Hello everyone, first time posting. I tried to do a search, but couldn't find anything that seemed to really fit with my current situation (totally possible I just was looking with the wrong keywords).
For reference: I am currently using Sony Movie Studio 13 to make the video and GIMP to do my image manipulation.
So anyway, I am trying to create a video using static comic book images. The idea I have in my head is to zoom in on and pan the camera between the sequential panels while simultaneously populating text into empty dialog boxes to simulate a dynamic conversation.
I have the original pages scanned as PNGs and then a second set of the same images with the dialog removed. I was originally thinking that there may be a way to overlay the two images with the original in the back and the edited one on top and then gradually allow the background image to "bleed" through into the foreground in a piecemeal fashion to "fill" the dialog bubbles, but I am not sure if that's really possible or, if it is, easily accomplished.
I have already thought of two ways that I know would get the desired effect:
1) Start with the unedited images and add multiple white box layers to cover the existing text and then adjust the opacity for each of the "covers" as needed to reveal the text. Or...
2) Start with the edited images and then use the text options in Movie Studio to just rewrite the dialog into the boxes as needed.
However, both of these methods are extremely time consuming and would probably drive me nuts before I even get close to finishing the project so I was hoping that maybe someone out there would have a more elegant solution.
I am pretty noobish when it comes to video editing, but I am trying to learn tricks here and there.
If there is any tool already available that will allow me to "easily" achieve my desired effect please let me know. Thanks in advance!
For reference: I am currently using Sony Movie Studio 13 to make the video and GIMP to do my image manipulation.
So anyway, I am trying to create a video using static comic book images. The idea I have in my head is to zoom in on and pan the camera between the sequential panels while simultaneously populating text into empty dialog boxes to simulate a dynamic conversation.
I have the original pages scanned as PNGs and then a second set of the same images with the dialog removed. I was originally thinking that there may be a way to overlay the two images with the original in the back and the edited one on top and then gradually allow the background image to "bleed" through into the foreground in a piecemeal fashion to "fill" the dialog bubbles, but I am not sure if that's really possible or, if it is, easily accomplished.
I have already thought of two ways that I know would get the desired effect:
1) Start with the unedited images and add multiple white box layers to cover the existing text and then adjust the opacity for each of the "covers" as needed to reveal the text. Or...
2) Start with the edited images and then use the text options in Movie Studio to just rewrite the dialog into the boxes as needed.
However, both of these methods are extremely time consuming and would probably drive me nuts before I even get close to finishing the project so I was hoping that maybe someone out there would have a more elegant solution.
I am pretty noobish when it comes to video editing, but I am trying to learn tricks here and there.
If there is any tool already available that will allow me to "easily" achieve my desired effect please let me know. Thanks in advance!