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Courtesy bump with a little GIF I just made to get myself re-acquainted with the software after not making any new content for a while.

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Also, friendly reminder to get Avidemux 2.5.x instead of 2.6, as 2.6 lacks the "Save Selection as JPG" option.
 
Bumpidy for question.

So I am making a gif in photoshop. Figured how to add text over top so its on all frames after a certain point. However, what is the correct way to do it so the text can change and only show up on specific frames?
 
My Avidemux keeps crashing. Also, i think I have a more updated version so it doesn't say save as JPEGs. It does say save as JPEG so I assume thats the same thing, but everytime I try to do it, it just says, "Crash. Hit OK to build crash log," or something like that.

Help?
 
Sorry for the bump.

I tried making a GIF on Photoshop CS6, and I noticed that the GIFs are a bit slow, despite selecting "no delay" on each frame. What's going on?
 
Quick said:
Sorry for the bump.

I tried making a GIF on Photoshop CS6, and I noticed that the GIFs are a bit slow, despite selecting "no delay" on each frame. What's going on?
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Have you previewed in browser?
You can also select the time delay between frames.
 
Liamario said:
Have you previewed in browser?
You can also select the time delay between frames.
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Browser, yes. Looks like it's perpetually loading the GIF.

Time delay, I'll look into that.

Thanks.

EDIT: Time delay is the time on each frame, right? If so, those have all been changed to 0, and it was still pretty slow.
 
I just want to say that if you have a Mac, you should check out GIFBrewery. It's $5 but for me it was worth it. Very easy to make GIFs from videos. You can put text on the images, but at the moment the feature is not great. The captions look kind of bad. Apparently he's improving this in the next update which should come soon. Everything else though is great in my opinion. There are even ways to bring down the size of the GIFs by limiting the amount of colors in the GIF.
 
I did a little tutorial on the basics of how I did the following gif...

ibfkjOWs3Rgx0q.gif


It's in two parts because that's how Jing works when you don't pay for it. Warning: I haven't edited these at all, I haven't even watched them other than to make sure the sound is working. I swear a few times, say "um" a lot and generally am not very professional. But hopefully it'll help someone interested in it! It's using After Effects.

EDIT: For new link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YsQaBDMJrw

No longer in 2 parts.
 
CyclopsRock said:
I did a little tutorial on the basics of how I did the following gif...

ibfkjOWs3Rgx0q.gif


It's in two parts because that's how Jing works when you don't pay for it. Warning: I haven't edited these at all, I haven't even watched them other than to make sure the sound is working. I swear a few times, say "um" a lot and generally am not very professional. But hopefully it'll help someone interested in it! It's using After Effects.

Part 1

Part 2

They're only 5 mins each.
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Oh my god I love that.
 
I'm not seeing the option to save the sequence in JPEG format..
Is it because of a newer version of avidemux? I'm using 2.6.1
 
This thread is awesome. Used the OP to make this gif.

iQBzZf8kDzYGC.gif


Thanks Gaf!

Oh and does anyone have some tips for smaller sized gifs? Because they're all quite heavy, over 5MB each.
 
CyclopsRock said:
Sozzles, gang. I was away all weekend, but here it is. I re-recorded it. I apologise for my croaky voice, I'd just woken up. It's a bit more detailed than the original up there (but if you got to see that one, it's not worth re-watching this one)/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YsQaBDMJrw

Please don't write any Amir0x shit in there.
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Is it just me or does what you say not always reflect what is happening in the vid? It feels out of sync a bit no?
 
gamma said:
Is it just me or does what you say not always reflect what is happening in the vid? It feels out of sync a bit no?
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Hmm, it's utterly baffling. You're right, it definitely isn't syncing up properly at all times. But it starts at the right time, and ends at the right time. The only thing i can think is that the software had some bits where it was lagging the screen recording but not the audio? Doesn't look like it, though... Very odd indeed. I just tried editing the time and I got it synced up at 5m but not at 11m... I think maybe the video is at fault. hmmm! I shall investigate.
 
Linius said:
Oh and does anyone have some tips for smaller sized gifs? Because they're all quite heavy, over 5MB each.
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Lower the image quality. If you're using Jasc Animation Shop, it should give you some options when you save your GIF. There's that quality slider, which I lower, depending on the length of the GIF. There's also resizing the GIF's height and length.
 
CyclopsRock said:
Sozzles, gang. I was away all weekend, but here it is. I re-recorded it. I apologise for my croaky voice, I'd just woken up. It's a bit more detailed than the original up there (but if you got to see that one, it's not worth re-watching this one)/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YsQaBDMJrw

Please don't write any Amir0x shit in there.
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Thanks! Wanted to check out your tutorial on Jing but it didn't work, maybe I'll try to make a worthy Kaz gif ;)
 
Quick said:
Lower the image quality. If you're using Jasc Animation Shop, it should give you some options when you save your GIF. There's that quality slider, which I lower, depending on the length of the GIF. There's also resizing the GIF's height and length.
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Yeah, I resize them to 320×180. That's a nice size for forums. But I didn't lower the quality so I'll try that with the next gif. I don't want everyone's browser to choke on my gifs :P
 
How do you get the save as a series of images option in avidemux? This is all I see in the file menu.

