How to make irregularly-shaped animations

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Katyla
Nov 7, 2006
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Hi, I make lots of animations with Imageready but I’m tired of the standard square or rectangular variety. I’d like to know how to make an animation (with a clip) into an odd shape. I’ve seen some in the shape of a cloud with a music video within the cloud.

I’ve googled and googled but I haven’t found a tutorial. I know I can erase by using the quick mask mode and paintbrush but it isn’t adequate nor do I know how to apply it to all of the frames and not just a lone frame.

I tried to find an example but couldn’t. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Bernie
Nov 7, 2006
Leave some of the pixels transparent.

I’m no expert, but that should do it.
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Phosphor
Nov 8, 2006
You may want to look into creating a "Media Skin" as a windowless "container" for a QuickTime movie.

<http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/mediaskins/> <http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/mediaskins.html>
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Katyla
Nov 12, 2006
Sorry for the late response, I thought I’d get an e-mail notification.

Does this mean I would be able to save it as a .gif?
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Buko
Nov 12, 2006
use Save for web
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Katyla
Nov 12, 2006
I don’t have Save for Web in Imageready.
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Buko
Nov 12, 2006
ImageReady is SFW.

So its save optimized.

set your optimized pallet to whatever settings you want to use.

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