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Animated GIF

by JoMo
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I was needing to put some small birds flying around on the top of my site, and I found this site that does nothing but host free, simple, bird animations (got to love the net!). I found the perfect 1. I integrated it into my heading, and it worked perfectly the first time. I was ecstatic.

BUT when I was testing in different browsers I found that in firefox the animation played about twice as fast as it did in all the rest. It played the right speed in EVERYTHING else. Why is this, and is there a way to make it appear correctly in FF?



-joel
#animated #gif
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    Never mind. I found out why. It appears that FF is not playing the animation too fast. IE and everything else has a limit to the speed they will play animations. So all the other browsers are actually playing the animation too slow, and FF is the only 1 playing it at the speed it was designed to play.

    Now I need to slow the animation down. I opened it in Fireworks and I was able to change the delay time of each frame, but the file went from 45k to 3mb just by adjusting the delay time! Is there a better program for adjusting the timing of an animated GIF that wont bloat the final product?



    -joel
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  • Profile picture of the author VictorJackson
    Play around in fire works, check the export optimization. There is no possible way that still frames take space as new ones... fire works is made because of does small web things, otherwise will be long gone.
    Also try it on in Photoshop animation (window>animation, in my CS3 version)

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    I have messed around with the export settings, but whatever I do I cannot get it to save at less than 3mb. This is odd because the only thing I change is the delay, but I guess FW rerenders all of the frames as well. This is an issue because there are 240 frames in the animation. I do not have Photoshop. So I have been trying to find another program that will allow me to change the delay without messing with the frames themselves.

    Any suggestions?



    -joel
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  • Profile picture of the author VictorJackson
    Flash have export as gif animation...

    I don't have FireWorks, but i still think that it can be done there. Is made for that.

    Good luck Bro!
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  • Profile picture of the author JoMo
    Thanks for the help. I found a little program called Easy Gif Animator that had a free trial that did exactly what I needed. I was able to change the delay without touching the frames.

    Easy GIF Animator - animated GIF editor - create and edit any gif animation



    -joel
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