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sherryl77877703
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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
    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?

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    ClayUUID
    Legend
    April 12, 2017

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

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    ClayUUID
    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.

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    sherryl77877703Author
    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

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    ClayUUID
    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.

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