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StrongBeaver
StrongBeaver
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January 1, 2012
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Reducing Animated GIF Significantly

  • January 1, 2012
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I have a 3.4 meg animated gif.  I was only able to reduce it to 1.8 megs.  Any solution, without reducing colors to shrink the animated gif to under 300K preferable ?

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    Correct answer JJMack

    I've done what you suggested and only got the file size down to about 1.8-1.6 megs a far cry from under 200K.

    What about 3rd party converters, do you know any you can suggest being the vast amount on the net?


    It is very hard to predict the size an animated gf will be. To many variables image complexity and complexity of the animation here is a 390x200 pixel size one that has 150 frames and has a file size of 157KB.  About the size you want yours to be.

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    silviadd
    silviadd
    Participant
    May 25, 2018

    I have here a 98,997KB/96.6MB Animated GIF.

    I made video - After effects, no sound, the mp4 I export is 11 Megs and I compress it  through sending it over the email so I can get it on Insta.

    But the holly GIF is giving me hard time

    Help

    StrongBeaver
    StrongBeaverAuthor
    Legend
    June 21, 2018

    Can I see your GIF ?

    A
    Anonymous
    January 2, 2012

    What content requires 186 frames? What are you trying to show?

    A 200kb GIF at that size is usually ~12 frames, certainly not over 100.

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    January 1, 2012

    Most folks use a video format for a significantly large/long animation.

    How big is the image (horizontal pixels x vertical pixels)?

    How many frames?

    Is it made up of a lot of color complexity?

    -Noel

    StrongBeaver
    StrongBeaverAuthor
    Legend
    January 2, 2012

    320x240 8bit - 186 frames. There isn't extreme color complexity.  I'd like to keep as much as possible.

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    January 2, 2012

    That's moderately small, but with a large frame count.  I'm guessing there must be a fair bit of change between frames in order to get it up to the size you've reported.  GIF compression works best when exactly identical RGB values are maintained across large spaces in the image, and from frame to frame.

    Beyond possibly reducing the width and height if possible, I can only suggest fooling with the color table size and other parameters available to you in the Save for Web & Devices dialog and looking critically at the results.

    -Noel

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