Hey guys.
I have some video footage off my DVC that's captured in AVI format.

I was wondering what's a good program to make a short GIF out of it?
(like 1-3 seconds per gif max/couple of frames)

Last one I used went funky (played super fast in FF and slow-mo in IE) and that was years ago, I HAVE NFI what people use :]

Cheers!

theres a little prog you can get that does it.. it might be a bought one though..

gif movie gear

^

also want one that doesnt put the programs logo in the pic

ta

gif movie gear

fail

won't open an xvid, says i don't have the codec, and i so do

output each frame as jpeg using virtualdub then use adobe imageready & "import folder as frames". You can get a free trial of photoshop which I think still includes imageready.

That'd be an assload of frames Sam.

I tried Gif Movie Gear.

Works well except when I create the gif - no matter what I do [adjusting frame delays etc.] I get a slow motion gif rather than normal speed. ><

Ahhh, figured it out, GIF's don't like alot of frames and seem to play slowly even at the lowest timing setting when there's an assload of frames.

last edited by Loki at 01:18:29 19/Jun/07

That's because movies play at 25 frames per second, so 25 of your individual frames go by every second. Try removing a few frames. I start by deleting every 2nd frame.
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/4246/sway2ir7.gif

that´s a pretty jerky gif whoop

hehe i put jerk in where there´s pictures of attractive women!

stop using that f***ing fake apostrophe

and I don't care if its jerky it's 1:40am and it took me all of 30 seconds to make.

Yeah I don't know why.
But what I basically did was : Remove 3 frames, then optimise, then remove 2 frames. then optimise (brought it down to like 800k from 3mb).
Anyway, it played slow-motion in windows default viewer (when double-clicking the gif)
But in both Firefox and IE it plays at a relatively normal speed to me (not quite as smooth as the AVI due to missing frames obviously but yeah).

You can import avi's straight into adobe image ready and convert it to a gif whoop you nub.

^^ not if the avi is 2 hours long as with that gif I made above you nub (well you probably could but why the f*** import a 2 hour avi just for 2 seconds of video?)

Who said its 2 f***ing hours long tard

good work whoop

1meg gif with like 5 frames, newb

best advice in this thread is to not do what whoop did

You can import avi's straight into adobe image ready and convert it to a gif whoop you nub

yep... just cut your movie up using the one of the many quick movie editors around.. hell windows movie maker will do the job, then import and play with the frames and then your done.
the longer *bigger file size* of the footage the longer photoshop takes to convert and dont be suprised if it hangs. but it works and its the easiest way.

For making animated gif grom video you can try VidGif by geovid. I used this software and it works fine for me. I tried to do little animated avatar in Photoshop Image ready and I have spended a lot of time and it works not good.