Hi XDA friends,
Recently I've started to mess around with my Moto G's bootanimation.
Tried a few (Blackhole is nice), and opening the zip files, I found a series of .jpg files that are the sequence of images that compose the animation.
Now I'd like to make a bootanimation using a short video of my son, so my question is: is there a program that automates this process, creating the zip or a program that extracts the video frames to .jpg files?
I searched the forum but didn't found this info (maybe I'm not a good searcher, sorry).
Thanks for any help.
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Re: Camera album and other software missing after hard reset
I have an XDA 2S
After having done a hard resest, my camera is not working, each time i take a picture or video and try and save it the following message come up:
Unable to execute album. please make sure album has been installed on your pocket pc. 36001:105:0
I have looked up the apps cds i had with the phone but cannot find this software. How do i get this sofware.
other apps have also disappeared including clear vue df, clearvue ppt, MIDLET manager. where can i get these?
Also when i get videos and audio files sent to me from other phone most videos and audio i cannot seem to play like MP4 and amr files, what do i need to do to play all audio and video files?
As a newbie i dont really know what i am doing so some help and simple instructions would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Rio
read the wiki and don't double post!
wiki.xda-developers.com
sorry but as a newbie i dont know what you mean by wiki?!
download the attachment and install
imatrix
Thanks for the file, i have downloaded it onto my computer.
What do i do with the file, do i just transfer it as it is onto my xda? and where do i transfer it and what do i do?
What does the file have?
Thanks
your help is much appreciated to a newbie!
Transfer it anywhere then just run it using the built-in file explorer or Total Commander. CAB files get deleted once they are installed, so the location doesn't really matter. I'd recommend installing this to the phone, not a storage location.
thanks fraser worked a treat. any ideas how i could play audio .amr files?
Thanks man
hi i already install the cab file and the camera icone appear in program file but after hard rest it is gone again
what shal i do
hey guys , *trying* to get my first boot animation up and running . whenever i render video in Photoshop to get my multiple .pngs , they are way too big . my bootanimation.zip ends up being over 13mb . from what i hear, the reason it is not booting is because there is a size constraint there. im no photoshop wiz , but i read i can mess with optimization settings to reduce size . however , every instructional i find is 3 years old and no longer applies in cs5 .
can someone hold my hand and explain to me how to get the size of this monster down? thanks.
you have a couple options. if you are making an animation from video, you can try removing every other frame. i've done this many times and it usually has no effect on the animation.
another way to reduce image size (or even in addition to the above) would be to use software to compress the png files. i use png gauntlet. it is lossless compression, so there shouldn't be any loss of image quality. also, it has a very user friendly interface, as opposed to pngcrush, for example, which is a command line utility.
http://pnggauntlet.com/
Like stated above. Your png's don't have to be the size of the screen. You just set them up proportional to the screen oriantation and then you set the size in the desc.txt with the first 2 numbers.
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oh, and i'm sure you came across this in your reading, but make sure you do not compress the zip file (in 7zip, select the store option)
Thanks guys . My issue was compressing the zip . Put it in store.mode and it boots now ... but soooo choppy . Its like butter when I play it in Photoshop
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try messing with the fps in desc.txt
if you need any more help, i wouldn't mind giving you a hand if you can post the zip
I have a Samsung galaxy s . We have a 30fps cap on bootanimations I hear... might be that way for all phones . But I don't think that's the issue . I look at the cm7 boot animation, which is gorgeous and smooth , and its at 24 fps. So I dunno . I will post what I have shortly to see if I'm missing something stupid
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For the love of God I cannot find a for Dummies guide!
I want to convert a GIF file into an animation and I am not even sure what programs I need to begin with.
Thanks for any help.
fritzgerald is the guy to ask!
TRusselo said:
fritzgerald is the guy to ask!
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I'll write something up tonight.
you need to extract the frames out of the gif file into multiple .png files.
I use something call Gif Frame Extractor. Search for it on google cause i cant post links. w w w [dot] evanolds [dot] c o m
After you extract the gif files its just a matter of resizing and tweaking your image set.
for the captivates your resolution should be 480 pixles wide by 800 pixles high.
name the series of images Image001.png Image002.png Image003.png etc.. I'm not sure what the max allowed images are but from my experimentation anything over 100 images tend to throw my phone into a bootloop. (be sure to have a good CWM backup handy when that happens)
I might upload a video tutorial/screencast later tonight as soon as i fix my phone (bootloop while trying to make the tutorial haha).
video guide is up on youtube
I made a quick guide on how to extract, edit and package your very own boot animation. The video came out crappy cause my screen capturing software didn't play well with Adobe Preimere. I'll try and make a better one over the weekend, but this should be sufficient for a quick reference.
Thanks mate!
With that and the steps fritzgerald I should be finally able to learn this
and music is bad while trying to pay attention to something important i find. hit mute in first 10 seconds the restarted video... couldnt think. 1
just a note for next time.
and i will be watching next time!
yeah i know its bad i made it at 3 in the morning didn't have time to review the video before work. Like i said the capture software totally konked out on me and premiere didnt want to sync the video correctly so im going to have to do the entire video over again later this week. BTW can anyone recommend a good screen capturing/casting software that plays well with Priemiere?
In the DCIM folder I just see a single mp4 and jpeg file.
Somewhere the 20 still frames are hidden away but I can't find them.
Any ideas how I can backup/restore Zoe files in their entirety so I can still use the full functionality after a reset?
Cheers,
Stuart
To answer my own question, after a bit of experimentation it appears they are hiding in plain sight and saved inside the mp4 file so simply copying that back will do it.
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I just worked out how to do this, so thought someone else may also make use of it. Using a similar command line, you can get VLC to export the frames of a video as jpg (or png) files to make up a framed boot animation.
Code:
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "G:\Transfer\New Folder\01_globe.mp4" --scene-width=720 --scene-height=1280 --rate=1 --video-filter=scene --vout=dummy --start-time=0 --stop-time=44 --scene-format=jpg --scene-ratio=1 --scene-prefix=snap --scene-path=C:\temp\snapshots\
A lot of the command line params are self explanatory, and for the rest and more you can view the VLC documentation.
https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help
There are tutorials galore here on XDA on the next steps to convert the individual image frames to a boot animation.