Synfig/C2/E-card-animation/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:01	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on “E-card animation” using Synfig.
00:05	In this tutorial, we will learn to create an E-card animation using some png images.
00:11	Here, we will learn to- import png format images,
00:16	animate the images,
00:18	do text animation,
00:20	preview the animation,
00:22	render the animation in avi format.
00:25	For this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Linux 14.04 OS,
00:32	Synfig version 1.0.2
00:35	Let us open Synfig.
00:38	Go to Dash home and type Synfig.
00:42	You can open Synfig by clicking on the logo.
00:47	Now, let us start creating the e-card animation.
00:52	We need to first save our Synfig file.
00:56	Go to File and click on Save.
00:59	Select the folder in which to save.
01:02	Type the filename as E-card-animation and click on the Save button .
01:07	First we will go to the Toolbox and click on the Rectangle tool.
01:12	Then draw a rectangle on the canvas as demonstrated.
01:17	We will change the settings such that the imported image fits inside the canvas.
01:23	To do so, go to Edit. Click on Preferences and then on Misc.
01:30	Click on the option Scaling new imported image to fix canvas.
01:35	Now, click on Ok. This option will import the images such that they fit within the canvas.
01:44	Please note: We need to import the images in png format.
01:49	This is because other image formats like jpg/jpeg behave differently on the Synfig canvas.
01:58	Also, after rendering, the output quality is better when png images are used.
02:05	Let’s come back to the Synfig interface.
02:09	Go to File and click on Import.
02:12	I have saved the required images in the E-card-animation folder, inside my Documents folder.
02:20	These images are provided in the Code files link, on this webpage itself.
02:26	Please locate the link “Code files” and save the images on your machine.
02:31	Now, practise along with me.
02:34	Select the Bg image and click on Import.
02:37	We get the Bg image on the canvas.
02:41	To resize the image- first hold the orange dot or the orange duck and move the mouse in or out as shown, to make the Bg image fit the canvas.
02:55	Now, select the Cake image in the folder and click on Import.
03:00	We get the Cake image on our canvas. In the same way, import all the other images too.
03:08	Observe, we have three new layers named - Cake, Flowers and Balloons.
03:14	Let us now resize these images. Go to Layers panel.
03:19	First select the Cake layer. Observe that on selection, the resize handles appear on the canvas.
03:27	Click on the orange dot and resize the Cake image.
03:32	Repeat the same process and resize the other two images also.
03:38	Now, move the images and keep them outside the canvas, as demonstrated.
03:45	Then go to the Animation panel. Click on Turn on animate editing mode icon.
03:52	Place the Time cursor on 30th frame.
03:56	Select the Cake layer.
03:58	Move the Cake image to the left bottom of the canvas, as shown.
04:05	Next, select the Balloons layer.
04:08	Place the Time cursor on the 30th frame.
04:11	Go to Keyframes panel and click on Add a keyframe.
04:16	Now, place the Time cursor on the 48th frame.
04:21	Go to Keyframes panel and click on Add a keyframe.
04:27	Move the Balloons image to the mid-left of the canvas.
04:31	Again, place the Time cursor on the 60th frame.
04:36	Go to Keyframes panel and click on Add a keyframe.
04:41	Move the Flowers image to the right bottom of the canvas.
04:47	Next, we will add a line of text to go with this animation.
04:52	Before that, let me switch off the animation.
04:57	To do so, click on Turn off animate editing mode icon.
05:02	Let us add the text. Since the default Fill colour is white, the text will not be visible on the white background.
05:12	So, I will change this colour to black.
05:16	Now, go to the Toolbox and click on the Text Tool.
05:20	Then click anywhere on the canvas. We get Input text dialog box.
05:27	Here, we will type the text “Happy Birthday”.
05:32	Click on Ok.
05:36	Observe that we can now see the text on the canvas.
05:40	Now, go to the Layers panel and select the text layer.
05:45	Next go to the Parameters panel and click on Size.
05:51	Change its value to 80 pixels and then change the colour value to violet.
05:57	Go to the Toolbox and click on the Text Tool. Once again click on the canvas.
06:04	We get another Input text dialog box.
06:09	In this text box, type: “Have a wonderful, happy, healthy birthday now and forever”.
06:21	And then click on Ok. We can now see this text also on the canvas.
06:27	Go to the Parameters panel and click on Size.
06:32	Change the value to 30 pixels and change the colour to black.
06:38	Now, let’s go to the Layers panel.
06:41	Click on the first text layer and change the name of that layer to Happy Birthday.
06:48	Similarly, click on the other text layer and change the layer name to Now and Forever.
06:56	It is a good habit to name the layers appropriately.
07:01	This will help us to locate them easily in the future.
07:06	Now, move the text layers outside the canvas, as demonstrated.
07:13	Click on Turn on animate editing mode icon.
07:18	Then, go to Layers panel. Select the Happy Birthday layer.
07:24	Now, Place the Time cursor on the 72nd frame.
07:29	Go to Keyframes panel and click on Add a keyframe. Move the text as demonstrated.
07:37	Next, go to the Layers panel and select Now and forever layer.
07:44	Then place the Time cursor on the 90th frame.
07:48	Go to Keyframes panel and click on Add a keyframe once again.
07:55	Now, go to the canvas and move the text Now and forever as demonstrated.
08:02	Now save our Synfig file.
08:05	Go to File and click on Save.
08:09	Let us now check the preview. Go to File and then click on Preview.
08:15	Set the quality as 0.5 and FPS as 24.
08:24	Click on the Preview button. Then click on the Play button.
08:29	We can see a preview of the animation on the screen.
08:33	Close the Preview window.
08:35	Lastly, let us render the animation.
08:38	To do that, click on File and then on Render.
08:43	Go to the Render setting window.
08:46	Click on Choose. Open the Save render as window.
08:50	Click on Document. Click on E-card-animation folder.
08:55	Change the name to E-card-animation.avi.
09:00	Click on Target drop down menu. Select the extension as ffmpeg.
09:06	Click on the Time tab and change the End time to 110. Then click on Render.
09:20	Let us check our animation. Go to Documents.
09:24	Double Click on E- card-animation folder.
09:26	Select E- card-animation.avi .
09:30	Right-click and play the animation using Firefox web browser.
09:39	With this, we have come to the end of this tutorial.
09:44	Let us summarize. In this tutorial, we learnt to create an E-card animation.
09:50	We also learnt to: import images,
09:54	animate the images, do text animation,
09:57	preview the animation and render the animation in .avi format.
10:04	Here is an assignment for you. Locate the Flower image which is provided in the Code files link.
10:11	Using the Flower images, create a similar animation.
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