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Dev:Building On Mac OS X

2007-11-04T00:25:38Z

Ulrik: /* problem building "doxygen" via jhbuild */

There is currently no up-to-date build of Synfig for Mac OS X.

== Build environment ==

Since these instructions assume one is using MacPorts, make sure the following environment variables are set accordingly:

<pre><nowiki>
export PATH="/opt/local/bin:$PATH"
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /opt/local/share/aclocal"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig"
</nowiki></pre>

There seem to be two ways of building GTK applications for OS X:

== Using the native GTK port ==

In order to build Synfig natively on Mac OS X using the native GTK port (as opposed to using X11), you will require the following:

* Mac OS X developer tools (i.e. [http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/ XCode])
* git ("git-core" port on macports)
* subversion ("subversion" port on macports)
* jhbuild
* libxml++
* [http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx Imendio's GTK port]'s ".jhbuildrc" file
* Subversion checkout of "etl", "synfig-core", and "synfig-studio"

=== Boot strapping ===

First of all make sure you have a Terminal window open. This will be used in order to perform all the steps necessary to compile synfig.

You might also want to compile as a different user, as one tool used, "jhbuild", requires files to be placed in the current user's home directory. This can be done by typing the following into the terminal:

<pre><nowiki>
su <other username>
<type in other username's password>
</nowiki></pre>

I shall assume you only have XCode and MacPorts installed. In order to get subversion and git, you should be able to type the following into the terminal:

<pre><nowiki>
sudo port install git-core
sudo port install subversion
</nowiki></pre>

Assuming MacPorts installed subversion and git correctly, you'll now need to grab and compile a copy of jhbuild from the gnome repository, which can be done like so:

<pre><nowiki>
svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/jhbuild/trunk jhbuild
cd jhbuild && make -f Makefile.plain install
</nowiki></pre>

You will also need the .jhbuildrc file from Imendio. It is also a good idea to ensure your PATH contains your "~/bin" directory and "/opt/gtk/bin", the latter being important when you start to build everything else. Finally, make sure that "/opt/gtk/" exists and is owned by your build user:

<pre><nowiki>
curl http://developer.imendio.com/svn/gtk-osx-build/jhbuildrc-gtk-osx > ~/.jhbuildrc
export PATH="/opt/gtk/bin:~/bin:$PATH"
sudo mkdir -p /opt/gtk && sudo chown <username>:<username> /opt/gtk
</nowiki></pre>

Now you can type in the following to build the bootstrap environment:

<pre><nowiki>
jhbuild bootstrap
</nowiki></pre>

=== Compiling GTK and other dependencies ===

Assuming jhbuild has finished building all of the bootstrap lib's and such, you will not have to tell it to build "gtkmm", which is the C++ interface to GTK.

<pre><nowiki>
jhbuild build gtkmm
</nowiki></pre>

This will also build GTK and all of its dependencies. However it falls short of providing another dependency which Synfig requires, which is libxml++. This can be grabbed and built as follows:

<pre><nowiki>
curl -L http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxml++/2.19/libxml++-2.19.2.tar.gz > libxml++-2.19.2.tar.gz
tar -xzf libxml++-2.19.2.tar.gz
cd libxml++-2.19.2 && ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk && make && sudo make install
</nowiki></pre>

Optionally you might also want to grab and build [http://www.openexr.com/ OpenEXR]. This should of course be a simple configure, make, make install job like libxml++.

=== Synfig itself ===

You should now be able to follow the [[Build instructions]] to compile ETL, synfig-core, and synfig-studio. The only thing different you should do is add "--prefix=/opt/gtk --exec-prefix=/opt/gtk" to the "./configure" options when building each package.

Assuming you manage to build it correctly, you should now be able to type the following in order for Synfig to pop up on your desktop:

<pre><nowiki>
synfigstudio
</nowiki></pre>

Note though that this isn't the end of the story: we still need to package everything up into an .app so that the more sane of us can run Synfig without having to resort to opening a terminal.

'''TODO''': Describe how to properly package everything into an .app.

=== Issues ===

There are currently numerous issues with Synfig with Imendio's GTK port. Watch out for:

* <strike>Window focus can sometimes be lost. If this happens, just select a window from another Mac OS X app and then select the Synfig window again.</strike>
* <strike>Menus do not function correctly.</strike>
* <strike>The file browser doesn't work, so you have to load files from startup.</strike>
* Sometimes mouse focus on windows is lost. To solve this, try moving the affected window. Failing that, you should still be able to use the keyboard to navigate.
* No input devices are enumerated by GTK.
* XCode project files exist, but they are currently broken. Thus we just use the terminal to compile everything.
* Because we made the prefix "/opt/gtk", synfig will go looking for interface images there, which obviously won't quite work right if we want to package everything into an .app.

[[Image:Picture1kd1.jpg|Obligatory screen shot]]

== Using X11 ==

In order to compile synfig for X11, you will need to install gtkmm and libxml++ via MacPorts (or Fink). This can be done as follows:

<pre><nowiki>
sudo port install gtkmm libxmlxx2
</nowiki></pre>

This will also install all the other dependencies (such as X11), so it make take some time to compile.

You need to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH so that the ETL and synfig-core header files and libraries can be found:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig

For some unknown reason compiling ETL, synfig-core and synfig-studio doesn't work properly when using MacPorts auto* tools. However, it does work with the bootstrap toolset used to compile Imendio's native GTK port. So it is suggested that you follow the [[Building_On_Mac_OS_X#Boot_strapping|Boot strapping]] section up to and including the 'jhbuild bootstrap' line and make sure "/opt/gtk/bin" is first in your $PATH in order to properly compile etl, synfig-core and synfig-studio.

You should now be able to follow the [[Build instructions]] to compile ETL, synfig-core, and synfig-studio. The only thing different you should do is add "--prefix=/opt/local --exec-prefix=/opt/local" to the "./configure" options when building each package.

Assuming you manage to build it correctly, you should now be able to type the following in order for Synfig to pop up on your desktop:

<pre><nowiki>
synfigstudio
</nowiki></pre>

Note though that this isn't the end of the story: we still need to package everything up into an .app so that the more sane of us can run Synfig without having to resort to opening a terminal.

'''TODO''': Describe how to properly package everything into an .app.

