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Bond Cinemagraphs (Create and Share Yours!)
I love Cinemagraphs. (Yeah, in case you didn't know, this image below is called a "Cinemagraph.")
I've always been a fan of the style, but never seen it in the Bond community before.
I grabbed this one from http://technoir.nl/ Pretty neat stuff, easy to make, very creative.
ANOTHER IDEA CAME TO MIND: I've never bought a digital picture frame, just wasn't interested, but if it had something like this, a Cinemagraph for your wall, that would be awesome. I bet it will exists in the near future, if it doesn't already. (I know you could make it, I meant mass produced)
Anywho, I was thinking of making a series of these, and then it dawned on me that I'd love to see what the Bond community could come up with, take a look on the link above to get a feel for the style if your unfamiliar with cinemagraphs, and learn the difference between just a normal gif and a Cinemagraph. You'll notice they'll keep a segment of the video still that would normally be in motion to give it that unique effect of a live photograph. I'd love to see what we all can come up with!
I've always been a fan of the style, but never seen it in the Bond community before.
I grabbed this one from http://technoir.nl/ Pretty neat stuff, easy to make, very creative.
ANOTHER IDEA CAME TO MIND: I've never bought a digital picture frame, just wasn't interested, but if it had something like this, a Cinemagraph for your wall, that would be awesome. I bet it will exists in the near future, if it doesn't already. (I know you could make it, I meant mass produced)
Anywho, I was thinking of making a series of these, and then it dawned on me that I'd love to see what the Bond community could come up with, take a look on the link above to get a feel for the style if your unfamiliar with cinemagraphs, and learn the difference between just a normal gif and a Cinemagraph. You'll notice they'll keep a segment of the video still that would normally be in motion to give it that unique effect of a live photograph. I'd love to see what we all can come up with!
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How do you create one? How do you search that site?
@007InVT
Well there are a number of ways to make one, I'll explain how to make this one above.
Take a scene from a movie, gather enough frames to make a normal looping gif, but make sure something in the background is moving like this example above (otherwise it would be a boring loop). Now once you have the loop, (usually 4-8 seconds) grab one frame from the loop and make a jpeg/bmp so you can take out the background of everything except the girl. (save it as a png) Then you superimpose the girl over the looping version, (you may have to enlarge it a slight bit to cover the animated girl behind it) then BAM, you're done. Save it as a gif and share it with us!
I use photoshop, you can do all three steps within the same program, but if you don't have photoshop, I'll give you a link to a web-based program like photoshop that's FREE to use. But I don't know if you can do the gif part in that program, so you'd have to use a video editor and most of those programs have a export as gif option, so you can do it that way. http://pixlr.com/editor/
If you need a better breakdown of steps I can do so, I just went through that pretty fast to give you the general idea.
Looking forward to seeing your work!
This one is a bit small and boring, but you get the idea. I'll spend more time on this soon, I'd love to see what others can come up with!
PS: THE STEPS: I ended up loading the video in Vegas Video to make a nice loop, then editing an exported frame in Photoshop to take out the background, then overlaying it back onto the video in Vegas (also enlarging Dalton a bit), and then saving it to MP4, then uploading it to Photoshop and cropping it down and tweaking the colors, frames, etc by clicking the "Save for Web & Devices" under File. Hope this helps!
PPS: Try and keep the file size under 1MB, manual compression can be tricky.
Again, this isn't the best example, but my first "Cinemagraph"
Obviously brighter scenes would have been more visually pleasing. :P
First one is from the end of the film. Here you could have Bond stationary with the flags and traffic moving in the background.
and another is when Bond is swimming in the pool in Shanghai, particularly the shot of him sitting at the edge of the pool. Again, Bond stationary and the water rippling.
Yes I find it so cool I tagged it with my nickname :) [It'll be more subtle next time if I ever do a new one]
Funny thing is that it's probably a bit the opposite of what the VFX guy did at that time by putting the layer by hand there :)
I tried to make a cinemagraph of Bond looking out over London last week, but the camera never stays still long enough to get any real static shots with things still visibly moving in them.
Yeah, I watched the clips earlier today and you're right, the camera slowly pans downward the whole sequence. But the pool one looks quite feasible.
Also, @Suivez_ce_parachute, that looks great, nicely done!
I could not use the traffic it got too distorted while compensating for the camera motion. For the same reason, the flag motion is a very short loop from the scene.
Now why did I have to discover that cool software on Sunday night ?!?!
You're on a roll!
Loving this one! You gonna try the other flags too? Or is that not posssible?
- it took me 1 minute really to add the other flags (once the project is setup that's just three clicks)
- but it'd be an headache for me to do better than the result below (all the motion tracking result is built-in, I can't tune it + I have to use the cheap mirror motion tricks to extend the short loops and there's no real zoom viewer to handpick the frames)
I'll look at how to have a better def (with scenes I like more :) ). I hopefully "discovered" while doing this 1-minute change the usual Ctrl+Mouse and Shift+Mouse selection tricks work in Cliplets too so I can refine the masks now for my next trials (there's zero doc with Cliplets, it's just a free tool to create "cinemagraph" from one's video, really)
To help you make the step trying to make yours, here's the simplicity of the interface. It's no Boujou ! Note that at this stage, the def is higher (maybe it's when I add my tag with GIMP that it destroys it, I'll look at this one evening in the next few days :) )
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/cliplets/
It was actually longer to get the scene in mv4 for Skyfall :) (for the laser beam, I used a Youtube video grab...)
I´ve posted them in archivo007.com naming the source, of course ;)
I tagged them with "Suivez" if you look well :)
Usted debe copiar los gifs, porque no creo que hostingpics will keep them long !
More to come, I'll try to make one in better def if my tools allow me so...
Anyway, I've set my sights on this scene from the end of Casino Royale.
I think Bond clutching Vesper in his arms with the water gurgling up in the skylights would make a sad, but excellent cinemagraph.
So in a rush, in order to see what I could do with the resolution, I took the first scene that looked like it could be easily used. Alas, with cliplets, it seems one cannot do much more than :
even though it can export a wmv as smooth and light as :
http://www.filedropper.com/daft2
However because of compression artifacts, a gif made from this wmv by automatic tools would be very huge (it would code the wmv artifacts in the background etc).
So it's frustating, there's a casual free software that does motion matching to help create these within seconds, but the ouput within gif is downscaled a lot. The other way is to use more professional tools and spends much more time, but then one feel like doing some pro work at home.
Given how cool cinemagraph are to many people, let's hope in the future companies like Instagram will deal with it (also, note that Microsoft Cliplets should have an update "in the next months").
;) =D>
http://www.archivo007.com/foros/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2918&start=315
Alas as said above, I'm a bit frustated by the lack of control of the output's resolution (see the Mr Wint and Kidd example above, or the one below done in 5 minutes). I may have to find some BluRay source, ahem, instead of using DVDs to do one final test... Also, the wmv output is far nicer, but you loose the cool effect of inserting them in a forum and see them "magically moving" between two texts :)
In the mean time, the same tool does camera motion which is a huge step from only using Photoshop (I'd do Skyfall scene in 2 minutes now, while it would take possibly hours with Photoshop only), and anyway I don't want to use pro tools at home. So I may stick to little motions, rather than the Honey Rider effect above that concerns the background.
I also know "my Bond" well to know where to look for such scenes :)
:-)) :-)) :-))
Good old Peter Franks!!