Make Your Own Animated Gifs from your favorite show

[Raptrex 0]

What you need

 

Virtual Dub

Adobe ImageReady (Usually comes with Photoshop 7)

 

Set Up

 

First make a folder to contain all the images you will extract

 

Capturing Images with Virtual Dub

 

1) Open up the episode of the TV show you want to make a .gif file

2) Find the frame it starts on. CTRL+G

(XX:XX:XX) Minutes : Seconds : Frame

3) Press the MARK IN button (at the bottom of the screen)

4) The go to the last frame and press MARK OUT

5) Go to File > Save as Image Sequence

Set the number of digits to 3

Save it in the folder you made

 

here is a screenshot if your having trouble finding mark in and mark out

 

Click here

 

Creating the .GIF in ImageReady

 

1) File > Import > Folders as frames

2) Open the folder you saved the images in

It will load the images by frame

3) Go to Image > Image Size

Make it to 100x100 for an avatar or watever you want

4) File > Save Optimized Image As

 

*Note you can delete frames to reduce the .GIF size as it will be pretty big

 

Post tips on how to make it smaller

[icemarle 0]

I had VirtualDub sitting in my computer the whole time, and I didn't know it could do this! Thanks for the tip Raptrex! It's a good thing I had those programs ready even before looking at the tutorial. I always wanted to make a cool animated gif with my show. Thanks a lot!

[mr-faidhi 0]

me too... thanks!

[fsastraps 0]

Could you post an image of the gif that it would look like, just because i cant really picture it in my head. Also were do you get the TV image from??

[hellgate 0]

I had VirtualDub sitting in my computer the whole time, and I didn't know it could do this! Thanks for the tip Raptrex! It's a good thing I had those programs ready even before looking at the tutorial. I always wanted to make a cool animated gif with my show. Thanks a lot!

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i just bught a new pc and i just saw that i have that program too!! thx man i am definately gonna use it!!

thx for the tut

[icemarle 0]

Here's a link to the gif I made using the tutorial.
I really enjoyed making the gif! I didn't know it was so easy!

Animated GIF using tutorial
I made the image smaller using ImageReady, so it won't be taking up so much space.

How to make the image smaller:

It's best to use ImageReady for this, as the quality is better.

Go to Image->Image Size...-> and then adjust as you see fit.
Don't worry about just adjusting the width or just the height. ImageReady will make it proportional for you.

[Raptrex 0]

icemarleyou should take out some frames to make it a bit fasterthx for liking my tutorial

[icemarle 0]

I would like to edit my post.

Yeah. It was a bit slow... But I needed those frames though. The animation itself is long. I'm not really a graphics whiz. sleep.gif I might fix that GIF someday, though.

EDIT:
I already removed most of the frames. You can find the revised GIF in http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Notice from snlildude87:

Edited for user request

Edited April 29, 2005 by snlildude87 (see edit history)

[SoulFlower 0]

Thx very much... I need this..

[wariorpk 0]

Thank you. I have always wanted to make an animated GIF for forum signatures.

[MechVegita 0]

kewl man that is a good tutorial i like it

[marbar1989 0]

Nice. Now i can finally make that animated avatart i've always wanted. Thanks a lot man.

[Raptrex 0]

hey guys post the avatar you madeill post mine later once i find the scenes i want

[etan 0]

i like the tut but where can I find show clips?

[Raptrex 0]

that you must get yourself