Thursday, January 1, 2009
Converting Scratch files
Hi, I'm thinking of rotoscoping in Scratch and am wondering if the animation can be put into something like iMovie for editing and display. Is this possible? Or should I stick with Photoshop? I'd like to add some animation to my portfolio and scratch is really fun, but I don't know if I can present something like that in an interview, it just doesn't feel "artsy" enough to me. I think that the scripting that Marisa Olsen had in Java was more professional but I don't know how to access programs that would allow me to do the same.
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hey robert, what kinds of programs do you have? maybe if we know that, then we can see what would work with your setup. flash is probably the easiest because you can draw right on top of video frames. adobe after effects should work as well. i'm asking around to see if there are shareware programs like flash or imovie, but no success now.
I have the old Adobe creative suite, so it comes with photoshop, illustrator, ImageReady, the whole bunch. I'm really only familiar with photoshop. I've played around with illustrator but don't really understand it. I'm mostly worried about presentation, I want to be able to put my work on a universal kind of player so that almost anyone can view it.
Thanks for putting the effort into looking these programs, I love Scratch!
Well, you can always link to your scratch files. For instance, you could set up a website portfolio on blogger or wordpress. When you are done with a Scratch project, upload it to the MIT Site. On the page with your project, there is a link on the right that says "Embed." Click on that and copy the second bit of text that says "Applet." Create a new entry on your blog, and click on "View HTML" or whatever the link is to get to the html. paste it in. I'm going to try it on the next blog post to make sure it works.
Okay, posted an example of Scratch in a blog.
As for a more universal player, I would say you can go with making video that would go on a DVD (you can use Adobe Premier or After Effects to edit video and put in animation or special effects) or post videos, images, applets, etc. on a blog that would serve as your website.
You can use photoshop and image ready to make animated gifs, illustrator has a tiny bit of 3D capacity (don't expect much). Photoshop even has some website making capacity (though I would just use a blog).
I don't know if you can burn a DVD from after effects or premier, but it should let you export a quicktime file, which is compact and widely acceptable at most places.
Okay, hope that helps. Let me know if you have specific questions. If this is for something like an art school portfolio, definitely let me know and I can make sure you get the right format.
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