Use Photoshop to prepare your artwork, using its Animation palette to define
the visibility of each layer on a frame-by-frame basis (that's the most awkward
part, but a 100 frames won't take you that long to do).
Then export as animated GIF, drag into QC and use the Image Importer's "Extract
All Images" option to produce a structure filled with each frame in the right
order.
I used this technique to turn a 30 page PPT into a simple QTZ without too much
hassle not too long ago.
Downsides:
- 256 colour GIF palette
- Not very efficient: a full-screen GIF with 100 frames will use a lot
of resources!
Hope this helps.
Ade.
On 6 Aug 2013, at 11:20, Alastair Leith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi list
>
> I'm looking for a way to get an image structure into QC. But I don't want to
> use a multipage application to get it in. I already can use a PDF and the
> stock patch or Kineme's superior PDF Render patch to bring a multipage PDF
> into QC and extract an image.
>
> Would be great if the Image Importer patch could separate layers in a
> Photoshop, Illustrator, Tiff, single page PDF file but it can't I just tried.
> If Apple gave a toss about QC I'd make that as a feature request, but
> yeah…crickets.
>
> I want to be able to separate an image with 100s of marker symbols on a map.
> (I can write a Javascript to do that in AI or PS). Then have that import so
> that each layer comes in at the same dimension of the whole map but I can
> discretely switch each layer on and off in a iterator. That way I can switch
> on layer 2,3,4,… at intervals of one or two seconds and then speed up
> logarithmically until I'm switching them on at 10 Hz or whatever.... as in:
> plop, plop, plop, plp ,pl , pp , ppp, pppp ,pppppppp…
>
>
> Any ideas. I suppose it would be possible to place a multilayered AI file
> with 100+ layers in ID. Duplicate the page 100+ times then write a Javascript
> to edit the layer visibility options of each placed file on each page but I
> really can't be arsed with attempting that, too ugly... not sure scripting
> can even access layer options in placed files.
>
>
> The other thing that occurred to me is using some kind of 3D file format
> which I can break into discrete graphical elements inside QC and still keep
> there (X,Y) position or even animate it but I don't have much 3D experience…
>
> Another idea is to write a script to suck the X,Y data out of Illustrator
> file into a CSV then use iterator or Kineme GL Family patches to draw
> multiple instances using the X,Y data. But i just want an easy way please :-)
>
> Best
> Alastair
>
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