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bennyishereyo
bennyishereyo
Participant
October 9, 2019
Question

How to split a GIF based on seconds

  • October 9, 2019
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Hey ! So, I am trying to post a GIF into a website which has restrictions in size - 1.5 MB, around a duration of 30 seconds each.

 

My GIF exceeds that and is around 2 MB - so, I decided to split the GIF into two GIFs with duration of 15 seconds each, but I am unable to do so.

 

How do I go about this ? Is there a feature over the internet that helps with this  ?

 

 

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2 replies

Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
October 9, 2019

As already suggested use a web service or a third-party image viewer/ image editor to optimize your files and split it into chunks. PS is simply too unpredictable for this kind of thing due to how it re-calculates the color palette and in turn affects file sizes.

 

Mylenium

Maiane Gabriele
Maiane Gabriele
Inspiring
October 9, 2019

I think you could try three things:

1. Save your gif into a lower quality, normally we do that since gifs doesn't have the need to be in the highest quality. You can change preferences directly one the window to save from photoshop (Ctrl + shift + alt + s). If you reduce the colors to the half it will already reduce your gif size a lot.

2. You can try to compress at online websites, like ezgif. Normally it reduces considerably without losing so much quality.

3. You can try to duplicate the photoshop file, then in the first one you delete the first half of the frames at the time-line panel and at the second folder you delete the other frames, this way you could have both half of it.

 

Hope it helps. 🙂 

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