On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:20:59PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Nice! My only complaint is that sometimes the displayed text was displayed for > too little time and I did not have enough time to read it. > forgive me, i am a rude and literate american. first a question. i watched a few buster keaton silent movies and tried to determine how long text should be displayed. apparently, this method failed me; especially with an international audience. what is that called? the time you should leave text displayed in an animation like this and where can you find information about it? guidelines or something like this? each text block was a different length than all the others; so i would assume there is no set length of time. some guidelines as to how long though would help me (probably others as well). maybe someone on this list has at least the terminology and perhaps an actual url that could help .... next an explanation: i tried a trick with this new movie. the other movies were encoded with a frame rate of one frame per second; which works really well when you are showing still images like this. this movie i wanted to add that scroll of the web "team". scrolling like this is not good at a frame rate of one frame per second -- no sir! my idea was to encode what i had and then extract it again. in theory i would get frames with the frame rate included in the layer information. like when i made animated gifs, so long ago (before i knew right from wrong) i was then going to change the frame rate on the frames that were to include the scroll. the rest of the theory involved gap respecting what the frames said about the frame rate, but i did not get that far. when i extracted the animation; even though i had encoded it using one frame per second, the extraction was closer to 24 frames per second. 1000 frames became 5000 (hmm, somehow the math is not working out on my recounting of this). even after all of that, the scrolling text is not so good, in my opinion. i have much to learn about video/animation. it took many hours to add the 5 or 10 seconds that i did add; with a stack like that. this gap sure can eat your disc up. carol
