dotTech - Topic: How do you make an animated gif? http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 amnesia on How do you make an animated gif? http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p431 Advice Corner http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p431 It lools like the APngs your talking about are if you want to make something from scratch. I just want to use an existing video.

Still couldn't get the quality to improve in FormatFactory. I'll just stick with the other way I found for the time being.

Thanks.

]]> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:11:48 -0700 Locutus on How do you make an animated gif? http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p428 Advice Corner http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p428 If you really want to have a higher quality, I'd look up how to make APngs.  (Still haven't found an easy way, and they also don't work in some browsers, IE included)

]]> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:29:22 -0700 Locutus on How do you make an animated gif? http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p417 Advice Corner http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p417 GIFs are by nature 256 colors.  The SW might not have picked the right 256.

]]> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:17:11 -0700 amnesia on How do you make an animated gif? http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p415 Advice Corner http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p415 I had another go with FormatFactory and got it going this time. Don't ask me what I did the first time cause I don't KnowConfused. I did notice however that the video quality is very poor with FF. I will have another go at it a little later and see if I can fine tune it.

]]> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:19:31 -0700 Ashraf on How do you make an animated gif? http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p414 Advice Corner http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p414

amnesia said:

Nah, that didn't work. The programs I used were, FFDSHOW, VirtualDub, and Photoscape. And this tutorial. Had to replace Adobe ImageReady with Photoscape.

Really? Out of curiosity why didn't FormatFactory works? It allows you to convert videos to GIFs and choose the size (and/or crop).

]]> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:07:22 -0700 amnesia on How do you make an animated gif? http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p412 Advice Corner http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p412 Nah, that didn't work. The programs I used were, FFDSHOW, VirtualDub, and Photoscape. And this tutorial. Had to replace Adobe ImageReady with Photoscape.

]]> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:12:28 -0700 Ashraf on How do you make an animated gif? http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p411 Advice Corner http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p411 Oh okay. Use FormatFactory to convert and resize your video (use "All to GIF" under video). And it should loop automatically since it is a GIF. If not let me know and I will try to figure out how to make it loop.

Hope this helps =).

]]> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:33:59 -0700 amnesia on How do you make an animated gif? http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p410 Advice Corner http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p410 Sorry, I didn't explain myself properly. I want to make a avatar. I have a video that needs to be cut down to a few seconds, resized and then looped. Does that make sense? What program would  I use to do this?

]]> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:39:52 -0700 Ashraf on How do you make an animated gif? http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p409 Advice Corner http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p409 Try PhotoScape. It has a feature which allows you to turn images and animate them into GIFs. Since PhotoScape image editor is not as powerful as say GIMP, if you need you can always create your images using some other software and throw it into PhotoScap to animate.

]]> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:14:41 -0700 amnesia on How do you make an animated gif? http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p408 Advice Corner http://dottech.org/forums/advice-corner/how-do-you-make-an-animated-gif/#p408 Does anyone know what programs to use, and is there a tutoral somewhere? I don't have photoshop.

Thanks

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