Corel PHOTO-PAINT Help | Saving movies

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Saving movies

You can save a movie before or after you add the background and objects; however, when you save a movie as a an animated GIF or to the AVI format, objects are automatically combined with the background in every frame and are no longer editable.

If you want use a movie on a webpage, save it to the animated GIF file format. When you save a movie to this format, you must convert it to an 8-bit palette, consisting of 256 colors. For information on converting a 24-bit image to 8-bit Paletted color mode, see Converting images to the black-and-white color mode.

When you save a movie to animated GIF format, you can make a color transparent, which lets you see the background of a webpage through the movie. You can also specify the number of times your movie replays.

To save a movie

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Click File

Save as.

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Choose the folder where you want to save the file.

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From the Save as type list box, choose a file format.

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Type a filename in the File name box, and click Save.

To save a movie as an animated GIF

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Click File

Save as.

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Choose the folder where you want to save the file.

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Type a filename in the File name box.

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Choose GIF - GIF animation from the Save as type list box, and click Save.

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In the Convert to paletted dialog box, modify the settings you want, and then click OK.

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In the GIF 89 animation options dialog box, click the Frame settings tab.

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Enable one of the following options in the Palette area:

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Use global — uses the same color palette for all frames

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Use local — uses a different color palette for each frame

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Type a value in the Frame delay box to specify the length of time between frames.

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Click one of the following buttons:

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Apply changed only — applies only the frame settings that have changed

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Apply all — applies all frame settings


You can also
Choose a color to appear transparent in the movie	Enable the Image color option, and click Select color. In the Select color dialog box, choose a color and click OK.
Refresh the image after each frame is loaded	Enable the Interlace rows check box.
Specify the number of pixels a frame is offset	Type values in the X and Y boxes to offset the current frame from the top left corner of the page. Type values in the dX and dY boxes to offset each successive frame from the preceding frame.
Specify how the previous frame disappears	Choose an option from the How to dispose list box. To make a transparent background, choose Replace with background.
Play the animation repeatedly	Click the File settings tab, enable the Loop frame check box, and enable an option in the Frame repetition area.
Specify the page size	Enable the Automatic check box or type values in the Width and Height boxes to set the background size manually.
Save only the pixels that differ from the first frame	Enable the Save difference between frames only check box.

Changes are applied only to selected frames. Select all frames in the left window to apply changes to all frames.

When you save a movie as an animated GIF, objects are automatically combined with the background of each frame. This means that you can no longer edit the objects separately from the image.

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