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Title: Movie to Animated GIF
Post by: Serenity on April 27, 2009, 02:04:57 AM

I have seen many people take clips from movies and turn them into animated GIFs. How is this done?

Title: Re: Movie to Animated GIF
Post by: Xasthur on April 27, 2009, 02:20:56 AM

Programs like Adobe Imageready.

You can capture a clip and select how many frames you want to capture (smooth vs file size).

Then you can edit each frame as you please.

Then simply save as a .gif and you're away.

Title: Re: Movie to Animated GIF
Post by: Serenity on April 27, 2009, 02:26:44 AM

Damn I cannot afford adobe products. Oh well, thanks!

Title: Re: Movie to Animated GIF
Post by: AWwrgwy on April 27, 2009, 06:19:41 AM

Quote from: Serenity on April 27, 2009, 02:26:44 AM

Damn I cannot afford adobe products. Oh well, thanks!

What did you use to make your avitar?


wrongway

Title: Re: Movie to Animated GIF
Post by: Serenity on April 28, 2009, 01:25:31 AM

Quote from: AWwrgwy on April 27, 2009, 06:19:41 AM

What did you use to make your avitar?


wrongway

GIMP. But they started as individual pictures, not a movie.

Title: Re: Movie to Animated GIF
Post by: The Fugitive on April 28, 2009, 06:09:49 AM

Quote from: Serenity on April 28, 2009, 01:25:31 AM

GIMP. But they started as individual pictures, not a movie.

so take a bunch of individual screen shots of the movie and turn them into an animated gif.

Title: Re: Movie to Animated GIF
Post by: AWwrgwy on April 28, 2009, 08:43:28 AM

Quote from: The Fugitive on April 28, 2009, 06:09:49 AM

so take a bunch of individual screen shots of the movie and turn them into an animated gif.

What he said.  I use VLC player. Play/Pause/Screenshot paste into Paintshop Pro, rinse, repeat.  Over and over.  Gotta be quick on the Play/Pause.   :) 

Cut and paste the screenshot to get what I want.  Resize the cut and paste.  I use Animation Shop for the gif because it pretty much does everything else for you.

I originally had 114 shots for my sig gif and ended up using 40 in the end product.

Really the hardest part is taking the screenshots.


wrongway

Title: Re: Movie to Animated GIF
Post by: Serenity on April 29, 2009, 02:18:21 AM

Quote from: AWwrgwy on April 28, 2009, 08:43:28 AM

What he said.  I use VLC player. Play/Pause/Screenshot paste into Paintshop Pro, rinse, repeat.  Over and over.  Gotta be quick on the Play/Pause.   :) 

Cut and paste the screenshot to get what I want.  Resize the cut and paste.  I use Animation Shop for the gif because it pretty much does everything else for you.

I originally had 114 shots for my sig gif and ended up using 40 in the end product.

Really the hardest part is taking the screenshots.


wrongway

lol. That's exactly the effort I was hoping to avoid! Oh well, one of these days I'll get to doing it. Thank you!

Title: Re: Movie to Animated GIF
Post by: Xasthur on April 29, 2009, 05:04:48 AM

There has to be a free alternative to Imageready.

Surely...

Title: Re: Movie to Animated GIF
Post by: moot on April 29, 2009, 06:04:38 AM

Send it to me, I'll do it.