Question – Animation – Fade in and out

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Hecate
Apr 1, 2004
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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:55:38 GMT, Eric Gill
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(Tacit) wrote in m07.aol.com:

Yes. The newest version is Flash MX.

That is, Flash MX 2004.

Don’t you just love what happens when the marketing department gets involved?

I suppose when we get to 2010 they’ll change the name to Flash MMX…

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Per Andersson
Apr 1, 2004
Tacit wrote:
I am looking for a program that can create animations that fade in

from transparent and out with timing and other effects. Could someone

give me a suggestion of a program with the version number?

You can do this as an animated GIF using ImageReady, but you will likely be unhappy with the results. A GIF image permits only 256 colors. Each shade of color qualifies as a different color. So when you get fade in and fade out effects, each discrete color at each stage f the fade counts as a different color; the result is usually a rather unpleasant dithering effect.
Also, animated GIF images with fades tend to be quite large. An animated GIF image records those pixels which have changed in each frame; when an image fades, every pixel changes.

I believe there is an option to use some other transision? I don’t remember the name of it, but it randomly switches pixels "on" to create an illusion of one image fading into another. The animation will be small because each pixel only changes value once.

I am almost certain I used ImageReady for this:

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