balls balls balls!

[leoniedelt]

Ok now I are frustrated. GRR.

Trying to use the Gimp GAP for creating an animated gif and just cannot figure out how to crop every frame (80 of them!!) to the same size, without doing each one by hand, which just breaks my brain.

I went to Video -> Frames Crop and tried it that way, and it did crop them all, but it cropped them off centre and i can't make it let me specify exactly where to crop each image. Like the X and Y? Wont let me enter anything, it just defaults to 0.

*whine*

edit: I managed it, by using the batch converter to crop them all at once, and the Frame to Image was the key to making an animated gif out of all those frames.
It was tiny on the screen, 65x65, yet it was almost 2mb. How ANYONE ever gets those things under 40k, i'll never know. Probably using some custom written piece of software, i suspect. Ah well. I had fun spending the WHOLE DAY learning how to do it!

Comments

[bibliophile1887.livejournal.com]

I can't help you with that, hon. But you might want to try asking at gimp_users. They're usually pretty helpful.

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

Woot!
I have an idea to batch modify them outside of the video stuff, and then load them back in. I'll try it, see what happens. If no joy, then i'll post there.

Didnt even know they existed. Bless you :D

[evil_plotbunny]

When I saw this on my f-list, I thought it was posted on gimp_users or I would have said something. *facepalm*

There's also gimp_tutorial but that's specifically for tutorials - you might take a look at it later on, though, depending on what you do in gimp. It's mostly techniques for headers and icons.

I haven't used GAP at all yet. I need to experiment a bit.

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

I are learning. The hard way. lol
I think the crop function isnt working right, but it looks like the scale one would've done what i wanted. As it was, i unloaded them from the video, loaded them into the bath converter, cropped them all, resized to 100x100, and reloaded them.
Now i'm trying to figure out how to save.

This is what i ♥ about Linux - the intellectual challenge! Maybe i dont like my arse wiped for me, i wanna learn how to do it myself, kwim? :)

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

HA, that's batCh converter! Funny - a bath converter. lol

[evil_plotbunny]

Precisely. And the ability to go in and tweak things if they're not the way you like.

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

I recompiled my kernel last year.
It blew up my pc and had to boot on the failsafe kernel.
I learned my lesson ;)
(i havent recompiled a kernel successfully since slackware was on floppies. lol)

[evil_plotbunny]

I used to have to do it to get my tv card to work. It was always a pain in the neck. Finally they got it working as a module. :)

[tinuvielberen.livejournal.com]

You know, I downloaded GIMP not too long ago, but as a Photoshop user, it's driving me insane. Stuff I can do without thinking in Photoshop takes ages for me to figure out.

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

I got it working, but it wasnt pretty. I edited my original post to reflect the joy. lol

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

I like the stimulation of having to figure out the gimp like i have to figure out everything in linux, and OHMY how it has changed since xv (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv)... still, i wish there was a quick util for making animated gifs out of bits of AVIs for linux like there is for windoze.

One day, maybe.

[evil_plotbunny]

YAY!