shadowrelm opened this issue on Nov 21, 2005 ยท 6 posts
shadowrelm posted Mon, 21 November 2005 at 10:59 AM
I just made a cool animation in imageready and would like to turn it into a screensaver. How do I do this?
gillbrooks posted Mon, 21 November 2005 at 11:18 AM
You need a screensaver creator programme. There are hundreds around, many are free but mostly only do slideshows. YOu need one that will use animated gifs, MOV or flash (not sure how you saved your file) and none of those are free. 2 good options for that type are AnimateIt or Active Media Eclipse or Active Media Storm. If you don't want to fork out for these programmes, IM me and if you can get your animation to me I can create the screensaver for you
Gill
Thelby posted Mon, 05 December 2005 at 1:06 AM
I make animated GIFs with Xara3D, mostly texts. I will save the product in my "PICTURES" file, that's where all my Wallpaper is stored, I can then go the desktop and right click on it and set my animated GIF as Wallpaper. It then runs on my desktop like a Screensaver. I am unsure if will work for an ImageReady Document, but I don't see why it would not. I used this method with other peoples "FREE" Animated GIFs and it still works.
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staigermanus posted Wed, 07 December 2005 at 7:53 PM
Attached Link: http://www.irfanview.com
Try Irfanview (on PC) - it has standalone executable export for slideshows, as well as .scr for screensaver export. www.irfanview.com I'm looking into another one that may become (hopefully) a plugin for Dogwaffle.
Sans2012 posted Tue, 13 December 2005 at 8:47 PM
If you can use animated giff extension for screen savers, imageready exports to this format. Go to "Save for web" set to "animated gif" at max for best results and there you go.
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staigermanus posted Tue, 13 December 2005 at 10:12 PM
I'm not an expert at this but I think a screensaver file ends in .scr, and is an executable of some sorts, although it may have the ability of running animated gifs or avi and others. With irfanview, you can certainly package a bunch of images, animated Gifs and mp3 sound files into a screen saver. It's one thing to produce the media bits, it's another to present it as a screensaver application. I would not recommend animated Gif unless you don't care about the lack of colors. A frame in a Gif or Animated gif is 8-bit deep and this only 256 colors deep. In some cases that's alright. Hey, it's only a screensaver :-) but for some it's important to see the thousands or millions of colors of the images in the show.