Re: import image sequence
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Re: import image sequence
I would say no, but egg should know for sure, or acorn maybe
the only way I know to get images into the frames, other than individually, is to import an existing animation, no use to you unfortunately
mind you, I have not done animation in xara for a long time...
Re: import image sequence
Place each set of 70 images into a separate folder.
In Xara go to the Fills gallery > Disc fills > Image Folder and accept the index question (this creates a sub-folder of Thumbnails).
All the images are now in your Fills gallery for adding to your animation.
This at least saves you importing them one as a time.
If they are all the right size for the frame then a simple drag & drop & snap and you step to the next frame.
Right-click the Fills gallery > Image Folder name to remove it.
Acorn
Re: import image sequence
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This at least saves you importing them one as a time
you can 'import' them all [by selecting all in file explorer and draging onto program layer] in one go directly to a layer without using the fill gallery, although to do it the way you suggest is rather tidy... and saves having to have a seperate document open with the files in, to drag from bitmap gallery to frames
Re: import image sequence
Thank you Acorn and handrawn! Acorn's suggestion worked. Now my only issue seems to be that I need to export an image sequence with transparency. Is there a way to export the animation as a sequence of pngs? I see only gif, avi and swf.
Re: import image sequence
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Aeron
Thank you Acorn and handrawn! Acorn's suggestion worked. Now my only issue seems to be that I need to export an image sequence with transparency. Is there a way to export the animation as a sequence of pngs? I see only gif, avi and swf.
Aeron, PNG cannot hold a sequence of images, the others do.
Can you explain the end purpose as there are other approaches that may be possible.
There is an PNG extension, animated PNG, image/apng MIME type, that is gaining browser support: https://caniuse.com/?search=apng.
You could try loading your PNGs into https://ezgif.com/apng-maker and checking if that works for you.
Others here: http://littlesvr.ca/apng/.
Acorn
Re: import image sequence
I think having made the animation aeron wants to export each frame in a numbered sequence, each frame as a seperate alpha PNG, quite normal in animation but xara is not really that kind of animation program
so again, you can't do that directly from the frames - but presumably you have the edited images you placed in each frame so you could export these in one go from a non-animation document by publishing [I think - acorn will know] - but you'd have to name each one :(
Re: import image sequence
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Originally Posted by
handrawn
I think having made the animation aeron wants to export each frame in a numbered sequence, each frame as a seperate alpha PNG, quite normal in animation but xara is not really that kind of animation program
so again, you can't do that directly from the frames - but presumably you have the edited images you placed in each frame so you could export these in one go from a non-animation document by publishing [I think - acorn will know] - but you'd have to name each one :(
handrawn is right, the desired output is a sequence of separate png images with transparency which will be used to create an animation in some software which is being coded.
Re: import image sequence
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Aeron
handrawn is right, the desired output is a sequence of separate png images with transparency which will be used to create an animation in some software which is being coded.
For this to work, you need a fairly recent version.
- Drop all images onto a web page.
- Check the order is right in the Page and Layer gallery.
- Select all:
- Web Properties > Image > Web image type: set to PNG.
- Web Properties > Image > Image Filename: set to image.
- Apply.
- Export Website to a local folder - lets call it Animation on drive G:\.
- Open G:\Animation\index_htm_files\ folder.
- Copy out all PNG images with filenames image.png, image-1.png, image-2.png, ...
This won't be possible if you are still on version 7 (your TG Profile).
Acorn