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| Anonymous #895191 6 months ago |
...Is this cake real? |
| Gittonsxv #895197 6 months ago |
hehe pinkie is so nice ^-^ |
| SenatorSufficient #895208 6 months ago |
Not sure if want... |
| Sindaras #895213 6 months ago |
no, tis' a LIE! |
| ZePassionateOne #895223 6 months ago |
I have to ask Kuren...how or what do you use to download the videos to make the gifs so fast and in such high quality? |
| Mr_Jack #895229 6 months ago |
DEATH.
BY SNU SNU! |
| Fuzzy_Logic #895237 6 months ago |
his name is SHANNON HOOFSTAMPER |
| Mushi #895269 6 months ago |
i got sad for this guy |
| Roboshi #895278 6 months ago |
Daw, I liked that little touch. The mere sound that it's somepony's birthday and she gives him a slice of cake. |
| CranialHeartache #895408 6 months ago |
Agreed with Roboshi. I'm also glad because I didn't feel as bad for him as I would have otherwise. |
| ThemsAllTook #895776 6 months ago |
@ZePassionateOne
I'm the one who assembled this gif. The process I use is very specific to my setup on Mac OS X; if you're on another operating system you'll need to find a different process and tools that'll work for you. As soon as XyroTR1's 720p video is posted on YouTube, I download it as MP4 (Safari can directly download any HTML5 YouTube video), and after watching it once, I go back and look for good moments to turn into gifs. Once I find one, I trim out that segment with QuickTime Pro (QuickTime Player X is useless; QuickTime Player 7 is the one you want) and export it as an image sequence. I browse through the images in Finder using Quick Look to find a good looping point. If there are repeated frames, I delete them (more on this in a moment). When I've found a satisfactory loop (or something close enough that I can get to loop with minimal editing), I import all of the images into GIMP as layers. In GIMP, metadata about each frame is specified in the name of its layer. The only metadata we care about at the moment is the frame interval, which is approximately 41 milliseconds for 24 FPS animation. I append " (41 ms)" to the name of each layer, adjusting the interval to 82 ms or more if I have repeated frames. In the case of this particular gif, I duplicated the animation for the blink and facial expression change and reversed it, and gave the two still frames an interval of 820 ms each. I try to keep my edits minimal, but sometimes I'll paste parts of different frames together to remove hub logos, credit text, or occasionally characters who step into the frame and ruin the loop. Once all of that's done, I just crop, scale down a bit (scaling interpolation helps hide video compression artifacts), run the "Optimize for GIF" filter, save, and post it! It sounds harder than it is; a simple animation only takes a few minutes total to put together. |
| Shad0will #896108 6 months ago |
TAKE THE CAKE, DAMNIT |
| Anonymous #896202 6 months ago |
@ThemsAllTook: When you're exporting an animated GIF in GIMP, you can specify a default interval, then you don't have to rename each individual layer. |
| ThemsAllTook #896238 6 months ago |
@Anonymous: Yup, I do that sometimes. Optimize for GIF assigns 100 ms to all of the frames that are unspecified, though, so I have to either override the interval for everything or rename them. Though maybe there's a way to change Optimize for GIF's default? |
| imnotgivingmynametoamachine #896673 6 months ago |
@Roboshi - Agreed. Felt kinda sorry for him when they closed the door, but much happier when he got his cake slice. |
| SakuraAyanami #897379 6 months ago |
I PROPOSE THAT HIS NAME SHOULD BE PRINT STONE |
| Anonymous #898223 6 months ago |
His name is PONY EXPRESS because fuck you, that's why |
| Anonymous #905941 5 months ago |
My birthday was 2 days after that episode. Was Pinkie bribing me (and everyone else with birthdays around this time) to accept her as best pony? |