Ravager Posted November 4, 2006 Posted November 4, 2006 i have seen some other members have a movie for their avatar insead of a picture, is there any way that i can do it to? Quote
Admin Rodney Posted November 4, 2006 Admin Posted November 4, 2006 Locally (on the Hash Inc server that hosts this forum) you can upload an animated Gif file. That would provide you with a small movie. The more exensive movie avatars you see (Colin Freeman and Robert Holmeins are two examples) are Flash (.swf) animations which I believe are linked to on their sites. With this technique you could theoretically set up your movies for interactivity/branching too. Creating Gif animation is pretty easy. Flash animation is getting easier to make especially now as A:M is picking up the capability. Quote
John Bigboote Posted November 4, 2006 Posted November 4, 2006 I think the gif limit is still 1mb. We 'host' a .swf file off of our our domains, which the forum bot goes out and gets. I have some rollovers in mine... I thought about adding sound, but knew I would be going to far. Quote
Ravager Posted November 4, 2006 Author Posted November 4, 2006 ummm, how do you make it a gif file? Quote
Admin Rodney Posted November 4, 2006 Admin Posted November 4, 2006 ummm, how do you make it a gif file? You'll need a utility/program to make them. They come in all varieties from simple to complex, command line to interface, from free to really expensive. If you launch a search on Google for "animation convert AVI to GIF freeware" you are bound to find hundreds. A while back I used and enjoyed AVI2GIF. There were other programs of the same order such as TGA2GIF etc. Now I use Corel Photopaint but I bought that with the Corel suite of programs for $200 or so. There are a few programs that can create GIF animations themselves but don't convert/import graphics. Those probably won't suit your needs if you are wanting to use images out of A:M. Lots and lots of programs to convert images to GIF! Quote
John Bigboote Posted November 4, 2006 Posted November 4, 2006 IF you already have Photoshop (a recent version) THEN you already have a most powerful gif creator in Photoshop's 'sister' application Adobe ImageReady. You can even do rollover effects/buttons in a gif with ImageReady. Quote
Ravager Posted November 19, 2006 Author Posted November 19, 2006 does anyone know something that can convert avi animation to gif animation that is FREE? Quote
johnl3d Posted November 19, 2006 Posted November 19, 2006 If you post the AVI remember there is a limited size I will convert it to a gif and post it Quote
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