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Participating Frequently
April 12, 2017
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How do I make compressed animated gif?

  • April 12, 2017
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Hello, I am very new to animate and I just dont know where to find the ability to compress my file

I am exporting animated gif and I cannot compress.

I can't use the swf (which would make life easy but) I need the .gif

the file is approaching 1 MB needs be 50k or under

any help much appreciated

Correct answer Colin Holgate

As Clay suggested, there are online ones. I had thought they were for GIFs and wouldn't do the right thing with animated gif. But this one does:

https://ezgif.com/optimize

In my test case it did better than ImageOptim.

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Colin Holgate
Inspiring
April 12, 2017

Animate does have a problem when making animated gifs. It makes every frame unique instead of only storing what has changed. I haven't figured a way around that in Animate.

But, if you have a Mac you can use ImageOptim:

https://imageoptim.com/mac

Drag your animated gif into its window, and in the Tools menu select Gifsicle. In my quick test I had a file go from 670k down to 56k.

If you don't have a Mac can you put the animated gif online somewhere, and I'll try?

Legend
April 12, 2017

There are many freely available online animated GIF optimizers. All she has to do is Google them.

Legend
April 12, 2017

There is no such thing as a non-compressed animated GIF. The format is inherently compressed.

Now, what you can do is run your output through a GIF optimizer, which can attempt to make your animation more compressible by reducing the color depth, frame rate, resolution, and various other tweaks.

But if you're seriously trying to get a 1MB animation down to 50K yeah no that's not happening.

Participating Frequently
April 12, 2017

thanks for the feedback - is there any way to convert the swf into a gif? because the swf is only 50k

Legend
April 12, 2017

A SWF is a computer program, not a video format. That's how Flash animations can be so compact. When you convert one to video you're just recording its output as a sequence of frames, and animated GIF is the worst, most inefficient "video" format there is.

If you want a 50K GIF you're going to have to make your animation shorter and simpler.