== Troubleshooting ==

=== no "awk" ===

If you get an error during building MacPorts ports complaining that a program called "awk" cannot be found, then you should install the 'gawk' port like so:

<pre><nowiki>
sudo port install gawk
</nowiki></pre>

=== "no command found" when running jhbuild ===

When using jhbuild, you might get an error back like this:

<pre><nowiki>
$ jhbuild glibmm
jhbuild glibmm: no command found
</nowiki></pre>

This is because you need to specify the "build" command when building a package, like so:

<pre><nowiki>
jhbuild build glibmm
</nowiki></pre>

=== problem building "doxygen" via jhbuild ===

When building doxygen, you may get an error during the build process mentioning "lipo" failed to find a file. To fix this, you should go into the shell (option 4) when prompted, and enter the following:

<pre><nowiki>
./configure --prefix /opt/gtk --platform macosx-c++ --install /usr/bin/install
make && exit
</nowiki>
</pre>

Then when prompted again, choose "ignore error and continue to build" (option 2).

=== other problems building via jhbuild ===

Solving other issues with building packages in jhbuild is beyond the scope of this document as all of the packages are still under development by their respective authors.

DemoReel

2007-10-30T09:29:46Z

Ulrik: /* Other thoughts */

=== Goal ===
Produce a demo reel for display on Youtube, revver, etc to showcase the capabilities of Synfig, and generate interest in the community of artists and coders to use and improve Synfig. Ideally the whole video could be produced in Synfig (excluding audio).

=== Proposed screenplay ===
Unless otherwise stated the source is from the Synfig examples. There seems to be a recurring theme of 'eyes' here, so the tentative working title is 'The Eye's have it'.

==== Introduction ====
Open with
* handwritten 'synfig' by dooglus ([http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=djk4B_GiN-Q&NR=1 YouTube] | [[Media:Handwriting.sifz|sifz]])

then an animated figure synched to some speech - "Welcome to the Synfig Demo Reel" (I have something in the works for this one)

Either - Cover the basics - shapes, lines, filters, distortions, transforms, etc, or just launch straight into a slide show of still images

==== Stills ====

* Gradients.sif
* wallpaper/backdrop.sif
Some combination of zooming in and out on the eyes of the following to demonstrate that Synfig is vector based and looks good at any resolution:-
* Rore's Cat
* Tux
* prologuekid.sif
* pirate.sif
* Macwolfen.sif
* New Julia/newjulia2.sif

Transition to -

==== Animations ====
* mandelbrot.sif
* cells.sif
* noise.sif
* z_depth test.sif
* warpcube.sif
* Preamble taffy.sif
* Rotating gears by dooglus http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ljmQARJccYk
* underwater by Ulrik http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j7fO-1V_IFA
* plant growing by Ulrik http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UqeUOrAoziE
* room by Ulrik http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxj9NenDTE
* eye.sif http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nAYdf-CJwPo
* Eyes (by Madsen - he already gave us permission to use it in a demo reel)
* Synfig trailer by StephanMorin http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7q2jN3qcOcM
* Sy'n'fig by Zelig
* boot.sif by pxegeek - Call to action help stamp out bugs in Synfig

* Credits
* links to Prologue, Werewolf

==== Other thoughts ====
Need clearance from the copyright holders for the use of these works. Please comment if it's OK or if you don't want your work used.
: It's OK to use any of my animations -- [[User:Dooglus|dooglus]] 04:12, 30 October 2007 (EDT)
: It's ok to use any of my animations and music at my site http://www.musikboden.se/mymusic/mymusic.html [[User:Ulrik|ulrik]] 05:29, 30 October 2007 (EDT)
Music? If some of the more musical amongst us are willing to share their music -
* Madsen has some funky music that I can't begin to describe, and some nice electronic stuff also (e.g. http://laxness101.lillesvin.net/strg/lax-Lay.mp3).
* Ulrik has some accordian music that may not be to everyone's taste ;) and some great piano music at http://www.musikboden.se/mymusic/solopiano/solopiano.html (yes, I'm biased - I only try to play piano).
* If we want to go up tempo, Ceox has some nice synth music that I think would work well. (Oxysphere?)

What did I miss?

DemoReel

2007-10-30T09:28:44Z

Ulrik: /* Other thoughts */

=== Goal ===
Produce a demo reel for display on Youtube, revver, etc to showcase the capabilities of Synfig, and generate interest in the community of artists and coders to use and improve Synfig. Ideally the whole video could be produced in Synfig (excluding audio).

=== Proposed screenplay ===
Unless otherwise stated the source is from the Synfig examples. There seems to be a recurring theme of 'eyes' here, so the tentative working title is 'The Eye's have it'.

==== Introduction ====
Open with
* handwritten 'synfig' by dooglus ([http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=djk4B_GiN-Q&NR=1 YouTube] | [[Media:Handwriting.sifz|sifz]])

then an animated figure synched to some speech - "Welcome to the Synfig Demo Reel" (I have something in the works for this one)

Either - Cover the basics - shapes, lines, filters, distortions, transforms, etc, or just launch straight into a slide show of still images

==== Stills ====

* Gradients.sif
* wallpaper/backdrop.sif
Some combination of zooming in and out on the eyes of the following to demonstrate that Synfig is vector based and looks good at any resolution:-
* Rore's Cat
* Tux
* prologuekid.sif
* pirate.sif
* Macwolfen.sif
* New Julia/newjulia2.sif

Transition to -

==== Animations ====
* mandelbrot.sif
* cells.sif
* noise.sif
* z_depth test.sif
* warpcube.sif
* Preamble taffy.sif
* Rotating gears by dooglus http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ljmQARJccYk
* underwater by Ulrik http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j7fO-1V_IFA
* plant growing by Ulrik http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UqeUOrAoziE
* room by Ulrik http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxj9NenDTE
* eye.sif http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nAYdf-CJwPo
* Eyes (by Madsen - he already gave us permission to use it in a demo reel)
* Synfig trailer by StephanMorin http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7q2jN3qcOcM
* Sy'n'fig by Zelig
* boot.sif by pxegeek - Call to action help stamp out bugs in Synfig

* Credits
* links to Prologue, Werewolf

==== Other thoughts ====
Need clearance from the copyright holders for the use of these works. Please comment if it's OK or if you don't want your work used.
: It's OK to use any of my animations -- [[User:Dooglus|dooglus]] 04:12, 30 October 2007 (EDT)
: It's ok to use any of my animations and music at my site http://www.musikboden.se/mymusic/mymusic.html ----
Music? If some of the more musical amongst us are willing to share their music -
* Madsen has some funky music that I can't begin to describe, and some nice electronic stuff also (e.g. http://laxness101.lillesvin.net/strg/lax-Lay.mp3).
* Ulrik has some accordian music that may not be to everyone's taste ;) and some great piano music at http://www.musikboden.se/mymusic/solopiano/solopiano.html (yes, I'm biased - I only try to play piano).
* If we want to go up tempo, Ceox has some nice synth music that I think would work well. (Oxysphere?)

