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I am trying to export these gifs with transparency and I am still getting the background with transparency selected in publish settings. Does anyone know a way to remove the background and just have a transparent gif?
I just found a method so you can export your Flash movie as an animated gif with transparency.What I have done is create a folder and then export as a png sequence. Then you go into Abobe Bridge select all the png images in your folder under Bridge select Photoshop>Tools>Load files into Layers. Once you are back in Photoshop view the Timeline dialog box, pull down the arrow on upper right hand corner and Make Frames from Layers. If you like at this point you can Select All Frames in the pull dow
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use the anmiated playback option (even though you're not animating anything).
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Well this is an animated .gif. of about 1 sec of animation with a stop action at the end so I am using the animated playback option with a repeat of 1.
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then what's the problem? (just set transparent to anything but opaque in the properties panel.)
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the problem is if I change my flash background to something other than white and check the gif in a browser the black background shows. I want this animation to have a transparent background like swfs can do for banners.
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are you setting the transparent property on your gif publish-properties panel?
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Kglad, did you try it yourself? If you are still trying to export gif via File -> Export Image... It doesn't work even if you set the transparency to CHECKED.
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Yep changed it to green and the green shows up on the last frame animation. That's just freakin annoying.
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Sounds like a bug to me.
1) Try changing number of frames.
- if you add frames, do more frames became non-transparent?
- if you remove frames, will the non-transparent frame go away?
2) Is there something special about the last frame? Blending modes, filters, ...
3) If the affected frame is always the last one no matter the framecount, add one blank frame more and then remove it in some GIF-editing software
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There are two ways of saving GIF:
1) File -> Export -> GIF -> Transparent: true
- exports with opaque background, I don't know why but it does
2) Publish settings -> OTHER FORMATS -> GIF Image -> COLORS -> Transparent: Alpha (default Opaque)
- publish the movie and you get transparent GIF
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Ok Peter I tried your alpha trick and it does seem to hide the background except for the very last frame does not show transparent. It shows the black background. Any suggestions?
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Are you sure it's the background color? Isn't it some forgotten artwork? Change background color to whatever (except black ) and try again. I can't reproduce this one, sorry.
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the file settings do nothing. it's the publish settings that should be used.
you have it right. nerdy syntax does not.
this pretty well explains it:
2) Publish settings -> OTHER FORMATS -> GIF Image -> COLORS -> Transparent: (ANYTHING BUT OPAQUE WILL WORK)
- publish the movie and you get transparent GIF
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Kglad I do? I looked at the setting peter linked and I have then exactly the same. What is OTHER FORMATS? In publish settings I check GIF and set transparency to transparent or opaque as Peter described. ALSO I dont have the option for COLORS. Do you mean max colors?
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COLORS is just an expanding button in Publish settings, see the picture I attached earlier. By default, it's collapsed.
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Yea you must be using cs5.5. I don't have an expanded option in cs5. Just has all the same options when you click on GIF. And yea I added an extra frame with a blank keyframe but the stop action is a frame before it and when I check the gif everything disappears. Looks as if the stop action means nothing since it repeats just once. I think something is wrong.
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Right, GIF export ignores all the ActionScript. What do you mean "everything dissapears"? Like the output is blank GIF or the last frame of GIF is blank? In latter case, ins't the last frame blank? Can you share the *.fla file? Looks like a looong conversation ahead of us
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you can't use actionscript of any kind in an animated gif. you can only use the gif panel in the publish settings to control its behavior.
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Yea took the actionscript out. Still doesn't explain the problems. To Peter, I added the blank frame but I dont know gif editing software so thats why it was showing everything disappearing now that I notice that actionscript doesn't work. So yea I'm clueless. I can't show you the files because they are the client. Later on I will create something and I will continue this thread with the added .fla.
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And set Publish Settings -> GIF -> COLORS -> Transparent: Alpha
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I just found a method so you can export your Flash movie as an animated gif with transparency.What I have done is create a folder and then export as a png sequence. Then you go into Abobe Bridge select all the png images in your folder under Bridge select Photoshop>Tools>Load files into Layers. Once you are back in Photoshop view the Timeline dialog box, pull down the arrow on upper right hand corner and Make Frames from Layers. If you like at this point you can Select All Frames in the pull down arrow in the upper right hand corner of the dialog box. Then select one frame for the duration of frame, which will set all the frames to this durarion. Then choose the number of times you want it to repeat. Once you have it like you want simply Save for Web and then in the Save for Web dialog box choose gif. Now you'll have your animated gif with transparent background.
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Thanks rafhicks, your solution worked for me using cc 2015!!
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Flash was once leading technology, way ahead of HTML+CSS and it degraded so much that SWF's are replaced with animated GIFs these days. But it degraded even further - it cant even export animated gif with transparent background.
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same question.... I can't believe how can a software become worse this way...