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I have photoshop, fireworks, flash and pinnacle studio.

What's the best way to create a short video (avi, mov etc) or an animated gif with 100 photos. Is it possible to import all of them into fireworks so they open on a separate frame rather than have to do them one at a time? I know how to use all of the above programs, just trying to figure the best way to go about it.

Although I use pinnacle studio I find it very memory hungry, is there any other better software to create videos from photos?

Edit - I've made a video using pinnacle, which seems to have come out ok but I still want to try some other software. Still stumped on FW though, there must be a way to import several photos at the same time?
 
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Anyone?
 
Look at the help files in Photoshop. I've done it with 3 or 4 images - not tried 100!

but the help files in Photoshop were very good. Can't remember how I did it now though!
 
I have used a program called ProShow Gold to do this in the past.
It was easy to use and I was pleased with the results.
It is quite popular with people creating photo montages for youtube and the like.

If you really want to use photoshop you could create an animated gif quite easily by putting each image on a seperate layer and using the animation toolbar. Google it for more details. I think 100 images will be pushing it TBH.


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A very rough and quick way of creating a basic AVI is to use the video option in Startrails software: http://startrails.de/ (it's free).

I've used it to do tilt-shift timelapse videos before. No good if you want to do GIFs though, or if you need to do any sort of proper video editing. Just open all the photo frames in the software and click the video button.

This was my first little test video. Nothing of interest in it, but you can see that the results are OK:
http://www.vimeo.com/15745005
 
I should have added a gif file is ok for very short clips. 100 seems quite large. I.'ve used Proshow and it is a first class bit of software - especially the Proshow Producer. Brilliantly easy to use and first class wizard that creates an amazing show from the temlates it holds.

You can download for free to try it at www.photodex.com
 
Thanks for the replies :)

I won't be doing it in photoshop, that's what fireworks is for although it's easier to edit the photos in the former first. You can import 1 photo to 1 frame at a time in fireworks but when you've got 100 I'm thinking there must be a quicker way although not found it yet.

You can have have as many frames as you want in a gif but obviously the more you have the bigger the file size! I'm only thinking of this to create an avatar or something that won't be very big or need alot of detail :thumbs:

Thanks for the links posted, I will check those out :)
 
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