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All freeware animated gif solution
Anonymous
Comment too long. lol. OK, fine.
So, you want to make animated .gifs, and have no money? FEAR NOT. I have the solution.
Chances are the images you want are from a movie file on your PC. Grab virtualdub so you can open that file. Get virtualdub-mpeg2, which lets you open mpeg2 (i.e. decoded dvd) files. http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/
(If you happen to have a wmv or asf or mov file, well, virtualdub really can't open those. wmv and asf because Micro$oft owns teh patent, and although virtualdub USED to be able to do it, they got sent a C&D and can no longer. So to work with those, you can convert them. Might degrade quality a tad, but, come on, yer making an animated gif, so it doesn't need THAT good of a quality. ;) To convert, grab Super. THE best video convertor available anywhere. AND its free! http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html )
Now you have your images. To animate, then, I normally use unfreez. Of course, that program only accepts .gif images. And I have jpegs.
So, I need to convert from jpg to gif. I open up irfanview, which is also free. I go into batch conversion, and away I go. Zoom! http://www.irfanview.com/
Then I load up the images in unfreez, http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/ which is also free, tell it to loop, set animation delay, then tell it to make gif. And, walla, animated gif.
Oh, but it seems a bit large. Damn, I gotta fix that.
There's Trout's Gif Optimizer. http://chemware.co.nz/tgo.htm Free, also. And does a pretty good job of shrinking the file down. I found a program called gifsicle, from *nix, but as yet I can't get it to even optimize a file. :\
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