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Hey /gif/, whats the best tool to use to make animated GIF's from .avi's? I offer a gif of an evil boomerang wielding hobo.
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My method using free software goes:
1. grab frames with something (I use AvidMux, since virtualdub hates my codecs)
2. Open first frame in Gimp. Open remaining frames (in reverse order, Gimp processes them from top to bottom, so you want last frame first) as layers.
3. Save as gif, select save as animation.
4. Done.

You can optimize everything by going through and getting rid of duplicate frames and scaling the image and changing the speed, but that's usually how I do it. Not an all in one solution, but it takes under 5 minutes to do a 4chan size gif once you get the hang of it. Example included.
>> Anonymous
>>418871
He hit a bad man in the head, he isn't evil!
>> Anonymous
>>419181
The gif still needs to be optimized by getting rid of reused pixels. I don't know a goof free program that does that though. But it can cut it down even more.
>> Anonymous
>>419235
>>getting rid of duplicate frames
It's not that hard. I do it by hand before I even start doing the gif. Just open the series of frames up in image viewer of choice and scroll through them, deleting dupes as I go.
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>>419237
Actually I meant pixels. I'm sure you've seen a few frames in gifs that are black with little speckles everywhere? It works great for anime because things rarely change. See attached pic as a good example, look at the frames.