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I rendered out my Synfig Studio animation as video via ffmpeg using the HuffyUV lossless codec, and then I was ready to move onto Kdenlive and do the keying. The most important technical benefit of Synfig Studio for this job was the fact that it uses floating point precision for colour, so the glows on the ATV Today logo look far better than they would have done in Flash as the colour values would not be prematurely rounded before the final render. However, overall I think Synfig Studio did brilliantly, and I would chose it over Flash if I had to create this sequence again and could choose any program to create it in. Therefore I created eight separate Synfig Studio files for each part of the sequence and created a master file that imports them all and is used to render out the finished sequence.Īnother problem I had was that the key-frame panel shows strange values in the time of length columns – particularly if you forget to set your project to 25 frames per second at the outset. I have been playing with Synfig Studio a lot more since then, and I realised a far more sensible way to work was to have each of what would have been my library symbols in Flash saved as separate Synfig files. This was probably because I came to Synfig from Macromedia Flash and was used to the idea of having a large file containing all the library symbols it used internally. When I did my Spotlight title sequence I exported (saved) all of my encapsulated canvases (akin to Symbols in Flash) that I needed to reuse within my main Synfig file. This does a fabulous job of enabling Inkscape artwork to be used in Synfig Studio, and it will soon be included as standard in Inkscape releases. To do this I was able to use nikitakit’s fantastic new Synfig Studio SIF file Exporter plug-in for Inkscape. It was time to animate my drawings now, so I needed to export my Inkscape drawings into Synfig Studio. However, with this title sequence things were a bit trickier – I needed two key colours, as the titles often contained two completely different video sequences keyed onto it at the same time.Īnd, with that, all the Inkscape drawing was done. This gives a perfect, fringeless key and was the technique I used for my News At One title sequence. I then export my animation as a PNG32 image sequence and play any video I need underneath it.

Instead of keying, I make “cut-outs” (transparent areas) in my animation. Usually, when I have to create video keyed onto animation I cheat.

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However one thing I was not too sure about was how to key video onto the finished sequence. The ATV Today title sequence is mostly straightforward, as it uses techniques I’ve already used in the Spotlight South-West titles I created last year. It’s always good to do this before you start a lot of work on graphics or animation so that you don’t waste a lot of time creating things you can’t eventually use. After I have my key-frame list I then do any experimenting I need to do if there are any parts of the sequence I’m not sure how to achieve.