What did I miss?

DemoReel

2007-10-30T08:38:26Z

Ulrik: /* Other thoughts */

=== Goal ===
Produce a demo reel for display on Youtube, revver, etc to showcase the capabilities of Synfig, and generate interest in the community of artists and coders to use and improve Synfig. Ideally the whole video could be produced in Synfig (excluding audio).

=== Proposed screenplay ===
Unless otherwise stated the source is from the Synfig examples. There seems to be a recurring theme of 'eyes' here, so the tentative working title is 'The Eye's have it'.

==== Introduction ====
Open with
* handwritten 'synfig' by dooglus http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=djk4B_GiN-Q&NR=1 <br>
then an animated figure synched to some speech - "Welcome to the Synfig Demo Reel" (I have something in the works for this one)

Either - Cover the basics - shapes, lines, filters, distortions, transforms, etc, or just launch straight into a slide show of still images

==== Stills ====

* Gradients.sif
* wallpaper/backdrop.sif
Some combination of zooming in and out on the eyes of the following to demonstrate that Synfig is vector based and looks good at any resolution:-
* Rore's Cat
* Tux
* prologuekid.sif
* pirate.sif
* Macwolfen.sif
* New Julia/newjulia2.sif

Transition to -

==== Animations ====
* mandelbrot.sif
* cells.sif
* noise.sif
* z_depth test.sif
* warpcube.sif
* Preamble taffy.sif
* Rotating gears by dooglus http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ljmQARJccYk
* underwater by Ulrik http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j7fO-1V_IFA
* plant growing by Ulrik http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UqeUOrAoziE
* room by Ulrik http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxj9NenDTE
* eye.sif http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nAYdf-CJwPo
* Eyes (by Madsen - he already gave us permission to use it in a demo reel)
* Synfig trailer by StephanMorin http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7q2jN3qcOcM
* Sy'n'fig by Zelig
* boot.sif by pxegeek - Call to action help stamp out bugs in Synfig

* Credits
* links to Prologue, Werewolf

==== Other thoughts ====
Need clearance from the copyright holders for the use of these works. Please comment if it's OK or if you don't want your work used.
: It's OK to use any of my animations -- [[User:Dooglus|dooglus]] 04:12, 30 October 2007 (EDT)
: It's ok to use any of my animations and music at my site http://www.musikboden.se/mymusic/mymusic.html -- [[User:Ulrik]]
Music? If some of the more musical amongst us are willing to share their music -
* Madsen has some funky music that I can't begin to describe, and some nice electronic stuff also (e.g. http://laxness101.lillesvin.net/strg/lax-Lay.mp3).
* Ulrik has some accordian music that may not be to everyone's taste ;) and some great piano music at http://www.musikboden.se/mymusic/solopiano/solopiano.html (yes, I'm biased - I only try to play piano).
* If we want to go up tempo, Ceox has some nice synth music that I think would work well. (Oxysphere?)

What did I miss?

Render options

2007-10-24T20:56:15Z

Ulrik:

Here are the file types that can be rendered

*bmp - Bitmap
*dv - digital video
*mpg - Motion Picture Expert Group file format for moving pictures
*gif - graphic interchange format
*imagemagick - image manipulation program
*jpeg - Joint Photographic Expert Group - still format suited to photographs
*libav - libavcodec is a free software/open source LGPL-licensed library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data; it is written in the C programming language. It is part of the FFmpeg-project and many free/open source applications rely on it.
*null - Dummy file for rendering engine testing?
*null-tile - Dummy file for rendering engine testing?
*open-exr - Still image designed for handling Motion picture frames developed by ILM
*png - portable Network graphics - still images with lossless compression
*ppm - portable pixmap - still image using very basic format
*yuv420p - Still image format designed to preserve the images luminance

{| border="1"
|-
! Target type
! Extension
! Helper app
! width = "180"|
Linux support
! width = "180"|
Windows support
! width = "180"|
Mac OSX support
|-
! Auto
! align = "left" |
*.bmp->bmp
*.dv->dv_trgt
*.mpg->ffmpeg_trg
*.gif->gif
*.miff->imagemagick_trgt
*.jpg->jpeg_trgt
*.avi->Target_LibAVCodec
*.mng->mng_trgt
*.exr->exr_trgt
*.png->png_trgt
*.ppm->ppm
*.yuv->yuv
! Determined by extension
(if you're lucky!)
! align = "left" width = "180"|
*.bmp->bmp OK
*.dv->dv OK
*.mpg->not render [[#note 3|3]]
*.gif->gif OK
*.miff->OK (only last frame?)
*.jpg->jpg OK
*.avi->crash [[#note 1|1]]
*.mng-> not render [[#note 6|6]]
*.exr->exr OK
*.png->png OK
*.ppm->ppm OK
*.yuv->yuv OK? [[#note 5|5]]
! width = "180"|
Seems to generate a bmp (or series of bmps) regardless of extension.
! align = "left" width = "180"|
*.bmp-ok, but text layers upside down
*.dv-crash synfig
*.mpg-crash synfig
*.gif-ok, also animated gif
*.miff-crash synfig
*.jpg-ok
*.avi-crash synfig
*.mng-"unable to create target for...
*.mov-"unable to create target for...
*.exr-"unable to create target for...
*.png-ok
*.ppm-ok
*yuv-render a file in unknown format
|-
! bmp
! bmp
! Native
! ?
! Yes
! bmp-ok, but text layers upside down
|-
! dv
! dv
! encodedv
! ?
! untested
! .dv-crash synfig
|-
! ffmpeg
! mpg
! ffmpeg
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
Working with FFMpeg 10464 and SVN 934
! width = "180"|
.mpg-crash synfig
|-
! gif
! gif
! native
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
yes (animated gifs also)
! width = "180"|
.gif-ok
|-
! imagemagick
! miff
! imagemagick
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
Renders to a readable file, but the image is corrupted in builds prior to SVN 934. Working in 934 and later (October 17th 2007).
! width = "180"|
.miff-crash synfig
|-
! jpeg
! jpg
! native
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
yes
! width = "180"|
.jpg-ok
|-
! null
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
|-
! null-tile
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
|-
! open-exr
! exr
! native
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
yes
! width = "180"|
n/a
|-
! png
! png
! native*.mpg->
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
yes
! width = "180"|
.png-ok
|-
! ppm
! ppm
! native
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
yes
! width = "180"|
.ppm-ok
|-
! yuv420
! yuv
! native
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
yes
! width = "180"|
.yuv-render file in unknown format
|}

