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Movie export to animated gif with PE 9 (Win7)

Mar 21, 2012 2:33 AM

Tags: #premiere_elements_9

Hallo

a new project requires to export a movie to a animated gif.

Basically i wonder in every project i made the option file/export is disabled.

So could anyone tell me how i export a project as a animated git in a customized output size and colour depth?

I couldnt find it under "Share" too.

 

Any ideas?

 

All the best

Ronny

1456 Views   17 Replies   Latest reply: Steve Grisetti, Mar 22, 2012 6:50 AM
 
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  • Nash_John
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    1. Nash_John,
    Mar 21, 2012 2:38 AM   in reply to Ronnic2
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    Refer to this thread

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/3547937#3547937

     
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  • Ronnic2
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    2. Ronnic2,
    Mar 21, 2012 3:03 AM   in reply to Nash_John
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    Sorry, but this is not really helpful for me because the movies in Youtube shows the "file/export"- Option for exporting the project as a animated gif. But this is the point - while i try to export - it was disabled. Is there any other way to export my Project as this kind of gif?

     
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  • Robert J. Johnston
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    3. Robert J. Johnston,
    Mar 21, 2012 3:36 AM   in reply to Ronnic2
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    Hi Ronnic2,

     

    You can't export to GIF in PRE9 or PRE10. The export option is for exporting titles.

     

    If you also have Photoshop Elements 9, you might be able to create animated GIFs. I know you can in version PSE10. You can even grab frames from certain types of video files, and then assemble those individual frames into one document, where each frame is one layer in the document. Then save as to a COMPUSERVE GIF. That opens up another window for additional GIF settings where you can specify the length of time each frame (layer) is to be displayed.

     
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  • Ronnic2
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    4. Ronnic2,
    Mar 21, 2012 4:06 AM   in reply to Robert J. Johnston
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    Should i buy a "premiere pro" version? I need a pretty cool handling solution for creating a animated gif with bluring, tweening an moving images.

     
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  • Steve Grisetti
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    5. Steve Grisetti,
    Mar 21, 2012 4:56 AM   in reply to Ronnic2
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    Photoshop Pro 5.5 would be your best solution.

     
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  • nealeh
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    6. nealeh,
    Mar 21, 2012 7:07 AM   in reply to Ronnic2
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    From the help files it does indeed say that PRE10 can export an animated gif, although all the YouTube tutorials look to be PRE8 or earlier. Contact Adobe Support direct (use the Contact Adobe button at the bottom of this page) and if they tell you how to do it post the answer back here please.

     

    PRE10 Help:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premiereelements/using/WSBD5B7B44-D473-43a d-BC9D-77F546DC27F0.html

     

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  • Steve Grisetti
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    7. Steve Grisetti,
    Mar 21, 2012 7:13 AM   in reply to nealeh
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    The animated gifs Premiere Elements can output are very problematic.

     

    They are too large to be used on a web site and, when the color range is reduced in order to reduce their size, they look awful!

     

    Photoshop Pro is really the way to go for creating animated gifs. That's one of the things it's specifically designed to do!

     
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  • Bill Hunt
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    8. Bill Hunt,
    Mar 21, 2012 7:18 AM   in reply to Ronnic2
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    PrPro will not be what you want. Those are the domain of image editing programs, or animated GIF creation programs.

     

    I agree with Steve, that Photoshop CS 5.5 - Extended would be the best program for doing what you want. The Extended version has much more extensive Video handling, but do some planning first, as it cannot handle ALL of the Video formats/CODEC, that PrE can. There ARE limitations, so check into those, and just Share (as stated, Export has been greatly trimmed) to a format/CODEC, that PS-Extended can read.

     

    There are also other animated GIF programs, and some are free. However, most are designed around a workflow, where one Imports a sequence of stills, in lieu of Video, and then builds the animated GIF. Other image editors, like Fireworks, can export to animated GIF, but am not sure about the handling of Video as the source.

