I need to produce high quality gifs but with low file sizes

[austinm97425854]

I am creating animations (1024x512px 30.00 fps) that I want to export as animated gifs for social media, but they are always exporting in large file sizes 3mb +. In work I access to the files of similar projects done by external design agencies, where they have exported really good quality gifs from Adobe Animate at small file sizes e.g 444kb, but if I open their source Animate file and try to export the exact same gif, I'm getting 4mb. Am I missing something that allows me to without effecting quality. Please note, they are achieving this without removing frames, or colours or rendering the gif pixellated or jumpy in anyway. Thanks

[ClayUUID]

Setting aside for the moment that GIF is not a video format, and that people who treat it as one deserve to be lashed with wet noodles... have you tried running your exported GIFs through a GIF optimizer? There are many freely available online.

[austinm97425854]

Thats brilliant. Have you any recommendations of a gif optimiser?

[deans67202452]

I doubt they are using Animate to export animated gifs, because they always look terrible. More than likely they are exporting the frames and then compiling the animated gif in photoshop.  Besides this having 30fps for an animated gif for the internet is like driving a BMW on a GoKart track, you can get away with 12 or even 8fps

[austinm97425854]

That is great advice... and yes, I reached out to them and they are exporting pngs and putting them together in Fireworks. I'll play around with the fps.

[just.emma · Accepted solution]

What version of Animate are you using?

There have been some improvements to the animated GIF export in Animate CC 2017: What's new and changed in the 2017 release of Animate CC so you should upgrade if you haven't yet.

You can also try something like http://ezgif.com/optimize or https://compressor.io/

[austinm97425854]

Great, I'll update that now.