[size=24]Best Gif Quality in Flash[/size]
Intro
Hello Folks, I have decided to share with you all how to obtain the greatest animated gif quality from flash.
Here we go.
Step 1- Make the Animation
(http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/7175/knuclesabsinthescreen3ha.png)
Get your animation ready. Make sure not to use any Movie Clips with self contained animation for it will be lost in the conversion to an animated gif.
If you plan to use this here at the LL, make the screen size 150 X 150 if you have a premium account or 100 X 100 if you have a regular account.
For the CC you will need 90 X 90.
Step 2- Publish Settings
(http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/1228/knucklestheother25hm.png)
Now that you have your animation you need to go to Publish Settings under File.
(http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/3808/knucklesscreen26ud.png)
Now uncheck all of the boxes except for gif. This will not effect you if you usually preview your movies by the Test Movie feature. If you do use Publish to preview your movies, simply recheck the .swf box after this tutorial.
Now click the only remaining Gif tab at the top of the box. Now make sure you have all of these statistics...
(http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/8251/knuckles36rx.png)
Dimensions- Match Movie
Playback #1- Animated
Playback #2- Loop continuously
Options #1- Optimize
Options #2- Smooth
Transparent- Opaque (Will auto set to 128 colors most likely)
Dither- None
Palette Type- Adaptive
Max Colors- 99999
Step 3- Publish
(http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/4491/knucklespublish4jw.png)
Go to File then Publish.
(http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/5585/knucklespublish1pu.png)
There you have it. Good work
(http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/5097/absinthespin8no.gif)
Very cool and very helpful!
Haha sorry for macroly expanding the borders. A special thanks to Absinthe for the screen shots and to Aubergine for teaching me how to do it.
thanks! good and helpful :fifen:
I love you.
Quote from: Finland ClockI love you.
Haha. Why thank you.
Very nice, very nice Indeed. Thanks man.
*EDIT*
I love loops like that, though I can't make em :(
I thought that this was common knowledge? Oh well thanks for showing newbs how to do it.
Didn't work for me.
That is brilliant. Really helpful, thanks!
Awesome.
I usually just export it as a bmp, and then open it all in adobe imageready and make it a .gif. Now this will save me a lot of time, thanks.
please sticky for great justice
Quote from: DietCherryVanillaplease sticky for great justice
It is and has been for like two weeks.
When I export, it seems to mess up any gradients or Flash 8 filters I put in, the image doesn't look right.
But at least it can export at correct frame rates.
Quote from: RupeeClockWhen I export, it seems to mess up any gradients or Flash 8 filters I put in, the image doesn't look right.
But at least it can export at correct frame rates.
It's not amazingly advanced for a flash export, but it does it's best.
look at my avi, how sexy it is.
Thats really helpfull, and especally because I'm in the process of making an avy, thanks!
so THATS why my gifs look so bad! thanks very much man! :fifen:
I'd give it :fifen:
How do I open the GIF?
About the gradients being messed up: You can fix that if you check dither solids, and set dithered to "diffusion"
:)
Thanks. That helps an awful lot.
This tutorital is good except the gifs it creates are freaking huge. Fine and dandy unless you want to make an avvy or save bandwith, in which you would have to use a gif editor/animator to do. One with an optimization feature would be best.
Awesome it was realy nice to learn that! :)
that helped a lot man thanks
now i can finally make good flash animated gifs of good quality:)
gifs can only go up to 256 colors so you dont really have to put in 9999
You win one free internet. Congratulations!
GinClock, you are a genius!
sorrry for the bump but when i export a .gif it messes up my framerate. How do i fix this? Or what is the regular .gif frame rate? Perhaps i could already set it at that frame rate in flash to see how to get the best results!
Quote from: BunnyClockClock;828947sorrry for the bump but when i export a .gif it messes up my framerate. How do i fix this? Or what is the regular .gif frame rate? Perhaps i could already set it at that frame rate in flash to see how to get the best results!
The tutorial shows that he is at 30fps. So i guess it works best in that.
Wow, 2 years and I never knew this, thanks a lot! I have one question though, does this increase the files size drastically? Or does it just stay around 40 - 20 kb.
Quote from: Johnny Rocketfingers;828947sorrry for the bump but when i export a .gif it messes up my framerate. How do i fix this? Or what is the regular .gif frame rate? Perhaps i could already set it at that frame rate in flash to see how to get the best results!
I have the same problem, and it doesn't change at 30 fps, it stays the same as any other fps.:confused:
EDIT: I Made this:
nice!(http://www.cyberstrike.net84.net/hoemec.psd)
just now i looked this up and used it
Been needing to know this for a while, thanks!
Older browsers will limit GIFs to 12FPS, newer ones, like Firefox 3, will go as fast as your processor can handle. Although by now you should all be using APNG.
Quote from: Sinister;1573362Older browsers will limit GIFs to 12FPS, newer ones, like Firefox 3, will go as fast as your processor can handle. Although by now you should all be using APNG.
yes, but you realize sometimes clients etc. demand gif right?
Quote from: SCSP;1574434yes, but you realize sometimes clients etc. demand gif right?
Are you suggesting that anyone in the Clock Crew is employable!??!??!?!