Happy New 2010!
January 1st, 2010
Hello APNG fans, and Happy New Year!
I’m Max and I’ll be managing animatedpng.com now.
As you might have noticed, some of the info on the site is updated already.
Notably APNG Assembler is at version 2.0 now, and is able to generate highly optimized APNGs. Also more software is presented at the apng editors page, with nice screenshots. You should expect more new stuff in the near future – news, articles, tips, software and samples.
Here’s for the 10s, the APNG decade!
Max.
February 20th, 2010 at 5:10 am
APNG would take off like a rocket if it embraced all the folks with pocket video cameras. Imagine taking a photo but instead it lasts 3-7 seconds long. If people could take mini-clips with their iphones and pocket cameras and upload them to be viewed as easily as jpegs it would change the world of photography. Shoot it and share it.
What it needs is a limit on play time. 7 seconds or less. And a name that’s catchy.. “microvid” only much better than that.
Sure you can do all that with Video. But that’s a cludgy workaround to sharing an album of snapshots that move, just like it was an album of photos.
Every mom would jump on board in a heartbeat because posting a 5 second clip of her 2 year-old blowing bubbles to youtube is kind of obnoxious and not worth the effort. But sharing a photo is something we do every day.
Imagine looking through a friend’s facebook galleries, but many of the images move through a 3-7 second loop, pause briefly on the last frame, and then loop again.
Everybody with a modern camera has loads of these kinds of clips that never see the light of day.
Well I can dream can’t I?
February 20th, 2010 at 5:11 am
P.S. Kudos and Thanks for all your APNG efforts!!
February 25th, 2010 at 8:20 am
How do I submit a sample?
I think I tried sending it by email a long time ago but never got a reply.
There’s no contact link on the site that I can see so I’m not sure where I send it anyway.
February 25th, 2010 at 8:48 am
Send them to me
newstop
gmail
June 28th, 2010 at 6:23 am
Will the apng assebler be made as a photoshop plugin? I`m looking forward to this. I find it hard to work in GIMP since i`ve been using photoshop for a long time.
June 28th, 2010 at 6:30 am
That’s the plan, yes. I’m working on it.