Ruessel Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Can you help me with a problem ?I am making a cartoon for the last 30 years.I have the background on paper and I have the figures on transparent plastic paper.Now I am in the middle of digitalising it.Some of the backgroundpapers are on rolls, with different lengths.I had to cut the rolls into individual pieces so I could scan them into my computer as jpg files.Then using your paint net, I started to put the individual pieces together into new rolls as new jpg files. It is no problem fixing the individual pieces together perfectly using paint net. Maybesomeone has an idea to make the next step easier.Now I must cut these new rolls ( e.g. 5500 pxl x 480 pxl )into new individual pieces ( exactly 840 pxl x 480 pxl )From one roll I must make over 500 cuts to get a free flowing movie.As you can imagine I have so much work ( using strg arrow, strg c, strg y, strg shift s, change png - jpg and then giving a new name ) for one cut.Question: is there a way to do this easier or a quicker way to save time?Excuse my english but I am germanI would greatly apreciate it, if you could help me.Thanking youRuessel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Hello Ruessel - welcome to the forum!I really like your style of cartoon - that avatar is great! I cannot really give you much advice but wonder why you are changing from png to jpg?I would think stay with png for the 'master' version if possible. png retains quality and saves transparency, but is a big file size. jpg will loose quality if you re-save. (It would be easy to make a lower quality/smaller file size version later on - but not the other way round). I would also think the animation software would compress the quality/reduce the file size.Pdn is not really designed for batch processing but it may be worth investigating the 'Scriptlab' plugin here: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=6091- It can chain effects together but cannot do operations affecting selection and saving - cropping etcHave you tried the fixed size option for the rectangle select? (set to 840 px by 480 px).Many people recommend the free program 'Irfanview' for batch processing. I haven't used it myself, and not sure if that would help you either.Hopefully someone with some relevant experience may give you a more useful answer later. 1 Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruessel Posted October 12, 2014 Author Share Posted October 12, 2014 Thank you for answer me. Now I found a little program called autohotkey what is very usefull. I use Irfan view often and the fixed size option for the rectangle select is my way of cutting backgrounds. Here is a small scene of my movie: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Looks good Ruessel - thanks for sharing!Sorry I can't be of more help but my only experience is of making a few Windows Movie Maker animations using Pdn. With far fewer frames to deal with than you have. Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maemadden Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 (edited) I appreciate the way you have made your cartoons and it would indeed be wiser to let them be in png format for a good quality. Today, however we have many application that can be used to create animation digitally and we can also add in them 3d motion graphics that makes them more attractive and alive. Edited January 24, 2015 by maemadden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 @Ruessel! You are so welcomed. Very nice video, thanks for effort. Good luck. Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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