Create Animated Gif File with After effects, Help please

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Create Animated Gif File with After effects, Help please

Posted by Nasa Haja on January 20, 2010 at 8:37 pm

hi guys.

I need help, I created animation(butte fly Animation) , the animation is around 5-7second, Now I want to export my animation as Gif file (image) for my website instead of video,

I tried to export the file as Gif , but the file is too big (20 mb) and the quality is very low, I went through setting I did some changing but I am not sure what is the right setting for Gif file with high quality,

I did the same animation in Photoshop, the Result is Fantastic, very high quality 400 kb, but I can do the animation better in After effect if I find out how to export it with high quality,

Could you please someone help me here about the setting , I really need help urgent,
please say something if you know something, any link of tutorials please welcome

thanks

Nasa

Look forward to hear from you

Nasa Haja replied 16 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
4 Replies

Michael Szalapski
January 20, 2010 at 9:06 pm

Export your file from AE as an image sequence and use Photoshop to create the Gif.

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Nasa Haja
January 20, 2010 at 9:09 pm

Thanks for replay, thats good idea if the result comes out with high resolution , let me try,
if you still know something different or different way please write something,
regards
Todd Kopriva
January 20, 2010 at 9:54 pm

Similar to what Michael said, see the tip on the bottom of this page:

“Photoshop Extended offers more control for creating animated GIF movies. Create your animation in After Effects, render and export to an intermediate format (such as a QuickTime movie), open the movie in Photoshop Extended, and export to animated GIF using Save For Web & Devices.”

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Nasa Haja
January 21, 2010 at 5:19 am

thanks todd, I tried what you said, when you import video to photoshop its makes more than 500 frames(layers), when I try to export the layer as Gif file, its crashes, out of memory. I cant export all the layer as gif file, I was thinking of putting all layers in Animation layers, but I am using Adobe CS4 and the animation layer its bit different than Cs3, it looks like adobe after effects Animation timeline, so I need bit of help and research.

all what I need to do is create an animation banner for website , small size with high quality,

thanks guys, please more help, links, tutorials, Advice,

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