=== Rendering to Video ===
Rendering to video directly from Synfig under Windows presents some challenges.

If you want to render to anything other than mpg with ffmpeg, you'll want to save a series of images that represent your animation, to a still format that ffmpeg can read. I recommend png. Whilst you can render to any size image, if you're going to show your video on Youtube*.mpg->, you may want to take that into account when you render.

If you set up your render like [[Image:Render.png]]

Image size -
width 320 Xres 72.0 Phys width 4.44
Height 240 Yres 72.0 Phys Height 3.33
(Image span 11.0127

Image area
Top left X: -3.67 Y:4.2
Bottom right X: 3.67 y:-4.2)

You will get a series of png files in your output directory. Open a command prompt, cd to that directory, then use ffmpeg to assemble these png files into the video stream of your choice. for example -

C:\output>ffmpeg -r 15 -i rfrac%04d.png -f flv fractal.flv

creates a Flash video file of with the same framerate as used on Youtube. You should be able to submit it to Youtube without the need for the Youtube servers to have to re-compress it.

=== Linux notes ===

==== note 1 ====
The extension is recognized but it crashed. Please report if it renders in your machine (Using Ubuntu 6.10 and svn 945). The console output is this:
<code> synfig(5882): info: render target filename: '/home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/avi-auto/RenderTest.avi'; extension: 'avi'
synfig(5882): info: 'avi' is a known extension - using target 'libav' Output #0, avi, to '/home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/avi-auto/RenderTest.avi':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4 (hq), yuv420p, 480x270, q=2-31, 925 kb/s, 24.00 fps(c)
Fallo de segmentación (core dumped)</code>

==== note 3 ====

The extension is recognized but it shows this pop-up window message: ''Target initialisation failure''. Please report if it renders in your machine (Using Ubuntu 6.10 and svn 945). The console output is this:

<code>
synfig(6303): info: render target filename: '/home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/mpg-auto/RenderTest.mpg'; extension: 'mpg'
synfig(6303): info: 'mpg' is a known extension - using target 'ffmpeg'
synfig(6303): error: Unable to open pipe to ffmpeg
</code>

==== note 5 ====

The yuv file is rendered but it seems to have a not compatible format. See the console output when try to convert to a avi using ffmepg.

<code>
ffmpeg -i RenderTest.yuv -sameq RenderTest.avi
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr
libavutil version: 0d.49.0.0
libavcodec version: 0d.51.11.0
libavformat version: 0d.50.5.0
built on Sep 20 2006 00:26:15, gcc: 4.1.2 20060906 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu2)
picture size invalid (0x0)
[rawvideo @ 0xb7f47c30]Could not find codec parameters (Video: rawvideo, yuv420p)
RenderTest.yuv: could not find codec parameters
</code>

==== note 6 ====

The extension is recognized but it shows this pop-up window message: ''Unable to create target for /home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/mng-auto/RenderTest.mng''. Please report if it renders in your machine (Using Ubuntu 6.10 and svn 945)

Render options

2007-10-24T20:46:24Z

Ulrik: osx render results

Here are the file types that can be rendered

*bmp - Bitmap
*dv - digital video
*mpg - Motion Picture Expert Group file format for moving pictures
*gif - graphic interchange format
*imagemagick - image manipulation program
*jpeg - Joint Photographic Expert Group - still format suited to photographs
*libav - libavcodec is a free software/open source LGPL-licensed library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data; it is written in the C programming language. It is part of the FFmpeg-project and many free/open source applications rely on it.
*null - Dummy file for rendering engine testing?
*null-tile - Dummy file for rendering engine testing?
*open-exr - Still image designed for handling Motion picture frames developed by ILM
*png - portable Network graphics - still images with lossless compression
*ppm - portable pixmap - still image using very basic format
*yuv420p - Still image format designed to preserve the images luminance

{| border="1"
|-
! Target type
! Extension
! Helper app
! width = "180"|
Linux support
! width = "180"|
Windows support
! width = "180"|
Mac OSX support
|-
! Auto
! align = "left" |
*.bmp->bmp
*.dv->dv_trgt
*.mpg->ffmpeg_trg
*.gif->gif
*.miff->imagemagick_trgt
*.jpg->jpeg_trgt
*.avi->Target_LibAVCodec
*.mng->mng_trgt
*.exr->exr_trgt
*.png->png_trgt
*.ppm->ppm
*.yuv->yuv
! Determined by extension
(if you're lucky!)
! align = "left" width = "180"|
*.bmp->bmp OK
*.dv->not render [[#note 2|2]]
*.mpg->not render [[#note 3|3]]
*.gif->gif OK
*.miff->crash [[#note 4|4]]
*.jpg->jpg OK
*.avi->crash [[#note 1|1]]
*.mng-> not render [[#note 6|6]]
*.exr->exr OK
*.png->png OK
*.ppm->ppm OK
*.yuv->yuv OK? [[#note 5|5]]
! width = "180"|
Seems to generate a bmp (or series of bmps) regardless of extension.
! width = "180"|
*.bmp-ok, but text layers upside down
*.dv-crash synfig
*.mpg-crash synfig
*.gif-ok, also animated gif
*.miff-crash synfig
*.jpg-ok
*.avi-crash synfig
*.mng-"unable to create target for...
*.mov-"unable to create target for...
*.exr-"unable to create target for...
*.png-ok
*.ppm-ok
*yuv-render a file in unknown format
|-
! bmp
! bmp
! Native
! ?
! Yes
! bmp-ok, but text layers upside down
|-
! dv
! dv
! encodedv
! ?
! untested
! .dv-crash synfig
|-
! ffmpeg
! mpg
! ffmpeg
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
Working with FFMpeg 10464 and SVN 934
! width = "180"|
.mpg-crash synfig
|-
! gif
! gif
! native
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
yes (animated gifs also)
! width = "180"|
.gif-ok
|-
! imagemagick
! miff
! imagemagick
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
Renders to a readable file, but the image is corrupted in builds prior to SVN 934. Working in 934 and later (October 17th 2007).
! width = "180"|
.miff-crash synfig
|-
! jpeg
! jpg
! native
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
yes
! width = "180"|
.jpg-ok
|-
! null
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
|-
! null-tile
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
|-
! open-exr
! exr
! native
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
yes
! width = "180"|
n/a
|-
! png
! png
! native*.mpg->
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
yes
! width = "180"|
.png-ok
|-
! ppm
! ppm
! native
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
yes
! width = "180"|
.ppm-ok
|-
! yuv420
! yuv
! native
! width = "180"|
?
! width = "180"|
yes
! width = "180"|
.yuv-render file in unknown format
|}

