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(113 votes) Published: Dec 12, 2007 1:55 a.m. In 9 Favorites Lists Viewed 494 times
Obviously you will need Macromedia flash.
Now.. I know a lot of people who have gone all out and downloaded themselves a copy of macromedia flash but couldn’t be stuffed trying to figure out how to use it.
In this egg I’ll give you a rough idea how to make yourself a good gif.
- Starting out with a movie…
First up open up Flash
Choose new “Flash Documents”
Click “File”-“Import”-“Import to Stage”.
Browse to your video and click open.
Click next.
Make sure “Embed video is SWF and play in timeline” is selected.
Then click next,
Make sure you have these settings.
Here you can crop your video if you want to…
Then click finish and it should import
If your video did not import properly, or something went wrong.
..and it’s not in some strange file format.
You can do the following..
Open up windows movie maker.
Click “import video”
Browse for your video and click open
Drag your video from the library to the timeline
You can crop the video here as well if you want to.
Don’t forget that you can add other videos and add effects and all that shit, I’m sure none of you are that noobish.
Then click “File”-“Save Movie File”.
Choose “My Computer”
Choose yourself a name and location.
Leave the best quality option selected and click finish
And it should save as a Windows Media Video (.wmv) which should work in Flash.
Now back to Flash
First we have to make the stage the same size as your gif so first drag your gif into the top left hand corner.
Then click on a blank space of the stage and under “Properties tab” Click the Size button.
Now you’ll have to estimate the size until you get it right, and you can also change the speed (frame rate ) of the gif here.
To test the speed of your gif you can click (under “Control”) “Test Movie”.
So now say for example you want to add your name to your gif.
There are two ways.
1. Simply add a text box by clicking the text button and making a textbox and then putting in your text.
And you can change the size, font, style etc here...
But if you want a text box that moves around changes colour, size font etc throughout the gif you must use this way.
Click the insert layer button
Make sure the new layer is selected, and the whole frame on the new layer on the timeline is selected.
Right click and select “Convert to Keyframes”.
Now select one frame, Hit the text button, and create a text box.
Now select the 2nd frame, and make another text box, but make a change (eg. Colour, position, size)
Now as you will see, I have made 15 frames of “whoyathink” sliding along the bottom… but my gif goes for 30 frames,
So instead of doing all that again I’ll just highlight the selected frames and “copy”
Select the frame you want the copied frames to start on and paste
If your frames went a little bit over or you just want to delete some frames just select those ones right click and remove
Ok so now, you want to add a Santa hat, view baddspellas egg :)
And you can do that with heaps of other things, not just Santa hats: P
So now you want to save it yeah.
(File-Export-Export Movie)
Choose a name location. Etc and save
Then
And click ok,
Heres the gif i made
Keep in mind it could of been much bigger but its in a size that would be suitable for a RE avatar.
Dec 12, 2007 1:45 pm - 5* For all the effert and teaching me how to do this the easy way. Trying to do it with Photoshop is probably a challange. Just one question, is that program just used for MAKING flash doc’s or can you edit GIF’s you already have with it also? Because I have a GIF I want to use for a avatar but when I try to upload it on here it says, oops file size to large. Any suggestions?
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