     

    Good luck,

     

    Hunt

     
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    9. nealeh,
    Mar 21, 2012 7:19 AM   in reply to Steve Grisetti
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    It's bugging me though Steve. I have no need to produce an animated gif from PRE, but the fact that I know it can be done yet I can't see how to do it will give me sleepless nights

     

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    Mar 21, 2012 7:22 AM   in reply to Bill Hunt
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    Bill Hunt wrote:

     

    There are also other animated GIF programs, and some are free. However, most are designed around a workflow, where one Imports a sequence of stills, in lieu of Video, and then builds the animated GIF. Other image editors, like Fireworks, can export to animated GIF, but am not sure about the handling of Video as the source.

     

    And PRE can export a video as a sequence of still images that could probably be loaded to one of those tools.

     

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  • Bill Hunt
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    11. Bill Hunt,
    Mar 21, 2012 7:23 AM   in reply to nealeh
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    Neale,

     

    That is a good point, and one that I would explore, if I was doing animated GIF's.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Hunt

     
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  • Ronnic2
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    12. Ronnic2,
    Mar 21, 2012 2:10 PM   in reply to Ronnic2
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    Hi Guys

    for first - thanks for answering.

     

    My current workflow: Creating a movie sequence in PE9 in the width and height i need. Than i import the movie-file into CAMTASIA STUDIO 7.  So i can convert it into an animamtet gif. Now i make some tests concerning color-depth an compression quality for optimizing the reslults. I dont give up - an will report my results here.

     

    Thanks again

     

    Bye Ronny

     
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  • Steve Grisetti
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    13. Steve Grisetti,
    Mar 21, 2012 2:29 PM   in reply to Ronnic2
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    I'm still curious what you ultimately plan to do with it, Ronnic.

     

    Are you going to use it on a web site? If so, I hope that part of your testing will involve posting it to a site and seeing how long it takes to stream over the net. (There's a reason, after all, that the web traditonally uses WMVs, MOVs and above all FLVs.)

     
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  • Ronnic2
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    Mar 22, 2012 4:03 AM   in reply to Ronnic2
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    It´s an argument Steve. So i told it to my client.

    And, oh wonder.... he told me it can be also converted into a flashformat. The format for the flashbanner he need is 468x60 pix.

    Can i set this size as a preset for my project in PE9? I know i can set the flash-output formats/size but i need this prefered size for layouting my tweenings of images inside my project window.

     

    Any suggestions?

     
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  • Steve Grisetti
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    15. Steve Grisetti,
    Mar 22, 2012 4:49 AM   in reply to Ronnic2
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    You can output FLVs from Premiere Elements -- but, once again, it's not the ideal tool for the job. Not if you're hoping to create custom sizes, like 468x60.

     

    In that case, the program you want is Adobe Flash. Or possibly Photoshop Pro 5.5.

     

    But Premiere Elements is the probably the worst program for creating looping web animations. It's just not designed to do that!

     
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  • Ronnic2
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    Mar 22, 2012 5:25 AM   in reply to Ronnic2
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    i guess Photoshop isn´t the right Tool. This is for static images only. In PS you can not realize projects like blurred textlines in motion or dynamic skaling images moving along a predefined line like a wave. You would be crazy to realize it with hundred of layers. Ok, Adobe Flash would be an option but currently in dont have it. Primarily i need blurred and moving textline, furthermore soft fading  in/out blending effects. PE is the only option i can imagine for realizing this job.

     
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  • Steve Grisetti
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    17. Steve Grisetti,
    Mar 22, 2012 6:50 AM   in reply to Ronnic2
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    You'd be surprised how much animations and how many animation effects you can do in Photoshop CS5.5 -- even moreso in 6 (which is just now in public beta).

     

    So you can do this in Premiere Elements if you want to attempt it. But, believe me, it's not the right tool for the job. You can't create a custom-sized output space, your video won't be optimized for the web, reducing color space is going to look horrible, etc.

     
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