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Post by OrochiGeese on Sept 12, 2019 4:18:31 GMT
Does anyone know of a free program that crops video or animated GIFS?
I want to capture spots in a Fire Pro ring and present them as happening somewhere else for backstage attack angles. So I want to edit out the majority of the screen other than just the spot.
Bonus if there's green screen functionality so I can put it on interesting backgrounds.
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Post by Ramon on Sept 12, 2019 7:04:18 GMT
I use gifcam (software GIFcam) to capture matches/spots, it's super easy to use and make gifs. Then after I've captured my gifs I head over to EZgif to work down the file sizes if it's something I want to publish on the workshop or elsewhere. I'm not great with GIMP or photoshop like that so I tend to take the easy way out. :) |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Sept 12, 2019 18:47:17 GMT
Cool, thanks for the suggestions! I really appreciate it and will give those a try 😎👍
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Post by DM_PSX on Sept 15, 2019 4:52:43 GMT
Blender (the program I am making venues with) is free and also has a video editor.
You can add your videos in, then cut out just the parts you need, and use a transform operation to zoom in onto them as needed.
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Post by OrochiGeese on Sept 15, 2019 5:15:08 GMT
Oh wow, thanks! 👍 So if I understand, I can use Blender to zoom in ("transform operation" as its called) on an AVI that I import into the program, effectively cropping the videos via zoom? That would definitely work. Would the resulting video look kinda pixelated or low resolution due to the zoom? I saw your link in my tweet to this: docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/video_editing/sequencer/strips/effects/transform.htmlLooks like that's how I do it. Thanks again. I'll give this a try! |
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Post by DM_PSX on Sept 15, 2019 5:38:00 GMT
Oh wow, thanks! 👍 So if I understand, I can use Blender to zoom in ("transform operation" as its called) on an AVI that I import into the program, effectively cropping the videos via zoom? That would definitely work. Would the resulting video look kinda pixelated or low resolution due to the zoom? I saw your link in my tweet to this: docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/video_editing/sequencer/strips/effects/transform.htmlLooks like that's how I do it. Thanks again. I'll give this a try! Yep. You can do anything with your video once you add it in. Use it as a texture map, etc... Zooming is like cropping, but it keeps the canvas the same size. You can set the render output canvas size to whatever you want too. Watch the video I linked. If you make an all green ring (0,255,0), you can green screen the wrestlers out like I did to make some of my video promos I posted in the creativity section. Blender is a great swiss army knife of graphics programs. It started out as a low polygon model editor that was used only in-house until the company went under. Then the original programmer bought it back and made it GPL (public domain). Now he has a team working on it 24/7 getting grants and donations to continue working on it. And they do competitions in the summer where teams fix or rework parts of the program that need improvement, etc.. So now it can do 2D animation, 3D animation. Low polygon modeling, high polygon modeling (sculpting), video editing, etc... It went from being a clunky piece of garbage (I used to call it Blunder pre-2009), to top tier / industry standard. The guy who runs the Blender foundation ( twitter.com/tonroosendaal ) has made it his life's mission to make sure we all have access to top quality graphics and animation tech. So he's constantly gathering donations from users and big companies to keep improving on it. Watch a few videos on youtube, starting with one I posted, and you'll get what you want in no time. |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Sept 15, 2019 7:14:35 GMT
Downloaded and installed.
Was having an issue importing MP4's but fixed it!
Definitely seems like a really comprehensive, professional program. A little intimidating at first but I'll watch that video and check out all the guides I can get my hands on.
