Importing Giff-animations?

svvein · Post by **svvein** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:10 pm

Is it possible to import Giff-animations? (made in photoshop/imageready)?
svvein

Post by **Lost Marble** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:38 am

No. You can import QuickTime or AVI movies, or a sequence of still images, but not animated GIFs.

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:50 am

There's probably a whole lot of ways to do this, but if you have Flash, I'll share the way I do it. It's very simple.

Import the animated gif into Flash. Flash will allocate a frame for every different frame in the gif animation. Export this "movie" as a sequence of still pictures (24bit png is usually good), and you can import this into Moho.

Depending on how the animated gif has been constructed, SOMETIMES you get unexpected results, but I've found this rarely happens.

HTH

J

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:59 pm

Well, if you animated GIF file isn't too large and has less than 1000 frames, you can upload it to GIFworks.com (look for the "Free Online GIF e-Tools" link at the top of the webdocument). After uploading your file, split your it into frames (optimize menu) and download each frame back to your computer. The frames are neatly numbered (001 - 999).

You can import the frame images into Moho, put them into a switch layer and switch the imported frame images in the Timeline Window.

BTW I've tried the Import Image Sequence script, but that doesn't seem to work on my Mac.

mr. blaaa · Post by **mr. blaaa** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:38 pm

Or you could use a screen video capture tool, just to record the gif as it's being played back, then save as .mov or .avi and import it to moho.

myles · Post by **myles** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:45 am

A quick Google tuned up at least one free GIF2AVI converter:

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000000644

I haven't tried it, use at your own risk.

Regards, Myles.