Optimised to illegibility. Looked much better, but came out at 750K!
Can anyone tell me how a series of 14 25k .jpegs become a 750K animated GIF? Is there a workaround I'm missing?
Edit: Kindly optimised by Gruffi - Thanks.
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Can anyone tell me how a series of 14 25k .jpegs become a 750K animated GIF? Is there a workaround I'm missing?
Edit: Kindly optimised by Gruffi - Thanks.
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( , Thu 12 Jan 2012, 10:50, archived)
it's the fade
it causes virtually every single pixel in your image to change in every single frame
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 10:52,
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I would agree with this
if you didn't do the fade it would work out much smaller in file size.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:12,
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Thanks.
I just assumed that as I'd saved each layer as a 25k file, reassembling them would be about 350K.
Didn't realise GIFs end up much bigger!
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:23,
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Didn't realise GIFs end up much bigger!
It's not about each frame but the blending between frames the more pixels that constantly change
the heavier the filesize I can't remember the name of the b3tard but he does those silhouette animations which have a massive canvas size but are extremely small on filesize because the only moving parts are the silhouettes which are usually smaller on the canvas this is a prime example of gif optimisation.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:27,
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this started as a 20k file and ended up 344k with the snow effect
it's the amount of pixel movement, it ramps up the file size
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:31,
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it is
but it's possibly unhappy at being called Untitled.gif and has therefore started binge-eating and that's why it is so big
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 10:55,
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Thanks. Took most of last night!
Thought it seemed more on message with the compo though, I'll upload the unoptimised one to the parody site probably.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 10:55,
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post a link to your psd and see if any of us can optimise it better
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:03,
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what package did you create it in?
psd is the photoshop file format
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:08,
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I've put it on shared mobile me:
https://files.me.com/wd.goodier/yrbvem
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:08,
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I don't understand why this should be a legal concern
nor can visualise how it would ever end up in court
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:12,
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Yes it's not like loads of comedies that have parodied stuff have ended up contesting copyright
imagine Blackadder in court contesting the copyright infringement of WW1 haha now there's a compo entry ;)
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:14,
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I'm imagining it now, with judge Melchitt presiding
and Baldrick in the witness stand
Edit: Just seen your reply to me last night about the b3tards uploader. Thanks!
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:18,
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Edit: Just seen your reply to me last night about the b3tards uploader. Thanks!
You're welcome, puzzled me at first then it just dawned on me
the url to your uploads wasn't to b3tards - but even b3tards doesn't have a working delete button as yet :(
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:21,
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you have to reupload an image with the same filename to overwrite it
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:45,
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Yes I was explain that yesterday but Miss Chapeau
wasn't able to do that and we couldn't work out why then after seeing that I was using b3tards and she wasn't it made sense.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:55,
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Ah, Life of Brian then
the Church would be outraged if such a film was ever made
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:18,
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Absolutely!
"This Brian bloke is obviously a copyright infringement of Jesus!" :D
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:20,
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Something about it being backed by some organisation
who want to ensure our right to parody isn't untarnished, as if it ever was anyway. The whole point of parody is that you're poking fun at something, governments have been toppled by parodies and in some way the fact that often it can be legally borderline makes it funnier to the nth degree. Imagine V for Vendetta where the corrupt Government can't take any action against the Stephen Fry Tv comedian character - rather pointless I would say. But if this bill goes through we can have an open day on The Artist Former Known as Squiggle who wouldn't be able to do a thing about it because it's "parody"
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:32,
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As I see it
companies will try to leverage their intellectual property rights (copyright, trademarks, etc.) to attempt to take down stuff they don't like from the Internet.
As most web hosting providers are either a) feeble and gutless b) can't be bothered checked whether material is genuinely infringing,
they will take down material without much of a fight. After all, as a hosting provider which will you care more about -
a single customer paying £3.50 a year for cheapo hosting or the potential cost of court proceedings?
So companies simply use IP law and the chilling effect of a cease & desist letter to attack stuff they don't like.
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Thu 12 Jan 2012, 11:47,
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As most web hosting providers are either a) feeble and gutless b) can't be bothered checked whether material is genuinely infringing,
they will take down material without much of a fight. After all, as a hosting provider which will you care more about -
a single customer paying £3.50 a year for cheapo hosting or the potential cost of court proceedings?
So companies simply use IP law and the chilling effect of a cease & desist letter to attack stuff they don't like.