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Converting videos to gifs Delibird
Hey, does anyone know a good way to convert videos (avi, mp4, mkv, mov, wmv, etc) to animated .gifs? I've been fiddling with avidemux, and have managed to cut mkvs down to the relevant bits, but don't know what format to put them in so that I could convert them to .gifs.

I ask, because, you know, it would be awesome if I could do that for myself or on request.

Pic is from scene I'm trying to gifify, from himekishi lilia vol 4.
>> Delibird
Ope, just kidding, I'm terrible at this, and the cut-down .mkvs look like shit.
>> Audovoice
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well... unsurprisingly you need to convert the video clips to gifs. As in many still frame gif images. Because I am gay for "Bink and Smaker" that is what I use. It is free for NONcomersial use. It is expensive and is still used comersialy for playing videos in some games. The Witcher is the last one I remember seeing.
Once you have it in a .avi or .mpg you are good to go.
>> Audovoice
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<-pretty self explanatory. I highlighted the important points. You can start with a whole movie and calculate how many frames in you should start and at how many frames you should stop. But my test clip is small.
>> Audovoice
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<-you need to change the output type
I am taking a wile because I am actually make a gif. It has been a wile.
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
Link is bink video

also you could try gif ninja to make gifs
http://www.gifninja.com/
there has got to be a better site than that ti make gif with out a program but that is the only one I know.
>> Audovoice
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<-ok I adjusted the frame rate from 30 to 15.
<- I put the frame range to 4 because I knew there were some junk frames at the beginning of the clip and because I put in no value for end it did the rest of the video.
<- I halved the size by scaling. (just note that it is pixels and not %)
<-last adjustment was pallet.I don't know what settings are best but I set it to come up with a new palet every one frames.
>> Audovoice
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<- next you get this wile it is converting.
>> Anonymous
>>1023898
do a google search for SUPER (C) and if you find the website for a FREE converter that is the one. IT is simple o use and it converts shit loads for stuff
>> Eponymous !RYpZ/TNwKk
Audovoice, you are my sunshine...
>> audovoice
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it took me all morning but here is a gif
>> audovoice
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a little bigger
I used EASY GIF Animator
to do the actual merging into one gif.
It had a error on my system that made it freeze and display an error message when the size of the pictures gets to big. So you canmake the frames smaller or use less frames.

CoffeeCup
I had no problem adding any number of files but the pallet it used at the end was not custom so the image quality was very poor.

With both these have a quirk in the adding of images. It used a frame order based on the order that the images were selected in. Because it defalts to the view of list, selecting 1-100 throws the order out of wack. Switch view to details and drag selection from frame 1 to your last frame.
>> aNONYMOUS
>>1024192
What movie is that?
>> Anonymous
1. If the video is in mkv format, get mkvtoolnix and mkvextractgui, and split the video stream into an avi. (If you get a .H264 file after the extraction, get avc2avi mod and use it to convert that file to avi. Be sure to set the framerate to match the original video's. See readme.txt.)

2. Open the avi with VirtualDub. Find your desired starting frame and set it as the start of your selection (press Home key). Find the desired ending frame and set it as the end (press End key). File -> Export as an image sequence in bmp or png format.[1]

3. Look through the resulting files with an image viewer and delete the duplicate frames.

4. In Irfanview, choose File -> Batch Conversion/Rename. Select the bmp/png frames, Add them to the batch list, and choose to convert to gif. Also set the advanced options to resize, crop, sharpen, etc. as desired. Run the batch-conversion.

5. Open UnFREEz. In Windows Explorer, select all the newly-generated gif frames (highlight the last frame, then hold shift and select the first frame). Drag and drop them into UnFREEz. Set your options and create an animated gif. This is the first draft, which has uniform play-speed.[2]

6. Open the gif with MS Gif Animator to adjust the play-speeds of various sections to your liking.[3]


[1]: VirtualDub can export to animated gif directly, but the result will be huge since it doesn't resize the image or remove duplicate frames.

[2]: The reason you need UnFREEz is because MS Gif Animator always sorts the frames backward when you drag-drop in more than one at a time. A bug that'll never see a fix, sadly.

[3]: Irfanview has a bug where it plays animated gifs too slowly. Windows Picture & Fax viewer has a bug where it won't finish playing long animated gifs. Use MS Gif Animator or a browser to check the play speed.
>> EchelonV
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- VLC player, slow video down, manually capture images.
- Imageready.

That's how I make all of mine. True story.

Every single gif you see here I made using this sloppy method.
http://www.anonib.com/_qualityh/index.php?b=13
>> EchelonV
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Yeeeeeehaaaaaaa.
>> Anonymous
If you can extract frames to individual GIF files, you can use gifsicle (http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/) to assemble them into an animated GIF file. Yes, there's a Windows version, it works fine.
>> EchelonV
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>>1023898
Good luck OP and happy birthday.
>> EchelonV
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>>1024539
Reminds me I still need to post all my Lilia gifs there. Might do so later...
>> Core !JD2r9bRTlg
So does anyone here know if some company state sides has picked up this series, or is going to?
>> EchelonV
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>>1024628
Pixy-Soft material ... very unlikely to be picked up outside of Japan anytime soon, sadly.

I basically hear it's risky for them, which is totally believable. They aren't the biggest h-anime company out there, only releasing on episode of something every month. And they've made statements before stating that they're pleased with online distribution via dlsite, etc.

It's believable. They're still a young company, a little over 2 years old. I think someday we might see some of their stuff picked up. Licensing outside of Japan seems slow as hell in general anyways, especially when it comes to tentacle/monster material. You wouldn't believe how surprised I was when I saw Night When Evil Falls get licensed.
>> aNONYMOUS
>>1024172
>>1024192
Soooo... anyone knows what movie are these 2 above?
>> Anonymous
>>1024552
Sauce?
>> Anonymous
>>1024783
It's one of the Himekishi Lilia video's, I ont remember which one it was though.
>> aNONYMOUS
>>1024172
>>1024192
How about these 2 little futa GIF's? anyone knows where they come from?
>> EchelonV
>>1024783
brb, gonna go fucking kill myself.
>> Friendsofsandwiches
Jesus, this thread needs archiving. I'm saving it for the info therein. Helps me buttloads, and not just the dick in the ass type.
>> Anonymous
if you've already got what you want as a .avi, just pipe it through "microsoft gif editor". i'm not shitting you, it's a real program and it can do avi -> gif.
>> Anonymous
>>1024949
One of the Sexual Fantasy Kingdoms...the third one, I believe.
>> Anonymous
has any one else made new content?
>> Core !JD2r9bRTlg
>>1024664

Ah appreciate the response.

The reason I asked is because, when I was looking at some of the .gifs/pics posted here, bible black came to mind. And I know it's state side so this is why I asked.(Just in case you were curious)

Again, Thanks for the reply. I also hope this "Pixy-Soft" company matures and grows and expands their business.
>> Anonymous
What series is the Op's pic?

http://orz.4chan.org/d/src/1219145523015.png