OT: What & How To Do This ???

Nathan_Shane wrote on 9/5/2004, 9:27 AM
I know how to create animated GIF's, but I've never seen animated JPEG's before, could someone please check out the website below and tell me exactly how they did this, and suggest a program good for doing this.

It appears that it is a continuous loop of JPEG's as well. This particular animation is new to me and I'd like to learn how to do it.

Animated JPEG's

I know I can create a streaming video that looks like this in Vegas5, but I don't think V5 creates any kind of animated JPEG's does it?

Comments

goshep wrote on 9/5/2004, 9:42 AM
Looks to me like simple dissolves/transitions/crossfades. Unless I'm not looking at the right area of the page. You are referring to the different guages?
Chienworks wrote on 9/5/2004, 10:42 AM
Animated JPEGs are possible, but very rare. They can only be created as a "push" image stream from the web server. These are not animated. If you look at the HTML code you'll see that they preload all the different "scenes" as individual still .jpg files and then use a script to make the browser rotate through them.
Nathan_Shane wrote on 9/5/2004, 10:44 AM
Yes, I'm refering to the "guage" images which all change, but it's not flash media or animated GIF, it's some kind of animated slideshow of JPEG images, but I'd like to know what program does this and allows for the continuous looping on a webpage...typically you see something like this done as flash, so that's why I'm wanting to know.
Nathan_Shane wrote on 9/5/2004, 10:45 AM
Thanks chienworks, I hadn't thought to view the source code...it never crossed my mind about it being a script...guess the only real way to do something similar then is as flash media. Because it would seem to time consuming to attempt this as animated GIF's.

I guess I'll toy with Vegas5, create a video of similar nature, then capture some individual stills from that and do an animated GIF.
randy-stewart wrote on 9/5/2004, 1:16 PM
When you say "do this in Vegas" I'm assuming you mean using the Bezier mask in Vegas 5 to section out that part of the guage and laying another still or vid of the gauge moving underneath the main still of all of the guages to get the guage to move at will, right? You could even add some engine reving sounds to make it seem real. Cool effect.
Randy