I use the GIMP for gif animation optimizingsimple steps:
1. make your GIF with max colours (no dithering)
2. open gif in gimp
3. reduce the number of colours: switch to RGB and back to Indexed from the Image - Mode menu (no dithering, usually. dithering gives better looking pictures but tends to increase the file size a lot).
4. choose filters - animation - optimize (for gif)
save as gif.
If it's still too big, go back and reduce the amount of colours even more (powers of two are good: 2, 4, 8, 16 - anything in between won't help much) or reduce the image size.
(1. make your GIF with max colours (no dithering)
2. open gif in gimp
3. reduce the number of colours: switch to RGB and back to Indexed from the Image - Mode menu (no dithering, usually. dithering gives better looking pictures but tends to increase the file size a lot).
4. choose filters - animation - optimize (for gif)
save as gif.
If it's still too big, go back and reduce the amount of colours even more (powers of two are good: 2, 4, 8, 16 - anything in between won't help much) or reduce the image size.
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all foreskin of the apocalypse,
Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:49,
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..you make it sound so simple, my cat could do it.
I'll give it a go in future.
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Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:50,
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I'll give it a go in future.
it's pretty easygetting the most out of gifs is harder, but for captured video that's more or less the best you can do.
if you have largish parts of your animation that are 100% static between frames they'll optimize very well, which is why drawings / flash-type animations with very few colours in large sections compress so good.
(if you have largish parts of your animation that are 100% static between frames they'll optimize very well, which is why drawings / flash-type animations with very few colours in large sections compress so good.
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all foreskin of the apocalypse,
Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:54,
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