Does anyone who how to making moving GIF icons?

[sango2sakura]

I want to know how to turn movie clips into GIF icons, like this one-

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f220/sango2sakura/Avatars%20Icons/bd6dc59076165cedda43f275d6de21fc.gif

I am not sure if I have to have another program, or a newer version of photoshop.

[Wendy]

Hi ...

... and welcome to the forum :)

This is quite a nice easy tutorials showing how to do animation ... although it says at the it is for Photoshop the instructions are also there for Elements :)

http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/animation/animation.htm

Do let us know how you go on with it ...

Wendy

[sango2sakura]

Thanx alot of that. Really cool, but what I meant was, if I had a video clip. How could I make that into a GIF icon?

[Wendy]

Hi ...

Oh sorry about that ... I guess that you would be using Premiere for that and I am a Mac user so can;t help ...

Try reposting your question in the Premiere section as you get more people answering it in there :)

Wendy

[Byron Gale]

sango2sakura,

I am unaware of any automatic way to do this with PSE.... but there IS a way to do it.

You don't say which version of PSE you're using -- I have done this with PSE5.

In the Editor, click File > Import > Frame From Video...

Select and open the source video.

Position the pointer so that your first frame is in view, then click the Grab Frame button. This creates a new image in the Editor containing just that frame.

Advance the frame in your preferred way -- you can drag it with the mouse, but I prefer to tap the arrow keys to go one frame at a time. Grab Frame, again, to create a second file in Editor containing the second frame.

Repeat until you have all of the frames you wish -- then click Done to close the Frame From Video dialog.

Assemble your multiple, single-frame images into a single, multi-layer document. I begin by selecting the first frame I captured, then use the Move tool to drag/drop the second frame into the first. (I hold down SHIFT as I release it so it is automatically centered) Then I drag/drop the third image into the first, then the fourth into the first... etc.

This creates a muti-layer document, with each successive image/frame as a new layer.

When finished, click File > Save for Web... ...set the file type to GIF, select the Animate option, and set the Frame Delay you like. (for live video, a Frame Delay of 0 looks best to me) Make sure that Loop is enabled if you want the animation to repeat automatically.

Click OK to name and save your animation.

Here's a quick (poor!) one I made while documenting these steps...

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HTH,

Byron

[sango2sakura]

Wow! Thank you so much! That was what I was looking for!
Hate to bug you even more, but do you know how to make one clip last longer then another clip? I tried to figure it out, but when I changed the setting, it changed for all of them.

[Byron Gale]

...do you know how to make one clip last longer then another clip?...With PSE, all of the frames have the same delay. You can simulate a longer delay by duplicating the specific frame in the layer stack so that it appears that the frame lasts longer, when it is actually just identical consecutive frames.

This is how "archy" (...my avatar) is made to appear to pause as he wanders around.

Byron

[sango2sakura]

Yeah that is what I ended up doing anyways.
I was just hoping there was an easier way to do this.
But thanx so much for all the help.