Posted: 6/26/2005 6:32 PM
Post subject: How to make GIF animations.
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Vatchern
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Can anyone help me on how to make .gif animation pics?
http://tasvideos.org/Vatchern.html
Posted: 6/26/2005 6:39 PM
(Edited: 6/26/2005 6:43 PM)
Post subject: Re: How to make GIF animations.
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Bisqwit
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Vatchern wrote:
Can anyone help me on how to make .gif animation pics?
I have made my animations with custom code that is currently not available in Windows. The unique feature in it is that it allows converting background-scrolling animations to ones where background is static (thus greatly saving the file size). I also call it by names "automapper" and "tiletracker". The program gifsicle, however, can be used to create animated GIFs out from a sequence of still images (gif).
Posted: 6/26/2005 6:40 PM
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Manga_Maniac59
Joined: 6/1/2005
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Easy when you know how :) I use Image Ready (an extension of Adobe Photoshop). You can import video files (but not too long, 5-6 seconds max), or you can create your own gif with pics. Tell me if you want some advices :)
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Posted: 6/26/2005 6:41 PM
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Dada
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I use Animation Shop, which comes with recent versions of Paint Shop Pro. Another good program to try is Ulead Gif Animator.
Posted: 6/26/2005 6:47 PM
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Vatchern
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Ok.. i will try some of the programs you guys have listed.
http://tasvideos.org/Vatchern.html
Posted: 6/27/2005 11:37 AM
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Warp
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A free program which supports making animated gifs is the gimp (never tried doing so, though; I just have seen that it supports them).
Posted: 6/28/2005 1:06 AM
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Bag_of_Magic_Food
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I normally use Microsoft Gif Animator. It works pretty well.
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Posted: 6/28/2005 8:47 PM
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quietkane
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Warp wrote:
A free program which supports making animated gifs is the gimp (never tried doing so, though; I just have seen that it supports them).
The gimp is the shit. You have to get used to it, first, but it's a lovely little program once you understand it. Homepage
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Posted: 6/28/2005 9:10 PM
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I was about to go off my handle at you, but then I reread your first sentence and saw the second "the." Yes, it is the shit.
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Posted: 7/1/2005 6:40 AM
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Warp
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One small problem with the gimp, especially for windows users, is that it's not a windows program. It's a unix program developed over the GTK library (which is a generic GUI library). If anything, it follows more the principles of some X-windowing system window managers than anything else. The program has quite clearly been designed to be used in its own virtual desktop (without any other programs running in the same desktop). The problem is that its UI is not a standard Windows UI, and the windows version of the program is just a raw port. Since it works rather differently from most windows programs, most windows users find it difficult to use at first (and most of them will quickly dismiss it because of that). By default Windows doesn't have virtual desktops and all the tiny separate windows of the gimp will get mixed with all the other program windows running at the same time. Also some other non-windows features may be difficult to use (such as the non-standard open dialog). However, once you get used to it, it's a quite powerful program, in some cases even matching high-end commercial equivalents.
Posted: 7/2/2005 7:59 PM
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Xkeeper
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I don't like MS GIF Animator because you have to paste the frames in, as opposed to just loading a billion BMP/whatever images into it and soriting them out there. I always find it a pain. One I really liked was GIF Construction Set Professional... Older versions (the one I used to have) would just bother you with nag screens but it was really the ultimate GIF creation tool.... but the latest versions seem to start putting watermarks on things, which is bad >_<
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Posted: 7/6/2005 6:52 PM
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creaothceann
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I'm using Animation Shop and unfreez.
Posted: 7/7/2005 4:27 AM
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You can output gifs with mplayer with "-vo gif89a", but it is not extremely well tuned. Example: mplayer mymovie.avi -vo gif89a:15:mymovie.gif