Making .gif for web page

randyvild2 wrote on 3/15/2004, 3:03 PM

In Vegas I made a very short video that has looping capabilities. I want to place this on my web page but web master wants a gif file. How do I do this?

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Liam_Vegas wrote on 3/15/2004, 3:20 PM

How short is "very short"? A gif file is an image format that is not usually appropriate for displaying a video.

Vegas cannot directly save a video as an animated GIF image.

You would have to save each frame of the video as an image file (there is a script available to do this) and then create the animated gif using another program (such as Adobe Image Ready).

musicvid10 wrote on 3/15/2004, 8:43 PM

I take an AVI clip, render it at 3 or 6 frames per sec., then render as an animated gif in Premiere. Here's an example (give it time to load):
ftp://shell.dimensional.com/users/musicvid/pub/movies/tick.gif

BillyBoy wrote on 3/15/2004, 9:46 PM

You need to answer the how short is short question first. For quality if not that big a file use the Microsoft video format. Animated GIFS are getting old and the quality isn't that great unless...

The latest version of Photoshop (version CS) has a much improved version of Image Ready included that makes high quality Animated GIFS using indexed colors of low color depth (if you want) so file size can be kept down. You can easily adjust each frame. Instead of dropping frame rate so low drop color depth and keep frame rate around 12-15 for smoother playback.