After Effects saving as .GIF

[Guest]

Hey guys! I just downloaded After Effects after I saw some cool tutorials, and I made a cool project for my website. But, the thing is, I'm having some technical issues. I need that project to be saved as .GIF, and the animation must repeat only once, not infinitely as other .GIF do. I can transform any movie to a .GIF that repeats only once using Camtasia Studio, but here's the problem, what movie extension can keep the transparency I want on my .GIF borders? I don't want a .GIF with black corners. If I save it as a PNG Sequence, I can't set the time I want between frames in Camtasia Studio. I know it's hard to understand cuz I suck at explaining stuff. Can you help me please? I don't have any idea what to do. After Effects can't save it as .GIF.

[Rick Gerard · Accepted solution]

After Effects is a lousy tool for creating animated gifs. It's like bringing a pneumatic hammer into the living room to put a thumb tack in the wall.

If you must use AE, then render a png sequence or an Animation Codec Quick Time with an alpha channel, bring those files into Photoshop or Fireworks (or about a zillion other image editig apps, and create your animated gif there.

[undlou88]

Hi Guys,

Im having the same thing but the problem is, i dont have photoshop! the only photo editing program i have is Serif photoplus x4. could i do it with this?

thanks

[Todd_Kopriva]

Download the free 30-day trial version of Photoshop and use that.

[undlou88]

THANK YOU

[Mylenium]

What Rick said - simply use other apps for the GIF and only render an image sequence from AE. There are so many of them...

Mylenium