quality gif animation
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- shoto_can
i made a few in after effects, then the image sequence in photoshop, etc
the photoshop gif export has a poor quality, and a big filezise
then the ae export has a big filesize
how do you compress in a good quality one of these good-looking cinematic animated gifs?
- GeorgesII0
export as quicktime
then open in photoshop and save for web as Gif- -1jadrian_uk
- Care to explain why, 'jadrian_uk'?detritus
- are you a fool ? it expresses the contrary of the request.jadrian_uk
- Rather a fool who knows what he's on about than an autist shooting for points.detritus
- so why you ask?jadrian_uk
- shooting for points? haha that's you pathetic idiot.jadrian_uk
- *yawndetritus
- *gayjadrian_uk
- shoto_can0
save for web as gif has the worst quality, that's what i'm talking about
- fadein110
you can change the quality - put it all on maximum - colours etc... there's a limit with gifs but photoshop allows any setting
- shoto_can0
ok, hope to make it as these fellas do, good compression it's always a problem.
- kewHexton0
check this thread
http://www.qbn.com/topics/654277…
- Miesfan0
Here, something...
http://www.theatlantic.com/techn…
- detritus0
I'm curious to know why you've written Photoshop off.
imo, it's the best thing for quality output, given you can directly tweak colour palettes, masks, then refine for output.
I imagine that half the work in making these GIFs is in preparing the file, reducing pixel noise and getting the most out of the palette.
I'm sure there is software that could be used to further reduce the exported output from Photoshop (eg Fireworks, et al), but then you're talking relatively small improvements.
The key reason these 'high fashion gifs' work well is that they've been carefully thought about in advance. I doubt there's much magic beyond hard work.
- animatedgif0
understand the actual tools and technologies you are working with.
From the sounds of it you don't know how the gif format actually works, which would explain why you can't get them to output well.
- u explain thenshoto_can
- ...google it, it's all documented onlineanimatedgif
- BaskerviIle0
Ok, I've had a play over my lunchbreak and I know how to do it now.
Basically if you were to take a piece of footage from after effects and export as an animated gif you will get a pretty nasty quality and large file size.
Photoshop is the key, but not simply importing a .mov into PS.The way animated gifs work is as a series of individual gifs played in sequence. Like a movie file, the less colours and movement, the smaller the file size.
If you notice in the gif below, for most of the animation the the gif is static. That is, the area in the image around the movement (the table and chairs, the street etc) is completely static, this means there is no change in pixels from frame to frame which means less colour/data, which means smaller file size.
The way to do it, is to make sure the movement in your animation is restricted to a small area, then mask off the rest of the image. So just take one frame and use that to mask the rest of the animation. In PS all you need to do is import a .mov then create a new layer and make your static mask on that layer.
Then obviously when you export you need to tweak the settings, be selective about reducing the colour palette of the gif etc.
I made this gif of 'here's johnny' by importing as a .mov to PS, then masking the wood of the door so that it never moves from frame to frame (in the original shot the camera is moving slightly), the filesize is 737kb, comparable to the filesize on frommetoyou tumblr
obviously the less actual movement you have the smaller the filesize (this is where big pauses will keep your filesize down).
the reason the gifs on this site look so good is because they're shot well, and masked well:
http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/t…the filesize is small because they're all 70% static images.
- detritus0
Exactly, Baskerville — good job!
This is the reason it's so important to stabilise sequences from movies and such, choosing a single alignment point, cutting the frame to size, then working the mask from there.
It's quite surprising how much judder there is in a lot of seemingly still movie shots. Not that that applies with these fashion GIFs, mind — presumably they're taken from strictly fixed positions.
- dskz0
- shoto_can0
nice case baskerville
i did similar
worked in ae, exported image sequence(i did the masking there)
or sometimes directly exported from the .mov footage
then you have alot of frames in ps animation timeline
i never tried with .mov masked in ps
the thing i don't like is the colour limitation in save for web as a gif(am i wrong?) which goes pixelate- gifs by their nature limit the colour palette no way around that.BaskerviIle