=== Rendering to Video ===
Rendering to video directly from Synfig under Windows presents some challenges.

If you want to render to anything other than mpg with ffmpeg, you'll want to save a series of images that represent your animation, to a still format that ffmpeg can read. I recommend png. Whilst you can render to any size image, if you're going to show your video on Youtube*.mpg->, you may want to take that into account when you render.

If you set up your render like [[Image:Render.png]]

Image size -
width 320 Xres 72.0 Phys width 4.44
Height 240 Yres 72.0 Phys Height 3.33
(Image span 11.0127

Image area
Top left X: -3.67 Y:4.2
Bottom right X: 3.67 y:-4.2)

You will get a series of png files in your output directory. Open a command prompt, cd to that directory, then use ffmpeg to assemble these png files into the video stream of your choice. for example -

C:\output>ffmpeg -r 15 -i rfrac%04d.png -f flv fractal.flv

creates a Flash video file of with the same framerate as used on Youtube. You should be able to submit it to Youtube without the need for the Youtube servers to have to re-compress it.

=== Linux notes ===

==== note 1 ====
The extension is recognized but it crashed. Please report if it renders in your machine (Using Ubuntu 6.10 and svn 945). The console output is this:
<code> synfig(5882): info: render target filename: '/home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/avi-auto/RenderTest.avi'; extension: 'avi'
synfig(5882): info: 'avi' is a known extension - using target 'libav' Output #0, avi, to '/home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/avi-auto/RenderTest.avi':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4 (hq), yuv420p, 480x270, q=2-31, 925 kb/s, 24.00 fps(c)
Fallo de segmentación (core dumped)</code>

==== note 2 ====

The extension is recognized but it shows this pop-up window message: ''Target initialisation failure''. Please report if it renders in your machine (Using Ubuntu 6.10 and svn 945). The console output is this:

<code>
synfig(6303): info: render target filename: '/home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/dv-auto/RenderTest.dv'; extension: 'dv'
synfig(6303): info: 'dv' is a known extension - using target 'dv'
synfig(6303): error: Unable to open pipe to encodedv
</code>

==== note 3 ====

The extension is recognized but it shows this pop-up window message: ''Target initialisation failure''. Please report if it renders in your machine (Using Ubuntu 6.10 and svn 945). The console output is this:

<code>
synfig(6303): info: render target filename: '/home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/mpg-auto/RenderTest.mpg'; extension: 'mpg'
synfig(6303): info: 'mpg' is a known extension - using target 'ffmpeg'
synfig(6303): error: Unable to open pipe to ffmpeg
</code>

==== note 4 ====

The extension is recognized but it crashed. Please report if it renders in your machine (Using Ubuntu 6.10 and svn 945). The console output is this:

<code>
synfig(6303): info: render target filename: '/home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/miff-auto/RenderTest.miff'; extension: 'miff'
synfig(6303): info: 'miff' is a known extension - using target 'imagemagick'
synfig(6303): error: Unable to open pipe to imagemagick's convert utility

glibmm-ERROR **:
unhandled exception (type unknown) in signal handler

aborting...
Cancelado (core dumped)
</code>

==== note 5 ====

The yuv file is rendered but it seems to have a not compatible format. See the console output when try to convert to a avi using ffmepg.

<code>
ffmpeg -i RenderTest.yuv -sameq RenderTest.avi
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr
libavutil version: 0d.49.0.0
libavcodec version: 0d.51.11.0
libavformat version: 0d.50.5.0
built on Sep 20 2006 00:26:15, gcc: 4.1.2 20060906 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu2)
picture size invalid (0x0)
[rawvideo @ 0xb7f47c30]Could not find codec parameters (Video: rawvideo, yuv420p)
RenderTest.yuv: could not find codec parameters
</code>

==== note 6 ====

The extension is recognized but it shows this pop-up window message: ''Unable to create target for /home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/mng-auto/RenderTest.mng''. Please report if it renders in your machine (Using Ubuntu 6.10 and svn 945)

User talk:Ulrik

2007-10-24T13:53:45Z

Ulrik: New page: i'm trying to fit in the rendering support for mac osx, I've test rendered all formats in auto and with target, but i don't know how to edit the wiki.....

i'm trying to fit in the rendering support for mac osx, I've test rendered all formats in auto and with target, but i don't know how to edit the wiki.....

