export to gif animation

Agent · Post by **Agent** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:24 am

it would be a great feature to export little animations to gif

red hamster · Post by **red hamster** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:24 pm

Agree.

Benvindo · Post by **Benvindo** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:01 pm

Yes,
Would be nice.

spasmodic_cheese · Post by **spasmodic_cheese** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:36 pm

hahaha god knows the internet could always use more gifs

nobudget · Post by **nobudget** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:32 pm

I remember when programs stopped supporting Gif because of copyrights and licensing costs. If that still is the case I wouldn't hold my breath...And I have to agree with Spacmodic Cheese in the sarcasm department. I don't see much purpose for Gif these days, there are better formats available.

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:04 pm

spasmodic_cheese wrote:hahaha god knows the internet could always use more gifs

I agree, there are tons of really bad animated gifs out there:

http://www.gifs.net/animate/pageholidayc.htm

But maybe this is our chance to turn the web around? Create some really nice ones? After all, we are animators!

In another thread, Benvindo made an animated gif from a still that pixelwks had created:

http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1474

This is the high-quality sort of thing that we can do to replace the negative image of animated gifs.

To start, how about our avatars here? Hey LM, how about increasing the maximum avatar size so we can put animated gifs in our avatars?

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:12 pm

nobudget wrote:I remember when programs stopped supporting Gif because of copyrights and licensing costs. If that still is the case I wouldn't hold my breath...And I have to agree with Spacmodic Cheese in the sarcasm department. I don't see much purpose for Gif these days, there are better formats available.

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

The Unisys GIF patent expired a couple of years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Unisys ... nforcement

Unfortunately, if you are creating content for the web and need an alpha channel, you are stuck with gifs because the browser of the majority (Internet Explorer) doesn't do transparent PNGs properly.

So, even though this is 2005, I had been creating a website and in order for it to render properly on all browsers, had to use a GIF. Unfortunately, there is still a place for them.

This, of course, is not nearly as important as our conversation about how animated gifs on the web suck.

jorgy

bupaje · Post by **bupaje** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:22 pm

Until IE fixes the PNG thing you might be interested in this page linking to a couple sites with workarounds.

http://www.playingwithfire.com/test/png ... /demo.html

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:42 pm

bupaje wrote:Until IE fixes the PNG thing you might be interested in this page linking to a couple sites with workarounds.

http://www.playingwithfire.com/test/png ... /demo.html

Hey, thanks for the link.