Hello,
 
I am in need of some help for Photoshop CS3 animation I have only had Photoshop a few months so im not that good. And this is my first time on this forum.
 
What I have done is made an animation with 72 layers and 73 animation frames. I have used black text and on a transparent background. While in Photoshop it plays fine but no matter if i export as movie or save as gif all i ever get is a pure black view.  
 
The only exception is when i export using Render Video is i choose render option "premultiplied with white" then when i play the exported .mov i still get a black screen but i can finally see the animation drawn in black with white just behind it.
 
How do I make the animation or any animation so i can use it as an overlay in a video. I just want the text to show up no background or sometimes would like to add a picture as a background with colored text.
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am running Photoshop CS3 not full suite. I also have Photoshop Elements 7 as well as Premiere Elements 7 and multiple video editing programs. I am also running the cursed Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit.
 
I have photoshop set to rgb and I choose a transparant background I have tried export and I even loaded the file in Adobe Premiere Elements 7 and still I get only a black background.
 
Please Advise
Thanks in Advance
Grendor  

Make sure to use Save for Web instead of the normal Save

 
 
Hello,
 
Thanks for the help and information, I will give it a try and let you know.
 
Thanks Again.
Grendor

Hello Legace,
 
Well I still dont have it working and I am about to give up on it. I tried as you suggested and if i open the .gif in quicktime it look like it is working. But the second i bring it into a video editing program to act as an overlay I now only get a white screen with only the first frame of the animation. I guess I should have started to learn more before i tried this current task.
 
Thanks for the Help.
Grendor

I don't think you can import animated gifs straight into a video editing program - it would only see the gif as an image, not a video/animation.

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Hello Ghost,
 
Thanks for the information I am getting so confused with trying to do what i thought was a simple task.
 
Im just trying to make my own write-on text in an overlay for some home movies. And I am loosing my hair over it. I wish I had an apple as it has a great program to do it. Any ways thanks for the information again, and I guess I will keep googleing till i find out how to do it.
 
Thanks
Grendor

What program are you using? Most should allow you to add text as an overlay on the movie.

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I have Corel Video X2, Adobe Premier Elements 7, Magix video 14 & 15, also have Pinnacle Studio 12 ultimate and Nero 9. I can do text in them but i am trying to do write-on style just like hand writing.
 
Thanks
Grendor
 
Edit: I forgot I also have Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9
 
 
These are all paid and Registered versions (not cracks or copies)

Ah, I see... in that case I guess you need to find a way of converting an animated gif into mpeg or a similar video format. I shouldn't think that would be too difficult to do... well except for the transparency issue...

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Hello,
 
Yes it has been fun trying to find how to do it. I have made animation in Photoshop CS3 as a test and it looks good. But the second I try to export or save as I get an all black screen. I thought youtube would show how but have not yet come across any yet.
 
Thanks again.
Grendor

Well, sorry I can't be any more help, but good luck in your endeavour

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