Thanks again for the suggestion and description! 💡
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Post by OrochiGeese on Sept 15, 2019 9:27:51 GMT
WOW - this worked. It took me a few hours to really understand what to do. But it worked. I was able to crop the video down, "render" (export) it as an MP4, then upload it Giphy for an animated GIF! Thank you SOOOO much, DM! This was exactly what I was looking for! 🏆😀👍 Here's what I was trying to do:  I took a picture of asphalt online and turned it into a ring to simulate a parking lot. I'm happy with how this went but I know it's not perfect. Since this was a C!C move, it was difficult to cut out the sides/ropes entirely. But for a spot that is centered in the ring without too much movement around the ring, I can do a lot of cool things with this! Thank you to Ramon and Dawnbreaker for their suggestions too 😃 Dawn talked me through the situation and gave me some great tips as to how to do things manually in case I couldn't find a program. |
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Post by DM_PSX on Sept 15, 2019 10:14:14 GMT
]Definitely seems like a really comprehensive, professional program. A little intimidating at first but I'll watch that video and check out all the guides I can get my hands on. Thanks again for the suggestion and description! 💡 You could pretty much make Shrek with it if you wanted to. The operation is called transform because in 3D every object has a few vectors to describe their movement. Translation (move from one point to another) (xyz) Rotation (xyz) Scale (xyz) All 3 together are called a transform. You can pack all those together into a 3x3 grid an it's called a transformation matrix. And you can multiply them together, etc... So you set keyframes with transform matrices and interpolate between them. In your case, this would let you not only zoom, but move and rotate around to keep track of the action, instead of having to pick one spot. Or zoom in on the move as it happens, and zoom out for the post move taunt. Than you can do more advanced things, like this: |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Sept 15, 2019 22:14:20 GMT
You could pretty much make Shrek with it if you wanted to. I accept the responsibility of creating Shrek 4 but I don't know if the world is ready for it. "Shrek...wasn't I a donkey yesterday?" "You're a goose now, donkey!" "Then why you still calling me...never mind." The operation is called transform because in 3D every object has a few vectors to describe their movement. Translation (move from one point to another) (xyz) Rotation (xyz) Scale (xyz) All 3 together are called a transform. You can pack all those together into a 3x3 grid an it's called a transformation matrix. And you can multiply them together, etc... So you set keyframes with transform matrices and interpolate between them. In your case, this would let you not only zoom, but move and rotate around to keep track of the action, instead of having to pick one spot. Or zoom in on the move as it happens, and zoom out for the post move taunt. So I was justoperating on only one dimension whereas there are more dimensions I can manipulate to get a cleaner, more effective, and dramatic cropping. If I zoomed in and moved/rotated, I could potentially cut off more of the background as long as the actual video allows me to cut it without cutting off the wrestlers themselves. But that's an issue of my FPW spot placement, not Blender. For a C2C that spot construction isn't always so easy but I probably could have positioned them better so that parts of the wrestlers weren't on the same X or Y axis as the ropes that I wanted to eliminate. Than you can do more advanced things, like this: Damn, that's pretty awesome!! 📺📺📺📺📺📺 |
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Post by DM_PSX on Sept 15, 2019 22:55:00 GMT
Damn, that's pretty awesome!! 📺📺📺📺📺📺 I made a folder with some pre-cut clips, and my show logo 0.mp4 1.mp4 2.mp4 3.mp4 4.mp4 5.mp4 logo.png background.png Then I just put 7 quads and a camera down. I set the middle quad (with the logo mappped to it) away from the camera at frame 0 (set keyframe), then move the timeline to 30 seconds later, and set a new keyframe with the quad really close. Then render it out. I can replace the images in the folder at any time and render it again easily too. |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Sept 16, 2019 3:14:40 GMT
I like how you basically set it up so you can replace the clips so easily while keeping the organization.
Definitely going to play around with this and try to learn some of the terminology. It's a very sophisticated and deep program that I have to gain some more basic familiarity with first. It was kind of a miracle I was even able to get that other clip. It took watching the videos you posted and reading some guides. Like it honestly took me 30 minutes to realize that "rendering" was the output/save function LOL 😥😁
But it got the job done exactly as I envisioned it and in just one night when I thought it would take a week to find a program, learn to use it, and then hope for the best that it worked! Thank you again!! 😎
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Post by DM_PSX on Sept 16, 2019 3:54:58 GMT
An example of something else I mentioned. 1) Make a cutscene edit 2) Set his logic to 100% back away 3) Use an all green (0,255,0) ring I was able to take that video into Vegas (works in Blender too), and crop out the sub clips to green screen them for the videos I made to promote my upcoming show. (There was a thread for this).   |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Sept 16, 2019 5:18:25 GMT
Wow, so you can use Blender to closely crop out video clips from a bigger video with a green screen, then import that video to another one?
I've used Paint.net to crop pics before with green screen backgrounds for transparencies but I've never cropped out sections of actual video before.
I assume you then made a video with the cropped video on top of the background, rendered it, then brought the resulting video over to a GIF maker?
Good idea about setting dummy opponent with 100% back off logic. Usually what I've done in the past is either set 2P or have a CPU that I just beat on until they can't get up. Then I do the taunt for cropping.
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Post by DM_PSX on Sept 16, 2019 5:28:41 GMT
You have layers. Background Actor (color keyed, green screened, whatever) Text I loaded up the above video, and cut out different sections into preset strips. (mic talk, shrug, dance, etc...) and then I just placed the strips where I needed them in the timeline, and transformed them into position. docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/video_editing/index.html |
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