Ask the Experts / Making animated .gif's

I would like to know how I can make animated gif's from rct2 videofootage made with Hypercam, I have no clue where to start with what program. Can any of the smart guys on this area help me out a bit? 

Thanks in advance, 

- Cena. 

download paint shop pro (from jasc) or photoshop cs.
they both have editors for animated gifs (seperate program).
I believe the photoshop version is called imageready
and the paint shop version is called animation shop.
you can just load your avi file there (as you would a image) and it will convert it to raw frames. often you can select a frames per second.
then its a matter of deleting frames if you want and settings some parameters (depending on your program).

probally it can be done with other programs also, but I expect you have one of these programs.

i think there is a simple little program called unfreeze or something like that?

google it... you need another program to rip a vid into each frame and turn each frame into a gif and I can't remember what I used for that... it was super easy though

Edited by Milo, 18 January 2010 - 06:25 PM.

Yeah, it's unfreez...no e and it is super easy.

lol, was asking CP6 and gee about this today.

Any way to convert a video clip into a animated .gif?

^ there may be a way to do that but I mostly saw things that make animated gifs from raw gif images put together in a row... like a flip book

it's really not that hard to find a program that rips all the frames from a short vid and converts all the images produced (anywhere from 50-100 I'd guess) into a gif... then use unfreez (thanks kong) to merge them all. It's a simple click and drag the file names into the box... just all the gif frames in order and then a 1 click merge

the hardest part of mine was when I clipped a certain chunk off the top of each frame to get rid of the hypercam logo thing from the final animation but even that can be easy if you figure the new pixel dimensions and do it on paint

like I said. just use animation shop or something like that.
you can load the avi file and it converts it to a gif automaticly.
you can use a pan command on all frames at ones to remove the hypercam logo (or just get a licensed version of hypercam.

I used imageready for the first RCT-Guide movie.

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