Animation concept

Hey, is anyone into using FF to process animation frames, or possibly even into creating keyframe animations with it? I had this idea of how to use FF to automatically "tween" between two extremes. I'll explain it if someone is interested...

Yes, you got it, making FF do the work of drawing in all the pictures in between two frames which are, say, 5 seconds apart. I just had an idea of how to control a "slider" position through a Photoshop/ImageReady batch process.

Of course, would be muy cool if you could just do it right in FF, but in the meanwhile...

Well, since I'm likely to forget it sooner or later if I don't say it now, here's the concept:

- The idea is to have a one-dot grayscale "counter" in the Photoshop image that corresponds to the slider position, black is extreme left, white is extreme right, and gray values are values in between.

- You would have to modify the filter slightly so that instead of using the slider, you'd use the gray value of the dot to make the filter behave differently. (Basically this means doing an offset that spreads that one dot to cover the whole image and then mapping that result to an input.)

- Batch process the number of frames (let's say you need 150 of them) in Photoshop to include the one-dot grayscale "counter". (The counter could be the top-leftmost pixel in the image), then batch process the individual images with the modified filter.

If I come up with some practical filter that uses this method, I'll post it.

interesting, but how you gonna make FF trigger off that dot? or, how you gonna make a single control trigger off that one dot? not sure FF has any if/then components, per se.

Yes, that's right. In it's most basic simplicity it is as attached. Instead of mapping the output to the Result component, just map it to an input where you would put the slider. Black = minimum, white = maximum in most cases. Not all components take an image input, but plenty of them do. Just think of the gray value as slider position and you get the idea.

Corner dot.ffxml