Easy structure animation?

#1

Sometimes I feel like doing “making of” -animations like this:

Photoshop CS4 (Extended) has some gif animation tool and it has some automatic settings to do frames from layers. Problem is that for this purpose the first layers should also stay visible. So is there any way to automate it so that the layers below would stay visible from their starting point to the end? When there is a lot of layers it takes some time to adjust the endpoint of everyone. Or is there some other easy way of doing these?

Thank you in advance. :slight_smile:

#2

Maybe some more explanation. There is menu option called “Make frames from layers” in animation window and when shown in timeline mode it makes something like this:

But it would make it easier if there would be a trick to do something like this:

It’s not a major pain, but with bunch of more layers or if you decide to change some animation options, it could save some time. Recording actions is not active (greyed, can’t be used) for some reason, when animation window is visible, so that doesn’t help.

#3

Setting frame end time also doesn’t work when multiple layers are selected. Apparently there might not be an obvious solution OR it’s so obvious that I just can’t see it. :blush: But as mentioned - this is not an issue with couple of layers (like in example), but sometimes there are plenty and one might consider changing animation settings after done all the work (when work must be done again). Just trying to reduce “not so creative” part of work. :smiley: So if anyone has some ideas or some other tool to make nice animations describet, I’d like to know.

Skripting maybe (not familiar with that - yet)? Something like:

“for all layers do end_time = animation_end_time”

#4

Raising this old thread, since I accidentally found a solution to this. At least in Photoshop CS4 animation window has happy feature/bug which does the job described in the original post just by doing following secuence:

  1. choose “make frames from layers”

  2. set lenght of the animation to something very short, shorter than one frame (animation window menu, document settings)

  3. set lenght of the animation back to desired lenght and “tadaa”, every frame is visible to the end of the animation, just as I wanted! :thumbsup:

This accident just spared me adjusting the lenght of another 56 layers…

#5

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