How can I do better animated flame and/or lightning?

I am using Premiere 5.0 and Photoshop 6.0. I have taken short video clips
(approx 5 seconds) converted them to filmstrips with premirer. Then, I take
the filmstrips and open them in Photoshop; edit the panels and save; then
convert filmstrip back into video.
After all of that, I use photoshop to generate flame(Panopticum) or
lightning(almathera). The problem with the fire is that it is too fast.
I've tried putting the same flame pattern on two or three frames- it just
looks far too choppy. The problem with the lightning is that it's not
directional or definable by area-I-m looking for something similar to the
Highlander effect.
Can anyone help ?
Lion

Lionhardht

Re: How can I do better animated flame and/or lightning?

On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:00:03 GMT, "Lionhardht"
This brings up something I'd like to do and have no idea where to
start. I'd like to make an animation from several photographs (of the
item changing positions similar to cels in cartoons) and then
transform that into a video running about three minutes.
I have Photoshop 7/Image Ready and Pinnacle 10, but prefer to edit in
Windows Movie Maker. I know people generally deprecate WMM, but it
works fine for me in making home videos...and I've done dozens of
them.
I know I can import individual frames into WMM or P10, but I'm not
sure if I can import series of clips made in Image Ready. It would
certainly be easier.
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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL