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Ready to make an animated .gif of OD catch and Dunta hit on Caldwell

GP

GP

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Somebody tell me what website I can take my .avi file of OD's catch, so I can make an animated .gif

I also have that huge hit that Dunta put on Caldwell near the end of the game.
 
Virtual Dub made it into an animated .gif

But it's 640x480 and weighs 12 MB!

Now all I have to do is figure out how to scale it down to a much smaller size (in terms of it appearing on screen, like the smaller .gif clips are).
 
I use virtual dub to extract the image sequence, and Ulead Gif Animator to make the gif. Ulead lets you crop and resize as well as change delay times and whatnot.
 
JDizzle said:
I use virtual dub to extract the image sequence, and Ulead Gif Animator to make the gif. Ulead lets you crop and resize as well as change delay times and whatnot.
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Another good gif program is Animation Shop 3, heres a link to download the trial. It lets you crop and resize as well. Ulead gif animator is an awesome program though.

Link
 
JDizzle said:
I use virtual dub to extract the image sequence, and Ulead Gif Animator to make the gif. Ulead lets you crop and resize as well as change delay times and whatnot.
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OK, so I trimmed the original .avi file...where it shows only the frames that I want to use for the clip.

Originally, I did a File --> Export --> Animated Gif.

What do I do to get the trimmed clip from Virtual Dub to Ulead?
 
False Start said:
Another good gif program is Animation Shop 3, heres a link to download the trial. It lets you crop and resize as well. Ulead gif animator is an awesome program though.

Link
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Just did trial of Animation Shop 3, and it's awesome.

Re-sized it down to about 200 pixels (in its appearance on a computer screen).

Now trying to figure out how to compress it so it doesn't weigh a lot.

Any tips on compressing it (reducing weight) are welcome right now.

Should have it up in a moment.
 
arrggh...

Optimizing it, using its own system tools, made a 200 pixel .gif about 6 MB.

(Sigh)

Keep chopping wood, I suppose.
 
Dunta_Bengals_09.gif
 
I usually try to keep the dimensions of a high-frame .gif under 200x150.
Andre3-150.gif


This is 163x150 and 2mb, but the same one at 450x400 runs at almost 10mb.

If you can, only take every other frame. That'll cut the load down by half.
 
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I am going to make one more.

Any guesses on what it will be?

Hint: Not from the Bengals game.
 
Will deleting every other frame increase the speed it plays back on screen?

I don't like the slow motion effect it has on both the .gif clips I created. Looks much better in regular speed.
 
GP said:
Will deleting every other frame increase the speed it plays back on screen?

I don't like the slow motion effect it has on both the .gif clips I created. Looks much better in regular speed.
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Yes, I do it all the time. Decreases the file size as well.
 
The comment that the broadcaster, I forget who had, was hilarious something like "...that is just how he rolls...".
 
I'm looking for a program that is similar to virtual dub but will work on .flv files, any suggestions?
 
JDizzle said:
I'm looking for a program that is similar to virtual dub but will work on .flv files, any suggestions?
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I just use VLC player and take screenshots. I set it up so shift+S is a screenshot (not sure what default is), so I just have to hold it down. VLC plays every media that exists.
 
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