Animated Gif Maker

[budwzr]

Looks like animated gif software is non existent now. The Ulead product got swallowed up by Corel. Does anybody know a good utility for making gifs?

[poisondeathray]

A free way is vdub. File=>export => animated gif

[budwzr]

A free way is vdub. File=>export => animated gif

Oh, very good, thanks. Is that what you used on yours?

[poisondeathray]

No, I used an old version of this:
http://www.blumentals.net/egifan/

I had it around from the old days, when people actually used animated gifs

But I used AE to generate the image sequence

The reason I used that instead of AE or vdub for the gif's is it does a better job with dithering. It makes small filesizes with ok quality (for a gif)

Are we having a "gif-off" ?

[budwzr]

Hahaha, well you got me remembering the good old days, and I was thinking it's kind of a dead art form now, and I like to work in mediums that most people are clueless in.

Let me get geared up and get some "good stuff" ready, hehehe, and I suggest you do the same. Prepare to joust!!! doot-dah-dooooo!!!

P.S. That blumentals looks pretty good, I'll just buy it. Heck, it's only $20.

[poisondeathray]

That's what I though back in the day. It was easy to use. But I think it was $10 back then. Looks like they added some other features

It had a bug though, it would import the 1st image in the wrong order, so you had to go manually re-adjust the 1st pic. Maybe they fixed it by now.

The other software I used to use for animated gifs was Adobe ImageReady - I don' t think they make that anymore

[budwzr]

Before I pay, I'll check out that "bug", thanks for the heads up.

Corel took over the Ulead product, which seemed to be popular at one time, but Corel rolled into one of their paint products and I just want the utility itself. I can make my own image sequences.

There's a "pro" version for $40 that lets you make a clickable gif, with a hyperlink, that sounds kind of useful.

Hey, another quick question. Since so many people are running adblockers and scriptblockers, do they affect gifs?

[poisondeathray]

Hey, another quick question. Since so many people are running adblockers and scriptblockers, do they affect gifs?

Good question . I don't know. Were you running a blocker when looking at the other page with the animated gifs ?

I think most adblockers affect SWF and FLV's wrapped in SWF - so those flash banner ads at the top of pages, not GIF's. Another difference might be those were uploaded to this website as attachments. There might be a distinction. Not sure


You're right about the "lost art" comment. We're spoiled these days with high bandwidth and video embedding - Just throw it on youtube. I forgot how hard it was to make an optimized animation with small filesize, brings you back to the days when most folks were still on dialup

[aedipuss]

a couple others - .net gif animate, gif construction set, easy gif animator. there are some web based ones also.

[poisondeathray]

I can see avatars, like aedipuss's gif avatar with firefox's adblock , so maybe they are exempt at default settings ?

[aedipuss]

animated gifs aren't in any way related to popups or scripts. they are just a series of pictures displayed serially in the same place.

[budwzr]

Yes, I always have script and ad block on, but the gifs didn't have embedded links, and they just ran fine.

It's definitely an art form. On another post here, somebody referenced http://senorgif.memebase.com/page/2/ , so I took a look, and yeah, it's cool.

[budwzr]

I can see avatars, like aedipuss's gif avatar with firefox's adblock , so maybe they are exempt at default settings ?

Hmmm....looks like AnimGif's might be a "new" way to go.