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how to save a rocking set

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Lou Jost wrote:
Wed May 13, 2020 5:38 am
My solution is to make a rocking synthetic stereo GIF in Zerene
I do have the sequence of stereo variants, but where is the option to save it as a rocking image?
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Re: how to save a rocking set

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Options/Preferences/Stacking/"Stereo/Rocking"

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??? I have been there of course to select the image sequence generation, but where is the option to save the sequence as a single rocking image?
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Re: how to save a rocking set

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There is no option to save the sequence as a single rocking image.

Zerene Stacker only generates the off-axis views.

To assemble them into a rocking GIF, the images must be saved out of Zerene Stacker as JPEG or TIFF, then run through some other software to crop, resize, adjust levels and color balance, sharpen, and do all those other usual finishing operations, before finally saving the collection as some sort of looping image.

At https://zerenesystems.com/cms/stacker/docs/syntheticstereo , this is described as
Animated GIF images for rocking displays can be generated by programs such as Adobe’s ImageReady and the free GIMP software (http://www.gimp.org/). It can also be done with regular Adobe Photoshop, using Timeline animation as described at https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/make-animated-gif.html . Longer sequences can be generated as looping movies, by programs such as Apple’s QuickTime Player Pro (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/, for Macintosh or Windows).
I see that I need to update that description. QuickTime Player Pro seems to be no longer available, even for Mac.

These days I generally use the Timeline animation in Photoshop and then File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy).

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Re: how to save a rocking set

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I use Photoshop also...sorry that I misunderstood your question.

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Re: how to save a rocking set

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Thanks, that clarifies it.

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