Render options

2007-10-24T13:46:26Z

Ulrik:

Here are the file types that can be rendered

*bmp - Bitmap
*dv - digital video
*mpg - Motion Picture Expert Group file format for moving pictures
*gif - graphic interchange format
*imagemagick - image manipulation program
*jpeg - Joint Photographic Expert Group - still format suited to photographs
*libav - libavcodec is a free software/open source LGPL-licensed library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data; it is written in the C programming language. It is part of the FFmpeg-project and many free/open source applications rely on it.
*null - Dummy file for rendering engine testing?
*null-tile - Dummy file for rendering engine testing?
*open-exr - Still image designed for handling Motion picture frames developed by ILM
*png - portable Network graphics - still images with lossless compression
*ppm - portable pixmap - still image using very basic format
*yuv420p - Still image format designed to preserve the images luminance

{| border="1"
|-
! Target type
! Extension
! Helper app
! width = "250"|
Linux support
! Windows support
! Mac OSX support
|-
! Auto
! align = "left" |
*.bmp->bmp
*.dv->dv_trgt
*.mpg->ffmpeg_trg
*.gif->gif
*.miff->imagemagick_trgt
*.jpg->jpeg_trgt
*.avi->Target_LibAVCodec
*.mng->mng_trgt
*.exr->exr_trgt
*.png->png_trgt
*.ppm->ppm
*.yuv->yuv
! Determined by extension (if you're lucky!)
! align = "left" |
*.bmp->bmp OK
*.dv->not render [[#note 2|2]]
*.mpg->not render [[#note 3|3]]
*.gif->gif OK
*.miff->crash [[#note 4|4]]
*.jpg->jpg OK
*.avi->crash [[#note 1|1]]
*.mng-> not render [[#note 6|6]]
*.exr->exr OK
*.png->png OK
*.ppm->ppm OK
*.yuv->yuv OK? [[#note 5|5]]
! Seems to generate a bmp (or series of bmps) regardless of extension.
|-
! bmp
! bmp
! Native
! ?
! Yes
|-
! dv
! dv
! encodedv
! ?
! untested
|-
! ffmpeg
! mpg
! ffmpeg
! ?
! Working with FFMpeg 10464 and SVN 934
|-
! gif
! gif
! native
! ?
! yes (animated gifs also)
|-
! imagemagick
! miff
! imagemagick
! ?
! Renders to a readable file, but the image is corrupted in builds prior to SVN 934. Working in 934 and later (October 17th 2007).
|-
! jpeg
! jpg
! native
! ?
! yes
|-
! null
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
|-
! null-tile
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
! n/a
|-
! open-exr
! exr
! native
! ?
! yes
|-
! png
! png
! native*.mpg->
! ?
! yes
|-
! ppm
! ppm
! native
! ?
! yes
|-
! yuv420
! yuv
! native
! ?
! yes
|}

=== Rendering to Video ===
Rendering to video directly from Synfig under Windows presents some challenges.

If you want to render to anything other than mpg with ffmpeg, you'll want to save a series of images that represent your animation, to a still format that ffmpeg can read. I recommend png. Whilst you can render to any size image, if you're going to show your video on Youtube*.mpg->, you may want to take that into account when you render.

If you set up your render like [[Image:Render.png]]

Image size -
width 320 Xres 72.0 Phys width 4.44
Height 240 Yres 72.0 Phys Height 3.33
(Image span 11.0127

Image area
Top left X: -3.67 Y:4.2
Bottom right X: 3.67 y:-4.2)

You will get a series of png files in your output directory. Open a command prompt, cd to that directory, then use ffmpeg to assemble these png files into the video stream of your choice. for example -

C:\output>ffmpeg -r 15 -i rfrac%04d.png -f flv fractal.flv

creates a Flash video file of with the same framerate as used on Youtube. You should be able to submit it to Youtube without the need for the Youtube servers to have to re-compress it.

=== Linux notes ===

==== note 1 ====
The extension is recognized but it crashed. Please report if it renders in your machine (Using Ubuntu 6.10 and svn 945). The console output is this:
<code> synfig(5882): info: render target filename: '/home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/avi-auto/RenderTest.avi'; extension: 'avi'
synfig(5882): info: 'avi' is a known extension - using target 'libav' Output #0, avi, to '/home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/avi-auto/RenderTest.avi':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4 (hq), yuv420p, 480x270, q=2-31, 925 kb/s, 24.00 fps(c)
Fallo de segmentación (core dumped)</code>

==== note 2 ====

The extension is recognized but it shows this pop-up window message: ''Target initialisation failure''. Please report if it renders in your machine (Using Ubuntu 6.10 and svn 945). The console output is this:

<code>
synfig(6303): info: render target filename: '/home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/dv-auto/RenderTest.dv'; extension: 'dv'
synfig(6303): info: 'dv' is a known extension - using target 'dv'
synfig(6303): error: Unable to open pipe to encodedv
</code>

==== note 3 ====

The extension is recognized but it shows this pop-up window message: ''Target initialisation failure''. Please report if it renders in your machine (Using Ubuntu 6.10 and svn 945). The console output is this:

<code>
synfig(6303): info: render target filename: '/home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/mpg-auto/RenderTest.mpg'; extension: 'mpg'
synfig(6303): info: 'mpg' is a known extension - using target 'ffmpeg'
synfig(6303): error: Unable to open pipe to ffmpeg
</code>

==== note 4 ====

The extension is recognized but it crashed. Please report if it renders in your machine (Using Ubuntu 6.10 and svn 945). The console output is this:

<code>
synfig(6303): info: render target filename: '/home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/miff-auto/RenderTest.miff'; extension: 'miff'
synfig(6303): info: 'miff' is a known extension - using target 'imagemagick'
synfig(6303): error: Unable to open pipe to imagemagick's convert utility

glibmm-ERROR **:
unhandled exception (type unknown) in signal handler

aborting...
Cancelado (core dumped)
</code>

==== note 5 ====

The yuv file is rendered but it seems to have a not compatible format. See the console output when try to convert to a avi using ffmepg.

<code>
ffmpeg -i RenderTest.yuv -sameq RenderTest.avi
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr
libavutil version: 0d.49.0.0
libavcodec version: 0d.51.11.0
libavformat version: 0d.50.5.0
built on Sep 20 2006 00:26:15, gcc: 4.1.2 20060906 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu2)
picture size invalid (0x0)
[rawvideo @ 0xb7f47c30]Could not find codec parameters (Video: rawvideo, yuv420p)
RenderTest.yuv: could not find codec parameters
</code>

==== note 6 ====

The extension is recognized but it shows this pop-up window message: ''Unable to create target for /home/carlos/Videos/pruebasynfig/RenderTest/mng-auto/RenderTest.mng''. Please report if it renders in your machine (Using Ubuntu 6.10 and svn 945)

Doc:Rescale Animations

2007-10-18T21:08:02Z

Ulrik: /* Introduction */

== Introduction ==

Rescale an animation means modify the initial and final times where a portion of animation is shown. Imagine that you have created a complex animation for cretain objects, but when you watch it with the rest of the backgrounds or other animated objects it seems to be "out of time" (too late, too soon, too slow or too quick). You would like to modify the animation smoothly from one time segment [A-B] to other [C-D]. But how?...

