Animated GIF help please!

[dingo]

Hey guys,

I had a video taken of a certain red Mitsubish Evo 8 MR doing smoking 'nuts this morning and I would like to convert the video file (.mp4) to an animated GIF I can use as an avatar....

Anyone capable of doing this for me?

I would need a portion of the video cut and then converted.

Please let me know if you can give me a hand and I'll PM you. :D

Thanks alot!

[MIHALS]

yes I can, but I'm at work now and will be available in about 5 hours from now :? :wink:

[ARMAN]

theres "123 avi to gif converter" proggie I have used which is pretty simple the only thing you need to convert vid to avi if its in other format 8)

[MIHALS]

I can't fucking make it run :bah: :x - tried 3 converters, converted to avi and the ImageReady is still giving me blank gifs :(
sorry mate, I give up. have no idea why is it playing with me :x :(

if someone else wants to help, here's the PM I got from dingo:

Download original video from here: http://ozcarsightings.com/evoskid.mp4

Then if you could create 2 seperate GIFS (under 24kb each if possible?)

One by using the 00:12 - 00:17 sec portion of the video and the second using the 00.21 - 00:27 portion of the video.

[Minacious]

I'll do it. Minacious is the god of animated gifs. Making them 24kb will be impossible though. A gif that small would only contain a few frames.

[Minacious]

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/59/dingo01gs5.gif
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9640/dingo02zr8.gif

[philip]

I'm impressed.

[dingo]

Thanks Minacious - appreciated!! :D

Mihals, thanks for your efforts too.

[dingo]

Actually, would it be possible for you to cut out some of the frames in the 2nd avatar (circle work :P ) to get it around 20kb?

Would it still look ok?

[Minacious]

Actually, would it be possible for you to cut out some of the frames in the 2nd avatar (circle work :P ) to get it around 20kb?

Would it still look ok?

Haha, do you know how small of a file 20kb is? :D :D

I will play with it. Why so small?

[saadie]

20 kb will be totally useless :P



I had a video taken of a certain red Mitsubish Evo 8 MR

haha :mrgreen: 8) 8)

[MIHALS]

Haha, do you know how small of a file 20kb is? :D :D

I will play with it. Why so small?

which proggies did you use Minacious? I was really pissed off last night when it didn't want to get working :(

thanx!

[Minacious]

Any video software would have worked. The key was to convert the MP4 into an image sequence (since that's all a gif is) rather than a movie file then edit it as needed.

[dingo]

Actually, would it be possible for you to cut out some of the frames in the 2nd avatar (circle work :P ) to get it around 20kb?

Would it still look ok?

Haha, do you know how small of a file 20kb is? :D :D

I will play with it. Why so small?

Because a few local forums limit avatar size to 20kb (for some reason), I would like to use it on there.

If you remove a few frames and use less colours or something it might be possible?

Thanks. :D

EDIT: even if its 50kb that;ll do, I'll sort something out.

[MIHALS]

Any video software would have worked. The key was to convert the MP4 into an image sequence (since that's all a gif is) rather than a movie file then edit it as needed.

well, what I did:
converted the movie to the avi, then tried to make it a gif in the ImageReady, which gave me only blank frames instead of the sequention. I guess the converter didn't work it out propperly :bah:

[Minacious]

well, what I did:
converted the movie to the avi, then tried to make it a gif in the ImageReady, which gave me only blank frames instead of the sequention. I guess the converter didn't work it out propperly :bah:

Let me guess, those blank frames were white, right?




Getting smaller. Still trying to get it down in size but still be clear enough to enjoy. I shrank the visual size of the gif, removed some image quality, and deleted some frames.

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/3568/dingodb8.gif

If I make it very tiny is goes right below the 20kb limit, but you can barely make out the car, so that won't work.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/9153/dingo2ds0.gif

[saadie]

i tried .. but my computer got pissed off haha ..
celeron's are gay :(