OT: Using Vegas to make animated Gif's

LarryP wrote on 6/22/2004, 5:31 PM

For what it’s worth I found that Vegas great for creating small (60 by 60) animated gifs of a logo.

I started with a 60 by 60 project, square pixels, 12fps and dropped a 300by 300 tiff on the timeline. 3D motion was used to zoom into the logo and tumble it. Rendered it to an uncompressed avi file and used the Animation Shop that comes with PSP to convert the avi to a gif. The resulting file was 10k and looked rather nice.

A little different use for Vegas but fun just the same.

Larry

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Nathan_Shane wrote on 6/22/2004, 5:42 PM

Hey, I was just trying this exact scenerio a couple minutes ago. Though I was using Ulead GIF Animator. I had noticed that the examples of Bluff Titler on their website were AVI converted to animated GIF, which makes for much better looking examples visually.

I have some Bluff Titler examples I've created to share with everyone and I've been experimenting with MOV, WMV, and (animated) GIF as the delivery format, and the GIF stills wins hands-down for best looking, but that goes without saying because of the format. Only downside really is that I've got to watch the overall length of my AVI examples or else to GIF's are too large.

Nervertheless, I still end up removing some of the individual frames from Ulead to get the GIF file size down even further.

Grazie wrote on 6/22/2004, 11:56 PM

EXCELLENT news .. ! Ok, it may not be news to everybody, but it was to me . .I should have realised this .. I too have Animation Shop .. I'll give it a go ..

THANK YOU !

Grazie

LarryP wrote on 6/23/2004, 3:35 AM

BTw Animation Workshop requires type 1 avi's.

Chienworks wrote on 6/23/2004, 3:39 AM

I do this all the time too. The difference is that i use the old Viscosity program to convert the .avi files to .gif. The file sizes i get out of it are sometimes surprisingly small.

Just for fun, i once converted the "breakfast" scene from "Shrek" to a 80x60 4fps .gif file and the result was only about 4MB. It made a cool icon on my desktop!