total newbie question- convert real short dv to gif animatio

[sirN]

Allright, don't yell. I amy not even have a clue what I'm talking about here, but what I want to do is take a short looped dv or mov file (mac) and convert it to one of those gf animated files to be used on the web. Is there a way to do this? Or am I even more confused than I was when I first woke up this morning?

[scottoinkingsburg]

Here is how I would approach this situation. If the video is a quicktime .MOV file I would use mov2avi to convert it to a AVI file. The I would use virtualdub to select all or part of the video that I want to use and then save it as a sequence of bitmap images. Then I would use a program like Paint Shop Pro to convert the bitmaps to gif images. Now remember, gifs allows only 256 colors, so the images might look like crap. Then from there I would use a gif animation tool such as Animagic Gif to create the animated gif file. Thats how I would approach this problem. Good Luck! Scotto

[thecoalman]

Most Gif animation programs will do this. Just import the video and export as gif.

Here's one that will: http://www.ulead.com/ga/runme.htm

Personally I would use flash instead of gif for web animations perticularly if they are going to long.

[sirN]

thanks.

[Capmaster]

If the DV has an AVI extension, open it in Adobe Image Ready 7. Edit if desired ...save out as animated GIF

That's what I used for this and many other animations I use here. I captured from the desktop in Camstudio first: