Relic From The Past Still Endures

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Can you believe it? The simple microsoft gif animator came out circa two decades ago and it may still be better than most free anigif software out there. IF you use it in conjunction with a feature-packed mini-graphics editor like PhoXo, etc. WHEN it concerns those small projects that you want to get in and out of quicker than with a bulky Apatosaurus like Photoshop or GIMP. Allows durations up to and maybe well beyond 10 seconds for a frame and still has "Leave", "Restore Background", "Restore Previous", and "Undefined" as options (in contrast to many current gif-makers that now only sport "Leave").

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I'd recently been looking at the usage of Blender in creating Animation sequences (specifically video editing)
It's a little complex to use to begin with but it's got some potentially useful applications.
I was looking at watermarking video's using either a static image or an animated set of images, even something that's been rendered in blender itself (although it's best to render the scene in images and apply them to the video separately to reduce loss in the event of a crash.)

On a slightly separate note, if you need bigger profile images, larger attachment sizes, Animation subforum etc just tell me and I'll see what can be done.

[cluelusshusbund]

Can you believe it? The simple microsoft gif animator came out circa two decades ago and it may still be better than most free anigif software out there.

I tend to stay at least 15 years behind common new technology so i still use ImageMagick for makin animated gifs  

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I tend to stay at least 15 years behind common new technology so i still use ImageMagick for makin animated gifs  

I was going to ask you about that elsewhere, what you used, since you've got Google's OS. Never even tried a Chromebook so don't know much about them apart from their being heavily online-dependent like Webtv was and some of today's mobile devices. (Though they've surely got a gigabytes more sized solid-state drive than the original Webtvs ever had for storing as well as being able to actually do stuff offline.)

Had almost forgotten about the online version of ImageMagick, that backbone of webbies for getting artistic affairs done (whether animated gifs and otherwise). GifWorks has long passed away but MyImager (or whatever its name was) is I guess still around. Lunapic seems to be a rather well-equipped online image editor. I need to "get out more" in terms of examining those, but the CD / downloaded / installed software is adequate for my needs.

If you were using Windows [offline], I'd be here pitching a combination of RealWorld Paint, the free version of Photofiltre (with its addon collection installed), and PhoXo as a set of mini-editors that (together) are a pretty formidable alternative to forking over cash for Adobe PS. Even PhoXo is a rinky-dink thing that can do a heckuva lot more than I initially realized (needs way more short-cut keys, though). In the end, though, all the single-frame work done on those would have to be integrated by an animated gif-maker (eh, RealWorld Paint may have the ability to do that, though, now that the faded memory creeps back.)

[cluelusshusbund]

I was going to ask you about that elsewhere, what you used, since you've got Google's OS. Never even tried a Chromebook so don't know much about them apart from their being heavily online-dependent like Webtv was and some of today's mobile devices. (Though they've surely got a gigabytes more sized solid-state drive than the original Webtvs ever had for storing as well as being able to actually do stuff offline.)

Mine is a HP 14" Chromebook 4GB Memory - 16GB Solid State Drive.!!!
I thank some stuff can be done offline but im always online when i use it... lift the screen an from sleep mode you'r online in about 7 seconds... i supose its perty limited but its like magic compared to webtv or msntv2.!!!
It plays you tube videos an i sometimes watch tv shows on it that i forgot to record.!!!
A few mounthes ago i finally started usin a dvd recorder insted of a VCR... but i still use an antenna for tv shows

Had almost forgotten about the online version of ImageMagick, that backbone of webbies for getting artistic affairs done (whether animated gifs and otherwise). GifWorks has long passed away but MyImager (or whatever its name was) is I guess still around.

I hated when GifWorks went away... but even MyImager an ImagMagick quit workin very good... an the way Webtv consistently went down hill it was like death by a thousand cuts... but wit the automatic updates/virus protection... chromebook jus keeps workin grate.!!!

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A few mounthes ago i finally started usin a dvd recorder insted of a VCR...

They seem to last less than five years till the laser either gets out of focus or goes completely kaput. That's why I'd almost say a VCR was still better if not that most of those made over the prior decade start permanently chewing tape within months of purchase from a bad dew sensor or whatever other component the problem is. Deliberate manufactured obsolescence. Freezers from 40 to 50 years ago are still chugging away while the current ones can be belly-up in 8 years or so.

but i still use an antenna for tv shows

"Antenna" as in what it meant back in the '70s? You were maybe referring to Cozi-tv when mentioning Roy Rogers before, then. There might be circa 50 broadcast channels in this area if counting the DTV sub-channels like that (MeTv, RetroTV, GetTV, THIS, Grit, Escape, ION-tv, MyTv, AntennaTv, ZUUS, etc).

