YouTube clip -> animated gif

[raz1337]

I'm trying to make an animated gif of a clip from a Pokemon episode recently.

I came up with this:



But it has the black bars on it, and it's 2.5MB. At its normal resolution, it was 5 MB. I was using download helper to get stuff off Youtube. I took the original clip off YouTube with Downloadhelper and that managed to become an flv with no black bars. I converted that to an AVI. Then I used Windows Movie Maker Live to edit the video and SUPER to convert to an animated gif.

Is the aspect ratio messing up when coming from Youtube through downloadhelper this time?

I have the clip here on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc4qAoF9I8w

Any help?

[jagabo]

I would use VirtualDub for that. Easy to crop and control the aspect ratio and frame size. Cropped, resized to 320x180, levels adjusted, decimated to 5 fps, saved as animated GIF. About 1.5 MB. Less noise, more posterization. You can add noise to reduce the posterization but then the file will get bigger.

[raz1337]

Awesome, thanks!