From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs and Plotagraphs

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Loading an image sequence into Flixel

Loading an image sequence into Flixel

From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs and Plotagraphs

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Loading an image sequence into Flixel

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- Let's move on to a dedicated application, Cinemagraph Pro from Flixel. Now, this is a Mac-only application, but it really serves only one purpose, to create cinemagraphs. As such, its tool set is completely streamlined for the task. The first example is going to be a burst rate of images. This isn't a timelapse. Rather, I shot a high speed burst of a sequence. Let me show you. Now in Flixel, you can drag or drop images in. Let's take a look at the folder here and I'll show you what happened. To start, I had a series of raw files. Let's open these up using a tool like Adobe Photoshop. You can open up several images and you'll see here that compared to where the image started, I was able to do some pretty cool things, bringing up the shadows a little bit to lift it out of the dark while recovering the highlights to protect the detail there in the electricity. This is an electrical Jacob's Ladder. Playing with the overall exposure, the contrast, in this case clarity really brought out…

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