Multiple picture morph

[nighthawk700]

Hi, I'm demoing Morpheus Photo Morpher (read some very good reviews). I tried looking through the FAQ, tutorials, and this forum, but haven't found the answer to this yet. I'm trying to do a multiple photo morph. Right now I have three photos in it, I'd like to do more, like the morph example with the boy growing up. However, first I'm trying it with my first daughter, then want to add my second daughter and then morph her as well. (i.e. a timeline of my kids from birth to now) But when I add additional dots once my second daughter is on the scene (photo 2 and 3), it then tries to put the dots on photo 1 as well. Is that the way it works for all multiples? The same set of dots must be used in every photo? If that is the case, is there a work around? The only thing I can think of is to put all the dots that will be used in later photos into a corner where they won't do much harm, but that seems to be clunky.

Granted, I was trying this late at night so maybe I missed something?

Thanks

[Ark]

That sample on our website with the boy going from 1st to 8th grade is included with the program. You can load it up to play around with if you want. As long as your morphs are linked on the Timeline, they will share dots, because they reduces the amount of work you have to do in order to create the morph. If you want to unlink the morphs, just right click on the Morph buttons in the Timeline window and pick that option. Then each morph can have two pictures and its own set of dots.

[nighthawk700]

Ah... unlink! That sounds like the ticket. I guess it'll be a lot more work, but I want the first 2 years of my older daughter growing up alone, then add in my second one, then morph them from pic to pic.

Would I be able to do something like link the first 5 pictures together (so they all share the dots), then unlink, then link the next 5 pictures together? (I'm not at my home computer right now, I'll try this tonight after getting the above mentioned daughters to bed :D ) Or if I unlink, then they all have to go picture to picture? Oh well, experiementing is part of the fun.

Once my wife and I figure out if we want *.avi, or if swf is good enough, we'll register. Thanks for the help!

[Ark]

Yes, you can unlink each morph individually however you want.

[nighthawk700]

I finally got a chance to try the unlinking, and it's just want I wanted to do. Thanks.

I didn't realize the trial software was limited to how many renderings you can do (3), I thought it was a time limit (i.e. 1 week then that's it). So I never got to try doing an avi file. Do they tend to look smoother than the flash files? Are there any examples of a morph done in flash and in avi to see the differences? Or is it differences in file size?

Right after I typed the above, I went to show my wife what the animation looks like in the program itself, and it said the limit was 20 and I was past that as well. You might want to consider documenting what the trial limits are so people will at least know in advance. I'm going to get the program, we just need to figure out if we need the avi or not, depends on the info in the previous paragraph.

[Ark]

Smoothness of the morph can be more determined by the Frames per Second setting. More frames per second results in a smoother morph which goes by quicker. You can increase the total number of frames in the morph to make it last longer, which of course increases the file size. For example, the default 15fps morph for 15 frames, lasts 1 second. If you increase the fps to 30, the same 15 frames only last 0.5 second. Increase the number of frames to 30 to have it last 1 second, and the file size will likely be twice as much.

AVI vs SWF is more about where you want to use the files at. If you want to import files into movie editing software, AVIs are probably better. If you want to post morphs online or on a webpage someplace, SWF is probably easier to work with since it is better supported via html.