Sqirlz Water Reflections

[Chuck Engels]

Sqirlz Water Reflections Is a very cool little program that let's you add movement to water in still images, check it out

The newest version includes some great new features like Rain and Snow!

[Wheat King]

I've been looking for a rain and snow thing! Cool!

[Chuck Engels]

There are 2 zipped Flash tutorials, be sure to download those. The tutorials will give you a quick start then you just need to tweek the settings till you get what you are looking for. The help is pretty good too.

[mike]

Thanks for the link Chuck, looks good.

[Chuck Engels]

Very cool tool, you will see some of its work in my new motion backgrounds

[ed]

I've always wanted to try this software. We went down to the water today to have some lunch. I took some photos then played around with it and did this.

http://www.vimeo.com/clip:152400

[Chuck Engels]

Nice work Ed, that is one cool tool and not too hard to use either.

[Jayell]

Those came out great, Ed! .. thanks for demonstrating . Somehow it makes it more believable than just seeing the 'advertisement.'

[Chuck Engels]

I used it to do the new swimming motion backgrounds too

[ed]

It's really easy, I didn't even read the instructions. I would like to figure out how to do multiple zones though.

[happy2bapappy]

nice work there. As said before, it's nice to see someone else have success with that program.

As an 11th hour effort, I tried to use that program for a DVD menu. I had no success. I had problems exporting/saving.

In seeing your work, I'll have to revisit that program.

[ed]

What did you export as? I exported as uncompressed AVI and brought that into APE. I don't think exporting a moving GIF would work in a video editor.

I did export a moving GIF and put it on my website front page yesterday. It worked fine as an image.

I also like how you can make it look like there is water in place where there wasn't.

[happy2bapappy]

I had set for maximum smoothness, and tried to save in various ways.
Like you, I also tried as an uncompressed AVI. However, I also changed the frame rate from 20 to 30. After about 5hrs of the program doing its thing, I gave up on it. Perhaps I should've just left the program defaults and not changed the smoothnes or even the frame rate for that matter.

[ed]

I left the frames at 15 for export. I didn't adjust the smoothness, it said it would take longer to render, and I only had about an hour to do the photos, make the video file, and render to Quicktime. I did use a little blur on some of them though.

[Chuck Engels]

John, Set the length to 150 (5 seconds) the frame rate to 30 (if you are going to use it in Premiere Elements), it really takes some CPU to create the file but it should work fine. Try not setting the smoothness just as a test to see if that is your problem.

Ed, For the swimming pool I did each lane individually, six or seven images. Brought them all into Premiere Elements and cropped each one so that only the animation was showing on that clip. Each image on a separate track and cropping and positioning till it looked like the original.

Export as a single AVI and there you go. A little work but it is possible.