Morphing Software Question

In article ,
fmmck RemoveThis @aol.com (Fred McKenzie) wrote:

> In article , Al
> wrote:
>
> > I have a series of 50 photos of a building site. I took one photo a week
> > as the construction progressed. They are from the same spot and pointed
> > at the same spot.
> >
> > I would like to put all of them in sequence and morph them into a movie.
> > The only software I found for morphing just morphs one picture into
> > another.
>
> Al-
>
> Have you viewed the 50 photos as a slide show? With one second for each
> photo, it would last 50 seconds.
>
> I assume morphing means that you create several frames of video that shows
> a transition between two photos. You should be able to accomplish what
> you want with the softrware you found, it just takes 49 cycles of
> morphing! Viewed as a movie, the morphed version might still only last a
> minute or so.
>
> Fred

Yes, I have. But I want to create a movie from them. I took two of the
shots and used iMovie to make a transistion. It worked just
fine.....BUT. All of the photos do not coincide exactly. When I run the
transitions they are not smooth with the scene jumping. It is my thought
that by morphing one into the other, it would smooth out the
transistions.

Even for the two that I used for the initial experiment, I had to take
each scene, match them using Photoshop and crop, rotate and adust the
perspective. It took a long time to do that. I may just have to do it
that way.

Al
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On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:56:17 -0500, Al wrote
(in message ):

> In article ,
> fmmck RemoveThis @aol.com (Fred McKenzie) wrote:
>
>> In article , Al
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a series of 50 photos of a building site. I took one photo a week
>>> as the construction progressed. They are from the same spot and pointed
>>> at the same spot.
>>>
>>> I would like to put all of them in sequence and morph them into a movie.
>>> The only software I found for morphing just morphs one picture into
>>> another.
>>
>> Al-
>>
>> Have you viewed the 50 photos as a slide show? With one second for each
>> photo, it would last 50 seconds.
>>
>> I assume morphing means that you create several frames of video that shows
>> a transition between two photos. You should be able to accomplish what
>> you want with the softrware you found, it just takes 49 cycles of
>> morphing! Viewed as a movie, the morphed version might still only last a
>> minute or so.
>>
>> Fred
>
> Yes, I have. But I want to create a movie from them. I took two of the
> shots and used iMovie to make a transistion. It worked just
> fine.....BUT. All of the photos do not coincide exactly. When I run the
> transitions they are not smooth with the scene jumping. It is my thought
> that by morphing one into the other, it would smooth out the
> transistions.
>
> Even for the two that I used for the initial experiment, I had to take
> each scene, match them using Photoshop and crop, rotate and adust the
> perspective. It took a long time to do that. I may just have to do it
> that way.
>
> Al

I was going to suggest the same thing, that you just did... use photoshop or
similar program, and move the images around as needed, so they don't jump
around when you finally animate them. Even with morphing software, you'd have
to manually fiddle with image pairs, marking "landmarks" in each picture, so
the software knows which image portions to blend, creating "tween" images for
the metamorphosis.
There's no way around it, you will have to do some hand work with individual
images to get you animation. Sounds like a neat project, though, and I wish
I'd had the discipline to take a series of pictures like you did, when they
built the new school here.
tom k.


--
I will find a way or make one.
(Most likely from Hannibal, crossing the Alps with his elephants
during the Second Punic War about 22 centuries ago.)
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On 2006-04-15 17:11:27 -0400, tom koehler
said:

> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:56:17 -0500, Al wrote
> (in message ):
>
>> In article ,
>> fmmck.RemoveThis@aol.com (Fred McKenzie) wrote:
>>
>>> In article , Al
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a series of 50 photos of a building site. I took one photo a
>>>> week as the construction progressed. They are from the same spot and
>>>> pointed at the same spot.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to put all of them in sequence and morph them into a
>>>> movie. The only software I found for morphing just morphs one picture
>>>> into another.
>>>
>>> Al-
>>>
>>> Have you viewed the 50 photos as a slide show? With one second for each
>>> photo, it would last 50 seconds.
>>>
>>> I assume morphing means that you create several frames of video that shows
>>> a transition between two photos. You should be able to accomplish what
>>> you want with the softrware you found, it just takes 49 cycles of
>>> morphing! Viewed as a movie, the morphed version might still only last a
>>> minute or so.
>>>
>>> Fred
>>
>> Yes, I have. But I want to create a movie from them. I took two of the
>> shots and used iMovie to make a transistion. It worked just
>> fine.....BUT. All of the photos do not coincide exactly. When I run the
>> transitions they are not smooth with the scene jumping. It is my
>> thought that by morphing one into the other, it would smooth out the
>> transistions.
>>
>> Even for the two that I used for the initial experiment, I had to take
>> each scene, match them using Photoshop and crop, rotate and adust the
>> perspective. It took a long time to do that. I may just have to do it
>> that way.
>>
>> Al
>
> I was going to suggest the same thing, that you just did... use
> photoshop or similar program, and move the images around as needed, so
> they don't jump around when you finally animate them. Even with
> morphing software, you'd have to manually fiddle with image pairs,
> marking "landmarks" in each picture, so the software knows which image
> portions to blend, creating "tween" images for the metamorphosis.
> There's no way around it, you will have to do some hand work with
> individual images to get you animation. Sounds like a neat project,
> though, and I wish I'd had the discipline to take a series of pictures
> like you did, when they built the new school here. tom k.

Give Morph Age a look - it is an OS X program that I have worked with a
bit. I think it allows for multiple images.

Or - if you want to go old school - get a copy of the long-defunct
Elastic Reality. Now THAT was a sweet, pro-level morphing program. It
never made it to OS X, as far as I know, but it still works great in
classic mode
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