GIF help

[Holditstrong]

Hi

I just tried to post my first GIF clip but it's only an image. Can anyone help me!

Can I not just attach from where I have it saved?

And what is the file limit?

[magizi877]

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Copy the BBcode and paste it at the forum post.

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[GonzoLover]

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[Gemini]

I join with the request.
1) how to extract a series of photos from the movie (let's assume that I have the movie on HDD)?
2) how (how the program or on which website) put this together?
3) how (on what website) post it on the web?

Best to those programs and websites were free.

[magizi877]

oh man.... In my honest opinion free stuff is often useless and is plagued with advertisement and malware. Stay away from those. lol.

I use Photoshop CC which I'm afraid to say, it's not free and is not cheap either hehe. You can download a 1 month free trial from adobe.

Steps:

1) clic on file, then clic on import, then clic video frames to layers
2) select a movie, a new window will appear where you can select a time range. 10 seconds worth of movie is about 500 frames, which the biggest amount photoshop can support. So I would suggest to choose "limit to every "2, 3 or 4" frames. I would suggest 2 for gifs with action on them, 3 or 4 for gifs where the girl is performing alone. Make sure the checkbox "make frame animation" is selected.
3) I would suggest to reduce the image size, press "Ctrl + Alt + i" and reduce the width of the image to 400 to 500 pixels and make sure Height is linked. (this would reduce the gif size and will also help your computer process everything much faster.
4) Remove the unwanted images.
5) clic the play button in the time line to see how fast the animation is played. Since we choose to skip some frames when we crated the frame animation, it is likely that our animation looks too fast, like being fast forwarded. To fix this select all the frames and left clic the number below each frame. to increase the time, so of it says 0.03 that means each frame is played after 30ms. so change it to like 0.05 so it's played every 50 ms. (ms = miliseconds) Play with this value until the animation looks right.
6) Next step is saving the animation to do this we clic on file, then clic on save for web. Play with the settings. To make sure your file size is not huge but at the same time you don't sacrifice much image quality. Make sure you save it as a gif file.

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By default your animation should loop for ever, if not, the controls are in the timeline.

EDIT. I forgot to mention that there are many How to videos on youtube, which is how I learned to do it.
I'M BY NO MEANS A PRO. If anyone knows how to do it better, I'm all ears.

ALSO forgot to mention that with a picture size of 400 x 226 pixels , every 22ish frames is worth 1 mb in your gif.
And the Gifs I make are usually below the 10 mb file size.

[Gemini]

Ok magizi87, many thanks for that you wanted it so thoroughly explain step by step. For sure your tips will be useful. Remains for me to obtain the full version of the program and start making gifs to the test. In case of any problems, I'll come back here and possibly ask for advice. Thanks again.

EDIT. From myself I will add that if someone does not display a "timeline", you should place the cursor on the "window". There is a timeline.

[nrop1_nnn]

Ok magizi87, many thanks for that you wanted it so thoroughly explain step by step. For sure your tips will be useful. Remains for me to obtain the full version of the program and start making gifs to the test. In case of any problems, I'll come back here and possibly ask for advice. Thanks again.

EDIT. From myself I will add that if someone does not display a "timeline", you should place the cursor on the "window". There is a timeline.

Did you ever figure it out? The gif I loaded on this forum only loads maybe.. 1 of 10 times that I've refreshed the page lol.. If I quote myself it loads up find at the bottom. I tried making it from adobe premiere pro and Photoshop but still doesn't load up the video (just the icon with the file name I saved it as)