[X-Apps] How to make animated gifs?

[David Tinker]

On Sunday, May 11, 2003, at 07:17  AM, John B. Thoo wrote:

> I would like to create an animated logo for a Web page

John

Convert the .png's to gifs and the size you want. If you don't have  
graphics software go to http://www.lemkesoft.de/gcdownload_us.html and  
get GraphicConverter. The new version has a fee, scroll down the page  
for older free downloads. This will allow you to batch convert an  
entire folder at one go. (and just about anything else you want, this  
is amazing software)

Get GifBuilder
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/VT/10438

Read the instructions at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/educators/workshop/animate/ 
builder.html

Play with it.

If you scroll down to step 5 on the instructions page, you will see in  
the Options menu that there are all sorts of settings that can be made.  
You may want to try different settings. For example, it sounds like the  
graphs you want to use will have the same colour range, so in Options >  
Colors, you can reduce the number of colours to 64 or 32 or even less  
if the quality is still there.

Also in Options > Disposal Method, if the bulk of the images are the  
same, and only the waveform changes, then you can throw out most of the  
information about the grid for the intermediate images as GifBuilder  
only needs the first and the last grid, and just needs the info for the  
waveform for the rest of the images. RTFM for the appropriate disposal  
method.

Finally, if you have a waveform doing a complete cycle, throw out the  
last image of the cycle and loop the animation. If the last image is  
the same as the first you will get a pause in the animation.

Have fun. Let us see the results.

Dave Tinker
WhateverWerx Multimedia