You could think on move the waypoints one by one and rescale the animation manually. Although it could be possible, most of the times it would be tedious and fruitless.

With synfig it will be easy to do.

== Encapsulate the layers ==

First of all you need to encapsulate the layers that are going to be rescaled in time. It is needed to make use of the [[Time Offset Parameter]] of the [[Paste Canvas]] layer.

== Understanding what are we rescaling ==

We want to rescale from [A-B] to [C-D]. So we want that when the original animation reach the A time then it would be reached at time C instead. Same apply to B and D. But if you move the animation in that way, what happened to frames before frame A that now are before C? and what happened to frames after B that are now after D?. They're rescaled too. Is that what we want?. In the most general case we would like the frames 0f to A' (A'<A) and B' to the end of the animation (B'>B) to be untouched.

There are some conditions that the rescaled time segment [A-B], the desired time segment [C-D] and the untouched segments [0f-A'] and [B'- end] must fulfil:

# Frame A must be smaller than frame B. Obviously
# Frame C must be smaller than D.
# Frame A' must be smaller than A
# Frame B' must be greater than B
# Frames C and D must be smaller than B' and bigger than A'

[[Image:RescaleDiagram.png]]
(this diagram was done in synfig :D)

== Using the Paste canvas ==

Once that we know what are rescaling then lets modify the animation to make those changes on it.

Go to the Paste canvas you have obtained in the first step and go to its [[Time Offset Parameter]]. You have to insert the following waypoints in the animation of that parameter:

# At frame A' insert a value of 0f. This will maintain this frame untouched (and the ones that are before also if there are no more waypoints there).
# At frame C insert the result of subtract from the time value at frame A the time value at frame C (that is C-A in time units). It could be positive or negative. In the sample diagram is negative and corresponds to -2s6f if the animation is at 24fps and we assume that each division in the diagram is a second.
# At frame D insert the result of subtract from the time value at frame B the time value at frame D (that is D-B in time units). It could be positive or negative. In the sample diagram is negative and corresponds to -18f if the animation is at 24 fps and we assume that each division in the diagram is a second.
# At frame B' insert a value of 0f. This will maintain this frame untouched (and the ones that are after also if there are no more waypoints there).

'''IMPORTANT''': all the inserted waypoints must have linear interpolation. If not you will change the original timing of the animation. To make it easy just select Linear on the default interpolation parameter on the tool box window.

==TO DO ==
Include links to other wiki pages.
Include an animation sample.

Tutorials

2007-10-02T23:30:03Z

Ulrik:

This is an index of all of the tutorials for Synfig Studio.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" align="center" width="80%"
|'''Tutorial Name'''||'''Description''' || '''Level'''
|-
| [[Getting Started]] [[http://www.synfig.com/synfig_tutorial.pdf PDF]] || New to Synfig Studio? This tutorial will help you get the gist of things || Basic
|-
| [[Animation Basics]] || Introduction to making things move, the timeline, and the keyframe dialog. || Basic
|-
| [[Adding Layers]] || Introduction to the Layers palette, and basics of compositing. || Basic
|-
| [[Creating Shapes]] || Introduction to making shapes using the bline and normal tools. || Basic
|-
| [[How do I|How do I...?]] || Quick tutorials, and commonly-needed tasks. || Basic
|-
| [[PictureTutorial|Timonator's newbie tutorial with pictures!]] || a WIP tutorial with lots of screenshots. || Not defined
|-
| [[Flower Animation]] || A beginner tutorial, showing animation with blines. It could be a good tutorial to follow, after the Animations Basics one. || Intermediate
|-
| [[Building a magnifying glass]] [[http://www.musikboden.se/synfigfiles/tutorial_magnifying_glass.pdf PDF]] || A tutorial showing how to build a magnifying glass. || Intermediate
|-
| [[Following a BLine]] || A tutorial showing how to make a layer follow a BLine rotating to face the direction it's moving in. || Advanced
|-
| [[Walk Cycle]] || Tutorial showing import of multiple still frames, and rotoscoping to generate a walk cycle animation || Advanced
|-
| [[Reuse Animations]] || Tutorial that explains how to reuse "poses" of portions of the scene without interfere on the rest of it. || Advanced
|-
| [[Switching Scenes]] || Tutorial that explains how to edit a collection of .sif files together and switch back and forth between them. || Advanced
|}

== See Also ==
* [[Keyboard Shortcuts]]

General animation tutorial links:

[http://www.keithlango.com/tutorials/old/popThru/popThru.html Keith Largo Tutes]

[http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/meta-100000-animation-drawing-course.html The Animation Drawing Course at The Animation Archive]

[http://www.garycmartin.com/mouth_shapes.html Lip Sync]

File:Magnifying glass tutorial39.jpg

2007-09-30T17:29:33Z

Ulrik:

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2007-09-30T17:29:18Z

Ulrik:

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2007-09-30T17:28:53Z

Ulrik:

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2007-09-30T17:28:40Z

Ulrik:

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2007-09-30T17:28:29Z

Ulrik:

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2007-09-30T17:28:17Z

Ulrik:

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2007-09-30T17:28:06Z

Ulrik:

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2007-09-30T17:27:56Z

Ulrik:

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Ulrik:

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Ulrik:

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Ulrik:

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Ulrik:

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2007-09-30T17:26:57Z

Ulrik:

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2007-09-30T17:26:47Z

Ulrik:

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2007-09-30T17:26:37Z

Ulrik:

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Ulrik:

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Ulrik:

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Ulrik:

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2007-09-30T17:25:57Z

Ulrik:

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Ulrik:

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Ulrik:

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Ulrik:

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Ulrik:

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2007-09-30T16:55:45Z

Ulrik:

Tutorials

2007-09-30T15:02:31Z

Ulrik:

