#rp tutorials

1.download the media you're looking for. i use t*rrents and various accounts that post downloads. if you want to know what i use specifically, come to me off anon and i'll share them with you for legal purposes lmao. for reference, i'm using the film companion (2025) and sophie thatcher as my subject for the gifs.

2.once the media has downloaded on my laptop, i start creating folders for what i need. i leave one for 'clips' which are, you guessed it, for clipping and 'sophie gifs' for storing the gifs in one spot.

3. from there, i will open the file with the media i downloaded and start my clipping process. personally, i clip little by little for the sake of my storage so i usually clip every ten minutes in one minute increments, finish the set of gifs, and then move onto the next ten minutes of the media until i'm finished.

4. quicktime player is pre-installed on my mac so i don't have to use any external features for this, and trim as needed.

5. once i've clipped everything, this is how my 'clips' folder usually looks. imagine there's usually more, but i only clipped a couple for tutorial sake!

6. now for the fun part, we can finally open photoshop!

7. i usually the videos frames to layers to make my gifs, so you'll go to file -> import -> video frames to layers

8. from here, i'll use those little cursor bits to pick out what i want to gif.

9. and now we're finally in. this is what my personal setup looks like. if you're working with a default version, you'll want to play around with what you like, but you will absolutely need to have your actions, layers, properties, and timeline checked. you can find these in the window tab if they are unchecked.

10. now i'm going to apply my action by clicking on 'lexi's big bad gif action' and hitting the play button.

11. when this pops up, just hit cancel.

12. now we're going to highlight all of our layers by using shift + select. then right click and 'convert to smart layers'. your layers should now be condensed.

13. now we're going to go back to our actions. see how the smart sharpen is highlighted now? play that and just hit okay through the sharpening.

14. ooh, pretty! i apply my base coloring psd which looks wonky as hell because it isn't colored for this specific clip.

15. i'll open up that coloring folder and get to work. here are the specific colors i used, but all of this is going to be based on what you are coloring in specific.

16. now we're just going to crop and resize to our liking. i prefer my gifs to be 268x151 for gif packs!

17. look at that, you have a gif! from here, we'll save from web and i'll show you the way i have my settings for exporting. you can save from web by going to file -> export -> save for web.

18. it'll automatically throw you into a filter that says optimized, which i switch back to original.

19. now i'm just gonna save this to my 'sophie gifs' folder.

once you export, you'll have a little guy like this:

STEP 1: PROGRAMS

the main program you'll need for this is VLC Media Player. the reason for this is because it has a built-in feature that allows you to screencap any video you play. now if you're roleplaying as a video game character and you need the cutscenes from said game ( or video game movies as i call them if they're all together in one video ) then i definitely recommend you getting 4K Video Downloader. the free version allows you to download up to 30 videos / day for free whereas the license grants you an unlimited # of downloads / day off of youtube.

STEP 2: THE SETUP

after you've install VLC Media Player, get it going and go to Tools > Preferences. once you've done that something like this should pop up.

now do me a solid and click All in the box that's highlighted in the red box. by doing so will result in this popping

now scroll all the way down to where you see Video and then click on Filter. once done you'll have this pop up.

once you have this window up scroll the sidescroll all the way to the right until you see Scene filter video. it'll be third from the top as highlighted down below. check it and then click Save.

STEP 3: WE'RE ALMOST THERE

so once you hit Save, the box closes. there's nothing to freak out or worry about because that's perfectly normal. what we're gonna do now is have you go to ... like ... your Pictures folder and make a folder named after whatever you're getting screencaps for. if you're needing screencaps for, say, crisis core reunion then you'll create a new folder and name it something like ... say ... Crisis Core Reunion Screencaps. now do me a favor and double click on the folder so that you're now actually in it. you'll see why in a minute.

i need you to go back to Tools > Preferences > All > Videos in VLC Media Player. once you do that i need you to click on the little > right next to Filter so that a little drop down menu will pop up. it'll look a little something like this.

now scroll all the way down until you see Scene filter and click on that. once you've clicked on it this window will pop up.

remember when i told you to keep that folder up and running for Crisis Core Reunion Screencaps? well, this is where it comes into play! click on where it says This PC > Pictures > Crisis Core Reunion Screencaps , highlight everything , and the press CTRL + C to copy it. and for those of you wondering ... ... ... ... ... it'll look a little something like this: C:\Users\PROFILE\Pictures\RP Stuff\References. that's perfectly normal!

now i want you go pay close attention to the box i have highlighted down below. why? because the original number they had for the Recording ratio is ridiculous. switching the number to 1 means that it'll take one ( 1 ) screencap every second! and the number of screencaps you'll have will determine how long your video game movie is.

now you're probably wondering why the Directory path prefix is empty. of course you are. why wouldn't you be wondering it? well, that's where you're putting the directory for the directory path you just copied earlier! click on the empty box and press CTRL + V to paste it. once finished, click save and you're good to go.

STEP 4: GETTING THE ACTUAL SCREENCAPS

now that you've gotten all of the hard stuff done and out of the way, this is when you click on Media > Open file and then click on that Crisis Core Reunion movie you downloaded using 4K Video Downloader. once you have that going, the screencapping will commence and all you have to do is just minimize VLC Media Player and go on your merry way until the "movie" is done!

this is all you have to do to get screencaps. and all you have to do every time you want to get screencaps for something super specific is to make a folder for said thing, copy the directory path, and paste it into the Directory path prefix.

now all you have to do is type out your response on Roleplay Formatter, highlight the text you want to color, and then select color text font as shown down below.

once you click on that the image on the top will pop up. i need you to do me a favor and click on more options which will trigger the image on the bottom to pop up.

now obviously you're gonna want to pick out your color in advance because that'll make things 1,000,000 times easier in the long run. i'mma choose emerald green because that's what i use for my ulquiorra blog over @segnuda ( shameless self promo ). the color hex for emerald green is #50C878 for any of you wondering, fyi. you will do like i did in the image on the top and paste it in the second or bottom box. once you do that you click on okay and it will turn out like it does in the image on the bottom.

now i recommend you going ham and doing anything fancy shmancy with your text — bold, italics, strikethrough, small font, etc. — because who doesn't like fancying up their writing, right? i decided to make my text small ( in which you click on Styles until you see Small and click on that ) and bold / italicize / underline the first line as seen in the image on the top. once you get everything to your likings click on Source as highlighted in the image on the bottom.

NOTE: don't pull a me and actually underline your stuff because i forgot that BTE doesn't support underline. it won't register it at all.

once you've done that, you'll see something similar to the image similar to the one on the top. i need you to copy the whole entire source code via CTRL + C and then get onto tumblr followed by getting a text box open. i need you to do like i did in this tutorial here and completely backspace to where it goes from the middle image to the bottom image.

once done, click on the settings widget in the top right corner and go from Rich text to HTML as seen in the top image. it'll now look something like the image in the middle. after you've done that, paste the code you just copied and it'll look a little something like the one on the bottom.

when done you'll click on the settings widget again and go from HTML to Rich text. once done it'll look a little something like this!