Avi2Gif

[Fire Foxer]

how can i convert avi to gif without losing too much quality?
so far i was using total video converter but the result was crap
is there any something better?
10x

[jagabo]

VirtualDub has the ability to export as animated GIF. You will lose some quality as animated GIF only supports 256 colors.

[Fire Foxer]

in VD it come out more crummy then anything

[jagabo]

It probably has to do with how the 256 colors are chosen for the animated GIF. Some programs use a fixed palette spread evenly across the 16 million possible RGB colors. Others try to optimize for the particular animation. In animated GIFs you should avoid smooth gradients and the use of lots of colors.

[Fire Foxer]

yea just i saw someone that made very cool and loseless quality animated signature
and he took it from some movie
and the animation is png format! how in earth could it be?

[jagabo]

Animated PNG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG

[Fire Foxer]

ok but how can i do it? can i do apng in flash?
and here is some animated gif with much more than 256 colors.
how come?

[jagabo]

That animated GIF has only 256 colors. They are just well chosen colors and well dithered.

APNG project (editor): http://animatedpng.com/

[MaxSt]

You can export to APNG:

http://vdubapngmod.sourceforge.net/

[Baldrick]

Note that apng might not work in all browsers.

Example: