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Title: how to make easy animated gifs?
Post by: Don Flamenco on May 04, 2008, 11:29:32 PM

hay eb--
So I attempted to make an animated gif and it took way too long and ended up kinda sucking:
(http://i31.tinypic.com/oua5i0.gif)

I felt like I was doing it wrong:  using the screenshot feature of VLC (which has no hotkeys, afaik), resizing each frame manually and saving each one as .jpg manually in paint.net, then adding them to easy gif animator.  Easy gif animator allows you to resize in the program, but it sucks--it kept crashing when I used full sized images in .png format. 

is there an easier way?  preferably something that lets me edit batches of photos, maybe a screenshot program that saves with my pre-set sizes and file types, and a gif creator that is better?

Title: Re: how to make easy animated gifs?
Post by: Ecrofirt on May 05, 2008, 12:58:15 AM

 :lol

Title: Re: how to make easy animated gifs?
Post by: bork on May 05, 2008, 01:24:09 AM

What exactly is going on that picture?   :lol

Title: Re: how to make easy animated gifs?
Post by: Powerslave on May 05, 2008, 01:36:09 AM

There is no easy way. Everybody is doing it like that.

Title: Re: how to make easy animated gifs?
Post by: Rman on May 05, 2008, 01:36:50 AM

What's that?

Title: Re: how to make easy animated gifs?
Post by: Don Flamenco on May 05, 2008, 02:27:43 AM

Quote from: lyte edge on May 05, 2008, 01:24:09 AM

What exactly is going on that picture?   :lol

some dude hobbling away on one leg.  it's from the hellsing OVA.  it's funny, but if I can get it just right, it'll be fucking awesome. 

Title: Re: how to make easy animated gifs?
Post by: CajoleJuice on May 05, 2008, 04:21:15 AM

I use VirtualDub to create a segmented AVI or collection of frames. Then open that up in whatever GIF program you want to use.