video loop avatar thingie

tonksy

tonksy

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So I wanted to make a tiny loop clip of a piece of video that I have. I went to photobucket to do it but apparently I can't do such a thing through them at my level of membership.
Does anyone know of a way to do that for free or does anyone have the capability to do so?
 
tonksy said:
So I wanted to make a tiny loop clip of a piece of video that I have. I went to photobucket to do it but apparently I can't do such a thing through them at my level of membership.
Does anyone know of a way to do that for free or does anyone have the capability to do so?
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Animated gif. I use the Gimp. Here's how. :D

Edit: Note that the Gimp does virtually everything Photoshop does.
 
Um....Chic? So I opened Gimp and the directions make no sense. I can't find the layers thing or anything that lets me work with a video clip.
 
ooh, quicktime. I wonder if mplayer would do it. Well, that doesn't help you anyway, you don't have a linux box laying around, huh?

I actually know a solution but it's a very labor intensive one.
 
You know that your trying to use a GNU program to open with a Mac file on Windows computer, right? It's a wonder it didn't have a nervous breakdown.
 
chcr said:
You know that your trying to use a GNU program to open with a Mac file on w Windows computer, right? It's a wonder it didn't have a nervous breakdown.
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Nope, just me...and I snapped at Rob whilst trying to figure out what I was doing wrong.
chcr said:
Okay, how long is the video?
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About a second or so, that's why I want it looped- for comic effect....and then av sized.

http://s72.photobucket.com/albums/i174/tonksandunc/girls/?action=view&current=malslide.flv
 
Well, if I were really serious and had the time to spare I might try to get twenty or so various sequential screenshots, layer them in Gimp then save that as an animated gif. Like I said, a little labor intensive. Actually, given the size you're going to shrink it to, you probably could get buy on 12-15 screenshots.
 
Yeah....I don't think so. To tell you the truth, I am still amazed that I can't loop and shrink through photobucket. The purpose of this was to learn how to do it...but not if it's going to be so....tedious.
Thanks, Chic.
 
.FLV is a Flash video. Kinda' videos you get off YouTube etc. If I want to make a small loop out of those things, I import them into Macromedia Flash (or Adobe Flash if you're using the new version) and export it as an image sequence in .PNG format. To make the next step easier, I then isolate the portion of the images I want to make into a loop (eg: image0050.png -> image0070.png)

I then start Adobe ImageReady, import the images as an image sequence, do a bit of cropping, fiddle with the size and the optimization settings then export it as a .GIF.


Only problem here is, this is all assuming you have Flash and ImageReady installed on your computer.
 
Thank you. Bink. I think I have flash but I am pretty sure it's a no on Imageready. I shall look into it further after a cup of coffee.
 
You likely have the flash viewer (free) instead of the full version of flash ($700 MSRP) that lets you create flash movies.
 
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