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GrayJHP
Inspiring
Nov 30, 2017 3:04 PM UTC
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Exported GIF images not looping despite settings.

I cannot get any gifs to loop their animation when I export from Animate CC (2018), even though I have the looping set to "forever" in the export settings. They loop in my mac's finder window, but I'm pretty sure Finder loops all gifs regardless of their settings. When I drag the files into a web browser, they only play once. Same results for both Chrome and Firefox. Why is my "forever" setting just getting ignored when it exports? How do I fix this? I have dug up some iffy websites that let me upload the gif and set it to loop forever, but the image quality and frame rate go down.

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GrayJHP
GrayJHPCorrect answer
Inspiring
Jan 17, 2018 4:08 AM UTC

Interesting workaround. So far I’ve gotten around it by turning the loop setting off and on again in the export menu before I save. For some reason, (at least for me) toggling that setting must reset something somewhere. It feels like a random pointless extra step, but so far it’s worked.

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Participant
Dec 10, 2020 10:51 AM UTC

Thanks for sharing! Much appreciated. 

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Participant
Apr 2, 2020 8:25 PM UTC

That's crazy. And who'd have thought it. Still not fixed after all this time. Not surprising.

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Mohanaraj
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
Dec 10, 2020 11:03 AM UTC

Just wanted to let you all know that this is fixed in Animate version 21. No work around needed now, please check and let us know if you still face any issues with this.

 

Thanks!

Mohan

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Participant
Apr 21, 2021 12:22 PM UTC

Not fixed. I still have this bug in the latest version 21.0.4

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Participant
Oct 26, 2019 10:53 PM UTC

This fixed it for me, too! Thanks!

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Inspiring
May 28, 2018 7:48 PM UTC

Thank you so much for that - i was baffled by the non-looping too.... Toggling the looping settings fixed it.

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Participant
Mar 2, 2018 3:18 PM UTC

Wow! Thanks for that workaround. It worked for me as well.

Impressive that this is still a thing. Come on, Adobe. Fix it!

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anokinet
Participant
Jan 17, 2018 3:24 AM UTC

I think I've found it! Maybe...

I changed it to Type Optimized and from Perceptual to Selective and that seemed to have worked a few times already...

Anyone else?

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GrayJHP
GrayJHPAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
Jan 17, 2018 4:08 AM UTC

Interesting workaround. So far I’ve gotten around it by turning the loop setting off and on again in the export menu before I save. For some reason, (at least for me) toggling that setting must reset something somewhere. It feels like a random pointless extra step, but so far it’s worked.

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Participant
Jan 17, 2018 4:56 PM UTC

This finally worked for me as well using your method. Not sure why this is such a problem, but glad you guys gave me a workaround!

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kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
Nov 30, 2017 4:09 PM UTC

i don't see that using windows chrome/ff/ie.

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