GmOy5sL.jpg
 
CyclopsRock said:
Sozzles, gang. I was away all weekend, but here it is. I re-recorded it. I apologise for my croaky voice, I'd just woken up. It's a bit more detailed than the original up there (but if you got to see that one, it's not worth re-watching this one)/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YsQaBDMJrw
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Thanks for the guide, I caught your original video before it expired and made this 40mb epic.

I'm running CS6 and realised I couldn't export the comp directly as a GIF, and converting it with Photoshop's Save for Web would've been dire. So I went with a PNG sequence and used some command line tools to get the end result.

Resized and unsharpened in Imagemagick
Code: 
mogrify -resize '360' -unsharp 0.25x{250} -format gif *.png

Turned into a .gif with with Gifsicle.
Code: 
gifsicle -d 7 --loopcount --colors 128 -O3 --dither *.gif > animation.gif
 
CyclopsRock said:
Sozzles, gang. I was away all weekend, but here it is. I re-recorded it. I apologise for my croaky voice, I'd just woken up. It's a bit more detailed than the original up there (but if you got to see that one, it's not worth re-watching this one)/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YsQaBDMJrw

Please don't write any Amir0x shit in there.
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Thanks. I have a question though. I need to adjust the size of Kaz throughout the GIF, but when I adjust the size when needed, the size is applied to the whole GIF. So Kaz's head is big in the beginning, when I want it to be small. How do I have varied sizes for images?
 
whitehawk said:
Thanks. I have a question though. I need to adjust the size of Kaz throughout the GIF, but when I adjust the size when needed, the size is applied to the whole GIF. So Kaz's head is big in the beginning, when I want it to be small. How do I have varied sizes for images?
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There's a "Scale" property underneath the Kaz layer. Next to where the opacity is, below the Masks. That will only affect that one layer. Unfortunately, it's a bit crude - it'll always expand out from the middle. If you animate the anchor, you have it appear to grow out from the bottom etc, but it's a bit of a pain.
 
CyclopsRock said:
There's a "Scale" property underneath the Kaz layer. Next to where the opacity is, below the Masks. That will only affect that one layer. Unfortunately, it's a bit crude - it'll always expand out from the middle. If you animate the anchor, you have it appear to grow out from the bottom etc, but it's a bit of a pain.
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I figured it out but thanks a lot :) I ended up making this GIF.

iIxzk8NrwpWc5.gif
 
This thread is a godsend. I finally have GIF technology! Spent most of last night making my first GIF. Is there any way to output the animation without optimizing it? The animation looks perfect when all the right frames are resized and in order, but the optimization process lowers the quality one way or another, despite the file size being reduced by half. I'd be fine with a 3MB GIF if it looks perfect, as opposed to a 3MB GIF with some dithering.

Anyway, love this Jasc thing. Here's my first GIF. Rendered at level 4 Better Image Quality, with all the boxes checked in the Optimizations tab in "Customize...", 255 colors, Octree, Nearest Color.
X64klhW.gif


Nearest Color gives that layered look, which I don't mind as much as I do the color black not being actually black. I get that it thinks it isn't black, but I know it's supposed to be. I did manually paint bucket the black parts, and this is what happened. Would have gone with it if it weren't for the bleeding outside of the intended areas.
http://i.imgur.com/UkPkmIY.gif

As for the Error Diffusion, the noisy look of it wasn't too distracting, but the real issue was the file size not changing at all. Going from the Current File to Optimized File changed the quality, but the file sizes were both 3.063 MB. How does it look not as good while staying the same size? Here's the Error Diffusion GIF.
http://i.minus.com/ibkrtLICw9xsaY.gif

I can keep it under 2MB (I prefer imgur) by culling the frames and increasing the frame display times from 4 to 7 or 8, but then the GIF is a little jerky, and I notice a couple frames missing.
http://i.imgur.com/QGnCwNx.gif
 
alr1ght said:
Gif can only have 256 colors so you're never going to get "perfect" quality.
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So the unoptimized animation is just a preview and doesn't/can't actually exist as its own file? That's too bad, but I don't mind since I can actually make GIFs now. I did manage to shave some off the file size by deleting repeating frames and increasing the display time of the first duplicate frame to take up the others' time. Can't wait to make all sorts of stupid reaction GIFs!
 
Pretty much. You can use animated png (Jasc doesn't support it) but it won't work in all browsers and the file size is large.
 
I used avidemux, but every time I went to save the video as a jpeg, it was just output this single tiny file with no filetype extension. I was able to just go through frame by frame luckily since it was a short animation but I'd imagine it would suck on longer ones. Regardless, the fruit of my efforts:

8HmoIUf.gif
 
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