Quick question ..I am working on my own boot animations and want to be able to share previews of them...how to a make a preview so people can see what they look like??? I want more than just a screen shot...i'd like people to see them in action!
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Secondary camera to record it. Then take that video and make it a .gif
Any apps will have to have android fully booted to work, so there is no way to my knowledge to do it with 1 device.
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just a quick questions...
why doesn't android support custom cool transitions like the iphone? for example in the iphone/ipad/i<whatever> when you rotate the screen from portrait to landscape it has a very cool shift transition. on our android devices it just "is lame".
i know theres a thread about doing this but is it simple to apply?
thanks!
[edit: update] i found this thread which lead me to the main thread. i used metamorph to install the transitions.zip file and all worked great. its real nice to have some animations. however not everthing is animated .. the main "screen from portrait to landscape" isnt. phone book isnt.
...What are you talking about?
What do transitions have to do with anything? If you're so desperate to be like everyone else, download Spare Parts and enable "Fancy Rotation Animation".
Apple probably patented it.
iead1 said:
...What are you talking about?
What do transitions have to do with anything? If you're so desperate to be like everyone else, download Spare Parts and enable "Fancy Rotation Animation".
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that doesnt work. it says (1.5 ONLY) when checked.
To be fair.. the animations in ios are very nice and add to the "slick" feeling that you get when you use it (my Daughter's got an Ipod touch).. It creates a very polished end user experience when you get things like that... some of the animations in LPP are quite cool.. but it doesn't really go far enough.
It's not the animations on their own.. it's the overall user experience which it creates.
do you mean like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d39RmIiO-w&feature=player_embedded
if yes....have a look at this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845346&highlight=transition
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do you mean like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d39RmIiO-w&feature=player_embedded
if yes....have a look at this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845346&highlight=transition
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i already did all that. still though not all functions are animated. while the ones that are look real good some are still missing. and theres no rotate screen animation.
Dose any one know what is the related xml file when you close any application or window at full screen.
Ex: when you are at Settings/sound & display and you press back key to go to settings page again
I am sorry if this is a noobish question or there is an easy answer, but I was looking at customizing my phone a bit and I saw the part about making your own splash screens (which is awesome), but I was wondering how to make custom boot animations - what tools I would need, type of files, etc. I thought there would have been a thread somewhere in the Themes & Apps section but I could not find it, and doing Google search leads me to just people posting their own custom animations.
Is there a thread someone can direct me to that has this sort of information? Any help would be appreciated - thanks!
Bump - does anybody know? Also, the boot noise for the BAMF Sense 3.0 RC3 does not work, another reason why I want a new one, ha.
Have you opened one of the bootanimation.zips? What file types are in there?
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A PNG image and a series of JPG images that make the animation, but I was wondering if there was a program that took an animation to make it into a series of JPGs, or if there were certain requirements/specifics in terms of how to make a boot animation.
+1 on this whole post, I attemted last night to make my first animation, and if it is just the tedious task of re-saving the same picture over and over again with just minor changes on each one to create the animation, than ok, so be it.
It just seems that with some of the very cool animations there are, for example the boot animation to the new BAMF 3.0 has moving clouds in the background, that seems like it would be pretty hard to do manually moving the clouds a little bit for each frame.
It would seem pretty obvious to anyone that extracted the bootanimation.zip how the animation works, just more speaking on the creation of each of those frames.
Would be nice if someone with experience with this chimed on and offered some help.
Thank's in advance.
Does seem pretty tedious manually moving and saving them as you said but I'm guessing that's what they do.
Probably wouldn't take that long if you had everything on layers in photoshop and you could just move layers themselves.
Alternatively, if you already have a video, I'm sure there's a way to convert that to a series of png's as well.
Ok I'm on the phone so giving a tutorial is out of the question. All you really need is patience and a goal.
First download Gimp for editing. Forget PhotoShop all together unless your rich.
Download the following scripts or plugins.
Background overlay
Save all layers
GAP (video editor for Gimp)
Google the hell out of what you want. Chances are someone allready has done what you want.
Read, read, read (time to not be lazy, what ever your doing you can find some direction at least with some good internet research)
Google "editing Android boot animations".
Create images (JPG or PNG) in the same aspect ratio of 480x800.
JPG images will be significantly smaller in file size
PNG images will have a much better quality
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Use GAP to convert an existing video to images frame for frame.
Very useful if you find a good video.
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I actually do have Photoshop, do you know how I can use that instead of Gimp/GAP? Also, I am sort of confused at how you take an existing video and turn it into something you can use as a boot animation... I found this link (http://www.machackpc.com/how-to-changecreate-your-boot-animation-for-droid/) but I am sort of confused by it and wish I could find someplace with simpler instructions.
