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#1 2011-02-08 12:06:40

sparks
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Costumes to animated gif?

Dragging an animated gif into Scratch or Panther will seperate it into costumes for each frame. Is there a way to reverse the procedure and CREATE animated Gifs? I'm fed up with using the limited quality online gif generators  smile


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#2 2011-02-08 12:12:51

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

sparks wrote:

Dragging an animated gif into Scratch or Panther will seperate it into costumes for each frame. Is there a way to reverse the procedure and CREATE animated Gifs? I'm fed up with using the limited quality online gif generators  smile

Probably, but not directly from Scratch. Using source code it should be easily done.

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#3 2011-02-08 12:23:03

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

mmm...


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#4 2011-02-08 12:34:39

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

sparks wrote:

mmm...

Or, if it's a big project, ask someone to do it for you which has Flash like me!

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#5 2011-02-08 12:40:56

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

sparks wrote:

Dragging an animated gif into Scratch or Panther will seperate it into costumes for each frame. Is there a way to reverse the procedure and CREATE animated Gifs? I'm fed up with using the limited quality online gif generators  smile

Don't think so, but I've got two different programs on my computer which can create animated gifs, and one of them seems to be available for free: http://www.freewaregeeks.com/?page=detail&get_id=228&category=18


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#6 2011-02-08 13:05:09

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

thankd for the offer, LS, but It's for a website I'm building for my games company and I'm looking to flash, animated gif our latest games on the front page, so you'd end up doing them all the time, which you won't like  hmm


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#7 2011-02-08 14:56:13

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

sparks wrote:

thankd for the offer, LS, but It's for a website I'm building for my games company and I'm looking to flash, animated gif our latest games on the front page, so you'd end up doing them all the time, which you won't like  hmm

Oh.  tongue
I take back my offer.. JK. I'd be happy to do it but it becomes tiring after a while. Unless...

I'm sure you could do that in PHP! Ask MathWizz or Daffy22 for more help. You could simply put the image URL in and it would do the rest...

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#8 2011-02-08 15:09:32

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

you mean the url to each image?


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#9 2011-02-08 15:16:08

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

sparks wrote:

you mean the url to each image?

Well, that's a way to do it but not what I was trying to say.
What I mean is that, if you don't absolutely need an animated GIF, you could do with a simple picture of each one and it would rotate automatically.

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#10 2011-02-08 16:31:36

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

that's true  smile  I'll look into it!


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#11 2011-02-08 17:07:44

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

THERE IS! You need to make a file full of the pics, then make the MoviePlayerMorph (click the white at the bottom of the screen, click new morph, then MoviePlayerMorph), click menu, then click "create JPEG movie from folder of frames"... oh, well that makes a JPEG movie. I am not sure if you can drag those into scratch.


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#12 2011-02-08 22:32:24

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

Just do a google search for a program called UnFREEz.exe for Windows.  It will make animated gif files from individual images.  It does not have any limitations and it is free.


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#13 2011-02-09 05:36:54

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

sounds good! Is it possible to use UnFREEz to create a gif with a variable amout of time between each frame change?


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#14 2011-02-09 05:48:51

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

jd, I had a look at the movieMorph but I can't seem to export the movie as a gif.


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#15 2011-02-09 11:04:21

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

search for flex, It's adobes cut down version of flash and it's free  big_smile !


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#16 2011-02-09 14:53:55

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

Or get a flash keygen. It's illegal, but you get the full thing for free!  tongue


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#17 2011-02-09 15:34:49

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

^ good thing to post on an educational site that employs lawyerstongue


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#18 2011-02-09 16:42:02

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

sparks wrote:

^ good thing to post on an educational site that employs lawyerstongue

Of course, he was joking! Wasn't he?  wink

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#19 2011-02-09 20:33:03

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Re: Costumes to animated gif?

sparks wrote:

jd, I had a look at the movieMorph but I can't seem to export the movie as a gif.

You mean Pecola1.  lol


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