This is an index of all of the tutorials for Synfig Studio.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" align="center" width="80%"
|'''Tutorial Name'''||'''Description'''
|-
| [[Getting Started]] [[http://www.synfig.com/synfig_tutorial.pdf PDF]] || New to Synfig Studio? This tutorial will help you get the gist of things
|-
| [[Animation Basics]] || Introduction to making things move, the timeline, and the keyframe dialog.
|-
| [[Adding Layers]] || Introduction to the Layers palette, and basics of compositing.
|-
| [[Creating Shapes]] || Introduction to making shapes using the bline and normal tools.
|-
| [[How do I|How do I...?]] || Quickie tutorials, and commonly-needed tasks.
|-
| [[PictureTutorial|Timonator's newbie tutorial with pictures!]] || a WIP tutorial with lots of screenshots.
|-
| [[Flower Animation]] || A beginner tutorial, showing animation with blines. It could be a good tutorial to follow, after the Animations Basics one.
|-
| [[Following a BLine]] || A tutorial showing how to make a layer follow a BLine rotating to face the direction it's moving in
|-
| [[Building a magnifying glass]] [[http://www.musikboden.se/synfigfiles/tutorial_magnifying_glass.pdf PDF]] || A tutorial showing how to build a magnifying glass.
|-
| [[Walk Cycle]] || Tutorial showing import of multiple still frames, and rotoscoping to generate a walk cycle animation
|-
| [[Reuse Animations]] || Tutorial that explains how to reuse "poses" of portions of the scene without interfere on the rest of it
|-
| [[Building a magnifying glass(new)]] [[http://www.musikboden.se/synfigfiles/tutorial_magnifying_glass.pdf PDF]] || A tutorial showing how to build a magnifying glass.
|}

== See Also ==
* [[Keyboard Shortcuts]]

General animation tutorial links:

[http://www.keithlango.com/tutorials/old/popThru/popThru.html Keith Largo Tutes]

[http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/meta-100000-animation-drawing-course.html The Animation Drawing Course at The Animation Archive]

[http://www.garycmartin.com/mouth_shapes.html Lip Sync]

Doc:Building a magnifying glass

2007-09-26T14:31:06Z

Ulrik: New page: Only available as pdf at the moment. here: http://www.musikboden.se/synfigfiles/tutorial_magnifying_glass.pdf synfig file: http://www.musikboden.se/synfigfiles/magnifying_glass_tutorial.zi...

Only available as pdf at the moment. here: http://www.musikboden.se/synfigfiles/tutorial_magnifying_glass.pdf
synfig file: http://www.musikboden.se/synfigfiles/magnifying_glass_tutorial.zip
rendered movie at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qq3xxUSscE

Tutorials

2007-09-26T14:27:55Z

Ulrik:

This is an index of all of the tutorials for Synfig Studio.

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|'''Tutorial Name'''||'''Description'''
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| [[Getting Started]] [[http://www.synfig.com/synfig_tutorial.pdf PDF]] || New to Synfig Studio? This tutorial will help you get the gist of things
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| [[Animation Basics]] || Introduction to making things move, the timeline, and the keyframe dialog.
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| [[Adding Layers]] || Introduction to the Layers palette, and basics of compositing.
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| [[Creating Shapes]] || Introduction to making shapes using the bline and normal tools.
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| [[How do I|How do I...?]] || Quickie tutorials, and commonly-needed tasks.
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| [[PictureTutorial|Timonator's newbie tutorial with pictures!]] || a WIP tutorial with lots of screenshots.
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| [[Flower Animation]] || A beginner tutorial, showing animation with blines. It could be a good tutorial to follow, after the Animations Basics one.
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| [[Following a BLine]] || A tutorial showing how to make a layer follow a BLine rotating to face the direction it's moving in
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| [[Building a magnifying glass]] [[http://www.musikboden.se/synfigfiles/tutorial_magnifying_glass.pdf PDF]] || A tutorial showing how to build a magnifying glass.
|}

== See Also ==
* [[Keyboard Shortcuts]]

General animation tutorial links:

[http://www.keithlango.com/tutorials/old/popThru/popThru.html Keith Largo Tutes]

[http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/meta-100000-animation-drawing-course.html The Animation Drawing Course at The Animation Archive]

[http://www.garycmartin.com/mouth_shapes.html Lip Sync]

User talk:Genete

2007-09-24T20:20:21Z

Ulrik:

Always walking?

http://genetita.googlepages.com/avatar.gif/avatar-full.jpg I found him taking a rest! :) [[User:Dooglus|dooglus]] 15:35, 24 September 2007 (EDT)

: http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/images/smilies/laugh.gif
: You got me trapped! you know now my secret!!! http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/images/smilies/wink.gif... So you finally visited my Anime Studio web page... Ha ha ha... I'm a fan of Anime Studio also... But synfig is much better!!!! (I hope my friends from AS forum don't head this) ... I love Synfig!!... I only miss bones on it... http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/images/smilies/frown.gif. --[[User:Genete|Genete]] 16:00, 24 September 2007 (EDT)
I heard that Genete!! / Ulrik

User talk:Genete

2007-09-24T20:19:31Z

Ulrik:

User:Ulrik

2007-09-22T14:00:42Z

Ulrik:

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I'm an amatuer animator very interested in Synfig.
http://www.musikboden.se
at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ullebulle

User:Ulrik

2007-09-22T13:56:50Z

Ulrik:

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I'm an amatuer animator very interested in Synfig.
http://www.musikboden.se

People

2007-09-22T13:44:21Z

Ulrik:

If I've missed anyone - it's a wiki - you know what to do!

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| [[User:PaulWise | pabs3]]
| [[User: dooglus | dooglus]]
| [[FAQ#Why_doesn.27t_dyloxin_talk_on_the_Synfig_IRC_channel.5D.3F |dyloxin]]
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| [[User:pxegeek|PXEGeek]]
| KiBi
| Rore
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| [[User:Ulrik|Ulrikboden]]
| scutato
| [[User:Zelig|Zelig]]
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| [[User:Genete|Genete]]
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Also semi-frequent visitors - [[User:Madsen|Madsen]], [[User:Bombe |Bombe]], TMM, Tokyo, Zipola, [[User:zotz|zotz]], [[User:Omry|Omry]], [[User:Riggzy|Riggzy]]

User:Ulrik

2007-09-22T13:38:49Z

Ulrik:

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I'm an amatuer animator very interested in Synfig.

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2007-09-22T13:36:43Z

Ulrik: picture of ulrik

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User:Ulrik

2007-09-22T13:33:19Z

Ulrik: New page: Image:Magnifiedulrik.png Ulrik I'm an amatuer animator very interested in Synfig.

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Ulrik
I'm an amatuer animator very interested in Synfig.