How to Make Animated GIF

[JeffM]

I want to take a large size MPEG-2 video recorded from TV and make it into a much smaller
animated GIF. How would I do this? What tools would I need?

[Baldrick]

virtualdub-mpeg2 and save as image sequence, open in a gif animation tool like animation shop, adobe photoshop imageready

or read
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=233640&highlight=

[JeffM]

Thanks, I will take a look at virtualdub-mpeg2 .

[JeffM]

Just a quick question. I see the File -> Save image sequence... in VirtualDub-MPEG 1.611,
and I was able to export out as a sequence of TGA files. It loaded my MPEG-2 without problems.

Does this program have to ability to do a batch frame resize of 704x480 to something
smaller? Or does ImageReady have a batch resize option?

[JeffM]

Found it!

Video -> Filters -> Add -> Resize

[JeffM]

Is there a way to automatically import like 100 TGAs as animation frames into ImageReady?

It seems you have to add each frame by hand. If there's no way to add multiple images
then ImageReady is not very good at all.

[Baldrick]

file->import->folder as frames?
http://www.heathrowe.com/tuts/importasframes.asp

you can also import avi in imageready, so you could convert to avi with virtualdub-mpeg2...don't know what video codecs it supports though.

[JeffM]

Found it again! This option is kinda not-so-obvious. Had to dig through the help files:

File -> Import -> Folder As Frames...

[Baldrick]

i found it using gooooooogle....imageready import image sequence

[JeffM]

Thanks, I missed your post by 1 second. All I have is one question and I'm done.
The GIF created by ImageReady is too slow. Is there a way to speed it up?

All frames are already set at (0 sec/No Delay).

[JeffM]

Well, I thought I could speed it up by deleting every other frame, but now, not only does it still
look slow, it looks choppy as well.

Maybe I have to go back to VirtualDub and speed it up there? 2x faster?