It's getting to where broadcast tv almost resembles cable-tv back in its earliest, infant days. One of our friend's relatives had to raise an outdoor antenna to 8 or 9 meters high before they finally got stable reception for all the stations. The "We're not going to pay satellite, cable, etc, anymore!" chant. In the context of their tastes, that was probably the right decision, since they used to surf through channels complaining that there was nothing on when they had such.

[cluelusshusbund]

In the 70's i got my first vcr (mechanical tuner... wired remote) for $1000 at "Service Merchandice"... an even tho we had just bout a house an truck the same year... buyin the vcr didnt put us in a bind cause we was both makin about $5 a houre.!!!

After a few years a tiny incandescent bulb went out "inside" the vcr which kept it from workin... i replaceed the bulb for about 50 cents... an years later i replaced a couple of worn belts... but i had good use from that vcr for about 15 years.!!!

About 4 years ago i got a dvd vcr combo recorder (walmart $160) but i just used the vcr to record;;; the vcr lasted 3 years so i then started usin the dvd recorder... so far so good... an if the dvd part lasts for 5 years i will be very pleased.!!!

Wit my antenna that i put on the roof 4 years ago... i get "AntennaTv" plus 3 other old movie type stations... plus cbs abc nbc an pbs.!!!
Speakin of the Roy Rogers show... Roy an Dale treeted Pat Brady like crap an thout it was funny

I love bein able to find the episode of these old shows at Wikipedia an read biographys of any of the actors.!!!

Aunt Bee (from Mayberry) in her Pin Up days

For me tv has never been so good;;; more stations than ever... reliable... perfect signal (no snow) an still "free"... an when cable shows go to dvd i can get 'em for free at the Liberry.!!!

BTW---Dont get the idea im cheep... im just frugal

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After a few years a tiny incandescent bulb went out "inside" the vcr which kept it from workin... i replaceed the bulb for about 50 cents... an years later i replaced a couple of worn belts... but i had good use from that vcr for about 15 years.!!!

The last good vcr I've seen was ironically a cheapo one of the Orion brand made in 2000. Fourteen years later my in-laws are still using it. All the "quality name" vcrs they tried since 2005 to replace it with went bonkers anywhere from a week after they bought them to a few months. One that was combined with a DVD that could record (rather just play) did keep going, but then the DVD side went-out and somehow caused the whole unit to cease powering-up properly. The "inferior" Orion seems unstoppable no matter how much they abuse it, apparently put together according to an older template. They even gave an equally relentlessly working late 1990s Orion analog tv to an elderly woman who's still using it.

I love bein able to find the episode of these old shows at Wikipedia an read biographys of any of the actors.!!!

Aunt Bee (from Mayberry) in her Pin Up days

That's scary from the standpoint of my future. To see Frances Bavier change that radically.

BTW---Dont get the idea im cheep... im just frugal

Oh, hubby's the same way. You'd feel unexpected misfortune was lurking behind every next month the way he saves money he doesn't have to. Speaking of worn belts, when I asked him to replace one on a PC's optic drive he cut a tiny ring out from an old rubber boot and trimmed it down till the thing finally functioned as a substitute.

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Wit my antenna that i put on the roof 4 years ago... i get "AntennaTv" plus 3 other old movie type stations... plus cbs abc nbc an pbs.!!! [...] For me tv has never been so good;;; more stations than ever... reliable... perfect signal (no snow) an still "free"... an when cable shows go to dvd i can get 'em for free at the Liberry.!!!

Cable really is bleeding to death from multiple wounds.

Concerning the broadcast version, somebody once said that you either get a DTV signal or you don't ... there's no "in-between" of analog days with reflective ghosts and static or noisy pictures resulting from a weak signal. But that's no entirely true. There's all kinds of broken and frozen pixelations and irregular disappearances of the images in reception areas far from the transmitter, when trying to use an indoor antenna or even an outside one too close to the ground.

But once there's a strong, continuous signal provided: Yeah, all those interferences from distant lightning storms and hobby radio transmitters and obstructing buildings are gone for good. Even the converter boxes attached to old analog tvs for making them compatible with DTV broadcasts render spotless SDTV pictures and ultra-quality sound (if hooked up to an external audio system).

[cluelusshusbund]

...hubby's the same way. You'd feel unexpected misfortune was lurking behind every next month the way he saves money he doesn't have to. Speaking of worn belts, when I asked him to replace one on a PC's optic drive he cut a tiny ring out from an old rubber boot and trimmed it down till the thing finally functioned as a substitute.

Good for him... recyclin means less rubbish for the landfills