Author Topic: Creating an Animated GIF (Read 415 times)

Meatwad · « **on:** April 02, 2007, 08:12:33 PM »

What steps would I need to take to create an animated .gif from a .avi movie clip

eskimo2 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 02, 2007, 08:35:50 PM »

http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html

Meatwad · « **Reply #2 on:** April 02, 2007, 08:56:26 PM »

bummer, expensive.

I didnt see any freeware versions of what I was looking for earlier, buess it all costs money

JB88 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 02, 2007, 08:58:15 PM »

i use flash to do it.

Meatwad · « **Reply #4 on:** April 02, 2007, 09:13:04 PM »

I R NOT SMART

How do you do it

JB88 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 02, 2007, 09:15:50 PM »

how big is it?

eskimo2 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 02, 2007, 09:18:42 PM »

The problem with Gifs, from what I understand, is that Compuserve still owns rights for the image format and still charges a fee for any program that creates Gifs. This makes Gif shareware impossible. Correct me if I’m wrong; I hope I am.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 02, 2007, 09:19:50 PM »

GIF Construction Set Professional can make Gifs from movies, I think. I've never tried it but think I saw it in the menu.

Meatwad · « **Reply #8 on:** April 02, 2007, 09:25:03 PM »

I found one that I thought it worked, but it dont so I give up on it tonight.

I absolutely dont know how to take a movie clip and turn bits and pieces of it into an animated image, say 320 x 280 in size. I would have to start from step 1 and go slowly from there, I dont understand any of it.

Heres a couple of examples of taking a video clip and making images like this

The images above have long animation sequences, like something I want to create. My guess they were ripped from a video file and turned into an animated image, but I dont have the slightest idea how to start

Meatwad · « **Reply #9 on:** April 02, 2007, 09:25:34 PM »

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Originally posted by JB88
how big is it?

I dont know yet

Ball · « **Reply #10 on:** April 03, 2007, 02:27:41 AM »

Havent read the link, but cant you use that program the film makers use to make AH films from the .ahf files?

Can't remember the name of it.

Edit: Think it is called FRAPS if i remember rightly.

Ball · « **Reply #11 on:** April 03, 2007, 02:49:47 AM »

Oops, misread it. Was thinking of making a movie from an animated gif..

To do it the other way, i think a program called Bink can do it.

You just need to capture each frame of the video file into image, then string them together as an animated gif.

JB88 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 03, 2007, 02:52:15 AM »

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Originally posted by Meatwad
I dont know yet

is this something that you want to learn to do yourself?

Meatwad · « **Reply #13 on:** April 03, 2007, 06:41:35 AM »

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Originally posted by JB88
is this something that you want to learn to do yourself?

Yes, I have always wanted to learn how but never got very far

Ghosth · « **Reply #14 on:** April 03, 2007, 08:09:21 AM »

Google search "Free Gif Animator" More choices than you can shake a stick at!

I've used Gif Const set pro and its nice, incredibly easy.
I've also used the coffee cup animator, and its not bad either.

You CAN find free versions if you look.

I'd suggest that you may want to look at this one first.
http://www.download.com/Ulead-GIF-Animator/3000-2186_4-5422267.html
I've always been favorably impressed with software from download.com.

Once I have the images that I want to use I use another free program
http://www.irfanview.com to open,crop or resize, and save as .gif. Then its childs play to add the images, play with timing, etc and build your animated gif.