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The Thinker
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(, Sat 17 May 2003, 10:19, archived)
woo!but that really doesn't need to be 150k... if you need help with optimization, feel free to ask. :-)
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Sat 17 May 2003, 10:22,
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ThanxNew to this - just finding my way - than you for the pointers.
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Sat 17 May 2003, 10:28,
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that's alrightre: optimizing animations - what program are you using to do them?
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Sat 17 May 2003, 10:30,
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Corel........mind you. Slim uses Corel, so it can't all be bad
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5olly,
Sat 17 May 2003, 10:35,
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Coral 8I use.
I find it very good...
...can't get to grips with Adobe yet!
(I find it very good...
...can't get to grips with Adobe yet!
Ravenblack All the good quotes have gone,
Sat 17 May 2003, 11:52,
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umi have absolutely no idea about corel ;-)
in general though, you can do a few things to reduce anim file sizes...
1 --> some programs do this automatically, but i don't know about corel. if you have an anim like that one above where there isn't much changing in the image, you can just set the basic picture as the first image and then the changed bit as the second. what i mean by this, in ref. to the anim above, is to have the full picture for the first frame, but only the shorts for the 2nd. this way there's less new data to load, and the filesize comes down massively.
2 --> reduce size (bear in mind that if you want something to have a chance of going on the frontpage it can be no wider than 280 pixels (see the faq)
3 --> reduce colour depth (number of colours used. it's often suprising how much you can take this down by without significant loss of quality.
4 --> reduce/remove dithering - the little patterns of different colours that the software uses to give the impression of a colour that isn't in the palette.
5 --> remove frames. but that's only relevant in animations with lots of motion anyway.
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Sat 17 May 2003, 10:41,
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in general though, you can do a few things to reduce anim file sizes...
1 --> some programs do this automatically, but i don't know about corel. if you have an anim like that one above where there isn't much changing in the image, you can just set the basic picture as the first image and then the changed bit as the second. what i mean by this, in ref. to the anim above, is to have the full picture for the first frame, but only the shorts for the 2nd. this way there's less new data to load, and the filesize comes down massively.
2 --> reduce size (bear in mind that if you want something to have a chance of going on the frontpage it can be no wider than 280 pixels (see the faq)
3 --> reduce colour depth (number of colours used. it's often suprising how much you can take this down by without significant loss of quality.
4 --> reduce/remove dithering - the little patterns of different colours that the software uses to give the impression of a colour that isn't in the palette.
5 --> remove frames. but that's only relevant in animations with lots of motion anyway.
So kindof you to take the time to help here - I will certainly heed your advice - and learn the program in a bit more depth. Thanks again to you.
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Sat 17 May 2003, 10:44,
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that's quite alright.you've got a good attitude - too many people come on here and don't listen to any of the advice that people offer. you seem to be 'shopping pretty well as it is so i'm sure you'll go far :-)
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Sat 17 May 2003, 10:49,
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I use RAVE and Photopainttogether - if you create the anim in RAVE then export it as an AVI, open it in Photopaint, then re-export it as a GIF, for some reason it optimises mugh better than simply exporting to GIF straight from RAVE.
Unless I'm using RAVE wrongly...
(Unless I'm using RAVE wrongly...
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Sat 17 May 2003, 11:35,
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Sat 17 May 2003, 10:23,
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Sat 17 May 2003, 10:25,
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