So it seems they're lots of posts by people making threads asking for gif creation advice, so in the spirit of anon helping anon post your tips, tricks and programs in this thread.If you dont already have PhotoShop and ImageReady then download them here:http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/861023/Adobe_Photoshop_Pro_CS2_v9_0_Full_ISO_WORKING_Keygen (you will need a program like DeamonTools or AH120% to mount it)The other essential element is Vdub. This is freeware that will allow you to capture a sequence of frames form an avi. You can download it here, http://www.virtualdub.org/.Once you have these two programs you can convert any avi movie into a gif fairly easily. Just open an avi in Vdub select the frames you want to save then open them in ImageReady, make what ever edits you want and save it. Now your gif is ready for a massive saging by anon.Of course getting your desired content into avi formant for Vdub can be troublesome at times so here are some more programs that have helped me in the past..DVD Decrypter (http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/): freeware that will let you rip DVDs into a series of VOB files.VOBMerge (http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/showsoftware_vobmerge_108.html): freeware that will let you merge VOB files and cut out all the crap like menus, extras and portions of the movie you dont need.Comment too long. Clickhereto view the full text.
Note that Vdub and Vdubmod do NOT work with WMV files, so you'll have to use another program to grab the screens.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools?convert=WMV%20to%20AVI
Is there any animation program that is similar to MS Paint, and allows you to make a frame transparent, draw over it, make that one transparet, draw over it, etc.?
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Camtasia is also good, u can export to gif