Animating Photos

[Joe 90]

I've got a series of 24 images, much like frame by frame stuff of a touchdown run from a football game recently.

I wanted to patch them all together into a gif or video file - yesterday I tried to use After Effects for it but it didn't prove too great. It identified some missed frames (it was all shot on a stills camera) and I'm still a little new at the production side of AE

Is there a way of doing it with any other Adobe software or perhaps something far easier still?

[divine]

I've done it once before ages ago by layering all the images in Photoshop and then importing into ImageReady but I don't think ImageReady has been included beyond CS2.

edit - looks like CS3 onwards can do it all within Photoshop:

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-Animated-GIFs-Using-Photoshop-CS3

[Lynnie_pitch nee Leigh]

I do an animation unit in work and use software called MonkeyJam. Might be worth a look :)

[Joe 90]

cheers. Just got to get it to save correctly now. first attempt at a save as gif didn't prove to animate and saving as avi lacked all the colours - had lots of green pixels in the blacks

[Joe 90]

hurrah - got it down to a decent file size vs quality :)

http://www.shuwarriors.net/images/danny-small.gif

[Dee]

Thats really good, Id have a good one flying over Manhattan :D

[Joe 90]

Yeah I did it with Photoshop CS4 - really simple stuff :)

You just have to tweak the settings - thats the most time consuming part.