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Inspiring
Oct 24, 2019 4:21 PM UTC
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Adobe Animate: only 'once' and 'forever' as loop options for animated .gifs?

I'm exporting an animated .gif in Animate, and I see in the dialog that there are only "once" and "forever" as looping options. WTH? What happened to setting a custom loop (say, 3x which is TOTALLY STANDARD across the web). 

 

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    Boerresen
    Participating Frequently
    Nov 23, 2022 8:09 AM UTC

    Hi anyone else who might had come across the same problem.
    When you open Animate CC you can choose between HTML5 and Actionscript. If you choose HTML5 and wants to export to GIF you'll only be able to loop once or forever.

    However if you choose Actionscript and export to GIF you'll get some other settings such as Repeat times:

    Don't know why you don't get the same settings for GIF. Adobe must have their reasons. 

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    Participant
    Mar 29, 2022 5:59 AM UTC

    Hi there- I've read through this thread and it has been helpful. My issue is that I only want my GIF to play once. I can't figure out how to do this? It seems no matter what I change the settings to it continues to loop.

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    Inspiring
    Oct 24, 2019 5:26 PM UTC

    I still see the option to set the loop count on publish settings.  Are you using the latest version?

     

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    ds76421298
    Inspiring
    Oct 24, 2019 6:09 PM UTC

    It doesn't say it needs updating. Here's a screenshot of the options as I see them (I'm on a Mac, FWIW).

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    ds76421298
    Inspiring
    Oct 24, 2019 6:10 PM UTC

    It seems pretty lame that it would offer that in the 'publish settings' but not the actual export screen, no? 

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