• Adobe After Effects

  animated .gif problem

  Posted by Richard Snyder on May 9, 2006 at 7:46 pm

  I’m not sure if this is the right forum for this problem, but here goes:

  I’m using ImageReady to animate a .gif file. No matter what I try, the animation is jumpy and slow. I’ve tried fooling with the “tweening” settings, to no avail. I’m not an expert at this by any means. Any help at all would be appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Rich Snyder

  Ron Lindeboom replied 20 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Alon_a

  May 9, 2006 at 10:46 pm

  If you’re using ImageReady, this probably isn’t the right forum 🙂

  AniGIFs are a very limited format. It’s hard to tell based on your description but it could be that you’re just facing the limitations of the the medium. While you’re here you might as well download a trial version of Adobe After Effects and try making it there… but again, don’t expect it to look like HD video, or even Flash.

  AA
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  Ron Lindeboom

  May 10, 2006 at 1:03 pm

  Animated gifs were never intended to be smooth-motion animations, they were intended to allow people to short, very limited animations that are usually a few frames a second. A real animation would be between 24 to 30 frames a second and most animated gifs are usually done in the range of about 5 frames a second or less. That’s what they were intended to be.

  Animated gifs are not a format that you want to think of as a full frame size, full frame rate delivery mode. If the web is where you are going to deliver your animations, then Flash is what you want to consider. If video is your destination, then look at After Effects.

  ImageReady is for making web banner ads mostly. That was its intended use.

  Best regards,

  Ron Lindeboom

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