gif vs. mp4
gif vs. mp4
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- akiersky0
300K is pretty small for an mp4, a gif is not going to be any smaller at that resolution.
What's the animation for? I think usually the usage dictates the filetype. A gif might be nice for something very short, or that is part of the interface. But if the animation stands on it's own or has photorealistic elements a video is going to be much better.
Maybe an html5 video with flash fallback, kinda like this:
<video autoplay loop width="1280" height="720">
<source src="video.webm" type="video/webm;">
<source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4;">
<source src="video" type="video/ogg;">
<object width="940" height="529" id="swfFallback">
<param name="movie" value="swfVideo.swf">
.... (other swf fallback stuff)
</object>
</video>- maybe it can be done with 6 colors and at 2 FPS, we don't knowmonospaced