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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 Frame per second 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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10:35 Spoken Tutorial project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India.
10:42 This is Shital Joshi along with the Spoken Tutorial Animation Team from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for joining.

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