Sylvia Toyama

Andy has discovered fan flash videos. After spending two days watching every Naruto fan flash he could find, now he wants to make one -- or several. I told him we'd tackle that this weekend when I could devote my full attention to it. How do we make a fan flash video, or any other kind of video? Does it require special software? Anyone have a favorite site for it -- preferably one that will walk me thru it. I'm pretty brave as far as trying new stuff on the computer is concerned, and I'm willing to try this but don't want it to be too frustrating for us.

Thanks!

Sylvia

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Joyce Fetteroll

On Dec 28, 2006, at 7:42 PM, Sylvia Toyama wrote:
>
> How do we make a fan flash video, or any other kind of video? Does
> it require special software? Anyone have a favorite site for it --
> preferably one that will walk me thru it.

I know you can make GIF animations fairly simply and there are free
GIF animators (at least for PCs). It's just a series of still
pictures (as any movie is) created with an art program. I don't know
if you can add sound to the GIFs, though.

If they're using Flash, then the only route I know of is Macromedia
Flash. Normally it's pretty expensive, but they offer educator's
discounts (including homeschoolers) which brings it down around $90.
(They might have a time limited demo to download at the Macromedia
website.)

Once you learn the basics of Flash, it's pretty straightforward. The
problem I've always had is the process isn't totally intuitive and I
have to refigure it out each time I tackle it.

If someone doesn't offer a good website, there's a very good book
called:

Flash Cartoon Animation by Kevin Peaty and Glenn Kirkpatrick

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590592077/ref=pd_cp_b_title/
104-2891821-0949534

Joyce

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