How to make an animated gif from an avi file ? a.k.a video avatar
 

Hello,

im currently trying to make a video avatar, after i had hard time cutting the video to keep the sequences i want, i am now with a big avi file (140MB) which i want to become a small gif (80X80). How can i do that ?

Help me please !

Re: How to make an animated gif from an avi file ? a.k.a video avatar
 

In the past I've always used Animation Shop Pro (comes Paint Shop Pro) for creating animated gif's... not aware of any free tools but I'm sure theres something out there... link: http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satelli...=1047024390003
... it costs $39 but I know that it would work
also alot of expensive video editing packages have output to .gif ... if you were editing the video with something like Premiere or Final Cut
[edit]dug this up... may be worth a shot:
http://www.evanolds.com/movtogifsimple.html
[edit 2]the free one that I just posted works... here's a sample gif from some random video that I found on my computer:
http://erbbysam.com/img/temp_gif.gif
but it looks like you may have to resize your source video first to use this tool

Re: How to make an animated gif from an avi file ? a.k.a video avatar
 

Thanks, nice tool.

Re: How to make an animated gif from an avi file ? a.k.a video avatar
 

Yeaah baby !!

Finally, i had to find a soft to resize my video and i used VirtualDub, which also have an 'export to gif' function.
So i recommend it, it's opensource and works very well, even if your computer is weak.

Re: How to make an animated gif from an avi file ? a.k.a video avatar
 

i have found some useful program for making animated avatars: http://www.geovid.com/Video_Avatar/