I just use others. I used the Call of Android animation and the mw2 style on my incredible, and I just edited the files to use the same ones on my thunderbolt.
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Ok, did a little research last night and today and tried a bunch of different programs for converting animations to a series of .png files and finally settled on one. I tried some free one's some trials and this is probably the best one I found so far.
Xilisoft Ultimate video converter. I was able to load an .avi, (or many other supported formats.) Program made it very easy using the "clip" feature to select out a section of the video I wanted, then converted that "clip" to a series of .png files. I was able to easily select the length of times between the extracted images "less time will obviously give you a smoother animation but require more pictures", also I could manually input the size of the outputted files (to match our phone's resolution).
I have only played with it a little bit but so far seems to be pretty good.
Also I have one other program I have been playing with to help with this. Jasc animation studio, which works with paint shop pro, has a pretty cool feature, which lets you copy into the clipboard all of your extracted image .png's, then "paste" them into animation studio as a new animation, you can then watch them from there, or load any indivual frame into paint shop pro. You can also save the clips as an animated gif. Very easy to make changes to individual frames and see the result's without having to flash to your phone.
Hope this helps.
Wow! Awesome, thanks, this is perfect and in great detail - what about sound? If the video has sound, will I try hope it gets synced with the series of .png images? And what else would I need for the bootanimation.zip folder? Will I need a .txt like when I change the splash screens?
So I use windows as an OS for my DJ rig. I have quite a few neat screensavers on it.
I'm not sure how they would run on the arm processor but dosbox exists so i know it has to be possible to emulate it.
It's not even anything fancy, it's just the "retro scifi" screensaver. There are a few others I like too.
If something like this exists and I just don't know please by all means let me know. If not, I like things, this should be a thing.
Also I just noticed there is a general android section, can a mod/admin move this there?
Do you have any gif files or videos of the screensavers that you have in mind? If so there will be a way to make the bootanimations.
Did you even read what I wrote? Not boot animations, LIVE WALLPAPERS! It's right in the title.
If you want to see them in action there is the google or maybe even a google image search will yield you some images. I suppose they'd be fairly neat as boot animations too and then boot into the live wallpaper.
ignore my quick typing. If you have a gif file you can use this app to create it:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.direxar.animgiflivewallpaper2&feature=more_from_developer
I suppose there should be a way to record the screensaver output to something. Might not be as random, and it will be one huge gif file. I wonder what the limitation to number of images in them is now.
A movie might be easier, maybe swf/fla format. I'll check into that too.
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I suppose there should be a way to record the screensaver output to something. Might not be as random, and it will be one huge gif file. I wonder what the limitation to number of images in them is now.
A movie might be easier, maybe swf/fla format. I'll check into that too.
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If you be able to video tape the screensavers, you can use ffmpeg to create a gif file out of the video.
OKay just saw the cursom boot animation request thread but I thought I would offer a place that people that have made personal animations to just link for others....I only have one I might make more but just wanted to share it....it is Transformers 3 intro into Sentinals Eye but it ends Saying Transformer Prime....the "S" (from Transformers) shatters and "Prime" fades in....
It is a bit glitchy but I am not sure how to fix it...in my editor it looks fine.
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Screens
Start: http://bit.ly/w4S1te
http://bit.ly/yAc3zH
http://bit.ly/wVYHMA
http://bit.ly/ymccrq
http://bit.ly/wUPLO7
Ending: http://bit.ly/ADcvLN
Zip:
http://bit.ly/yVreoI
PS: First of all I am not an expert in any way, I just wanted my boot animation like this...the settings in desc could probably be optimized more and also the boot time I think take a bit longer due the length of the clip and the resources needed....feel free to edit as much as you would like
AND PLEASE POST ANY BOOT ANIMATIONS YOU WANT TO SHARE
Your links are broken. Except for the last one.
Thanks for that...fixed now
If anyone is looking for something custom feel free to hit me up, I am more then willing to help out. Let me know what you are looking and we can hash it out. I have been building boot animations for the primalicious rom.
-Lostsorrow
How do you setup a custom boot animation, been wondering this for while....
So, what exactly is this new video highlight feature we got with sense 5, and how does it work? I'm running stock all the way, and I see a highlight folder in my gallery. However, all the folders have the same option to run a slide show, but that's it... I'm sure that's not the "cool" video highlight feature that I've read about everywhere. Am I missing something here?
so I guess I'm not the only one who doesn't fully get this thing then? strange that there's no help topic about it..
I'm guessing that's what it is... In fact I'd like a way to hide / delete / prevent the video highlights for some events where they make no sense, like when I photograph the whiteboard at the end of a meeting....
Still looking for a way to do that
Ps: I would speculate it looks better on a real One, as then the video highlights can be based on Zoe videos, instead of being based on still photos (and perhaps regular videos)