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Questions tagged [animated-gif]

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How do I create a GIF screencast in Windows?

I need a way to record my Windows desktop and save it as an animated GIF file. Here's an example: I need GIF animations so that they can run from a web page without requiring any plugins. I want to record and save directly as a GIF. How can I…
metal gear solid
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How to stop animated gifs in Google Chrome?

I wish that the .gif files would only show the first frame and never do any animation. Also, I'd like this to work automatically (i.e. having to hit Esc as in Firefox is not enough). Is there a way of doing that in Chrome? I'm on a dev channel so I…
Tomas Sedovic
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How to optimize animated GIF size via the command-line?

How to compress GIF animations? For example by reducing the color index. The files are generated using Imagemagick but optimization seems complicated. For example, the following animation is 864KB at 150x119: To be used on a Linux machine.
qubodup
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Why does FFmpeg choose 10+20+20 ms instead of an even 16 ms for 60 fps GIF images?

I have a short 60 fps video which I'd like to turn into a GIF file. I run ffmpeg -i foo.flv foo.gif and it produces a GIF file. Great! The only problem is that the motion in the produced GIF video is janky and uneven. If I use another tool, I can…
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How do I make an existing animated GIF loop repeatedly?

I have an animated gif which, as originally created, animates once then stops. I want to modify the image file so it loops forever instead. What free applications or command-line utilities for Mac OS X can I use to do this? I've found several GIF…
Brant Bobby
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Does only GIF support animation?

Is GIF the only major image format that supports animation? With GIF images being a relatively poor quality format, why are they the only one that supports animation in most viewers / browsers?
Jonathon Reinhart
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Insert Animated GIF into Powerpoint 2013?

As per title, I am looking for a way to embed animated GIF files within my powerpoint presentation. I was hoping for this to be native functionality but either inserting as image or as video does not appear to work.
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Do 60 FPS GIF's actually exist? Or is the maximum 50 FPS?

I've been recently playing around with FFmpeg and I was trying to convert .avi to .gif since other methods I've tried to so far didn't work so well. What I noticed is that, when I use this command: ffmpeg -I filename.gif I can see some of the file…
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How to take a CSS animation from a browser, and export a GIF of it?

I have the following CSS3 Animation going on: http://dabblet.com/gist/2884702. It's basically a simulation of a mirror rotating on its x-axis. Now, I wish to present that in a PowerPoint presentation. Since PowerPoint doesn't have the webkit engine,…
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How do I resize an animated GIF and keep transparency?

I tried to resize an animated GIF with transparency, but it turned the background a solid white. How do I keep the transparency? I read https://superuser.com/a/556031/130929 and tried >set FILTERS=scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos >ffmpeg -hide_banner -i…
Chloe
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Setting an animated .gif as the desktop background on Windows 7

I have an animated .gif I created using Photoshop CS4, but I can't get animation on my desktop although I can set it as a background from the context menu by opening it in Internet Explorer. How can I set an animated .gif as the desktop background…
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How to pause/play animated gifs in Google Chrome?

I am interested in play/pause controls for gifs, like we have for videos(on Youtube, for example) or even for gifs on Reddit(gfycat player RES extension): I've googled and read other threads here on Super User but couldn't find a proper solution.…
KulaGGin
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Tile animated gifs

Is there some way to use imagemagic / montage to tile looped animated gifs (intermixed with nonanimated ones)? That is, I want to concatenate the animations in space, not in time. I realize that the number of frames and their duration in the…
tsbertalan
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How to control gif loop settings in FFmpeg

I'm able to export a sequence of images as a gif with FFmpeg: ffmpeg -vsync 2 -safe 0 -f concat -i "file:concat.txt" -lavfi palettegen=stats_mode=diff[pal],[0:v][pal]paletteuse=new=1:diff_mode=rectangle -y "Test.gif" Now, I'm wondering if I can…
Nicke Manarin
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How to make transparent background of a gif animation?

I have a gif animation with white background. Is there a simple way (e.g., free or shareware application) to remove this white background and make it transparent?
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