Ps animations made into smart objects as assets for a new file

[Brettman123]

I want to do a quick way of putting together up to 15 independent looping gifs (Ps) into one big composition in Ps.

Please help tell me how to make each Ps animation into a smart object which can be a looping asset put into a new file with other looping animations.

My Ps file has all the different frames of the animation as layers, then I open the timeline, create animation, and go to make frames from layers, and adjust the timing.

From there I don't know how to put this animation into a new file. I tried convert to smart object from layers menu (with all the layers and frames highlighted), and then right click, duplicate and destination of smart object to a new file, but when I go into this new file I don't know how to make the smart object "play" as an animation; it is just a static frame. I also tried going into the new file and double clicking to edit the contents of the smart object and animate it, with no marked difference to me. I beg your pardon, I have little experience with smart objects. I appreciate the help!

[JJMack]

I never use Quicktime on windows security and file size issues.

My animation saved as a gif    is       295KB

My animation saved as a mp4 is       574KB

My Animation saved as a mov is 67,459KB

[Silkrooster]

The only security issue I have heard of was with the quicktime player. They made a huge deal out making sure everyone uninstalled it. Which it is not required to open in photoshop.

Unless doing large length high quality video's then yeah mp4 is the wise choice for sharing. Gif is dead (but the animation is the only thing keeping it around)

As for storing files on your own system, file size is not exactly all that important especially if you need to do archival, re-editing, etc.

But for forums, mp4, gif, png and jpg are it. With the former two for animation and latter two for stills.

Too bad the png an jpg animation formats never took off, otherwise no one would even remember gif.

I kind of wish someone would take over the source code for the gif format and update it to support more colors, larger file sizes, 8-bit alpha. Maybe even throw in layers for editing.

But, I believe that is just a pipe dream.

[JJMack]

There is an animated png addon for Chrome Animated png animate on my machine. PNG vs GIF no comtest.

[Silkrooster]

I had to open chrome to see it, but yeah, I agree.