Make Your Own Animated Gifs

What you need

Virtual Dub
Adobe ImageReady (Usually comes with Photoshop 7)

Set Up

First make a folder to contain all the images you will extract

Capturing Images with Virtual Dub

1) Open up the episode of the TV show you want to make a .gif file
2) Find the frame it starts on. CTRL+G
(XX:XX:XX) Minutes : Seconds : Frame
3) Press the MARK IN button (at the bottom of the screen)
4) The go to the last frame and press MARK OUT
5) Go to File > Save as Image Sequence
Set the number of digits to 3
Save it in the folder you made

here is a screenshot if your having trouble finding mark in and mark out

Click here

Creating the .GIF in ImageReady

1) File > Import > Folders as frames
2) Open the folder you saved the images in
It will load the images by frame
3) Go to Image > Image Size
Make it to 100x100 for an avatar or watever you want
4) File > Save Optimized Image As

*Note you can delete frames to reduce the .GIF size as it will be pretty big

Post tips on how to make it smaller

I had VirtualDub sitting in my computer the whole time, and I didn't know it could do this! Thanks for the tip Raptrex! It's a good thing I had those programs ready even before looking at the tutorial. I always wanted to make a cool animated gif with my show. Thanks a lot!

me too... thanks!

Could you post an image of the gif that it would look like, just because i cant really picture it in my head. Also were do you get the TV image from??

i just bught a new pc and i just saw that i have that program too!! thx man i am definately gonna use it!!
thx for the tut

Here's a link to the gif I made using the tutorial.
I really enjoyed making the gif! I didn't know it was so easy!

Animated GIF using tutorial
I made the image smaller using ImageReady, so it won't be taking up so much space.

How to make the image smaller:

It's best to use ImageReady for this, as the quality is better.

Go to Image->Image Size...-> and then adjust as you see fit.
Don't worry about just adjusting the width or just the height. ImageReady will make it proportional for you.

icemarle

you should take out some frames to make it a bit faster

thx for liking my tutorial

I would like to edit my post.

Yeah. It was a bit slow... But I needed those frames though. The animation itself is long. I'm not really a graphics whiz. sleep.gif I might fix that GIF someday, though.

EDIT:
I already removed most of the frames. You can find the revised GIF in http://www.kvariety.uni.cc/etoilerevised.gif

[note=snlildude87]Edited for user request[/note]

This post has been edited by snlildude87: Apr 29 2005, 11:28 AM

Thx very much... I need this..

Thank you. I have always wanted to make an animated GIF for forum signatures.