehow preserve the transperancy from Photoshop? And is it only me who thinks Premiere 6.5 sometimes are a bit tricky about showing the "keyed" material? Sometimes I have to turn "transperany" on / off several times to see it in the monitor window - always works as it should when exporting... // Lazze __________________ Sony HDR-CX130,Canon 5DMKII,i7 930@4.0, 12gb memory, 3x SSD + 2x1Tb(stripe), Geforce 480, Dual 24", Win 7 x64

April 2nd, 2003, 01:36 PM	#4
Keith Loh Air China Pilot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Vancouver, B.C. Posts: 2,389	The speech bubbles are easily done in Flash. __________________ -- Visit http://www.KeithLoh.com \| stuff about living in Vancouver \| My Flickr photo gallery