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Hello, I am very new to animate and I just dont know where to find the ability to compress my file
I am exporting animated gif and I cannot compress.
I can't use the swf (which would make life easy but) I need the .gif
the file is approaching 1 MB needs be 50k or under
any help much appreciated
As Clay suggested, there are online ones. I had thought they were for GIFs and wouldn't do the right thing with animated gif. But this one does:
In my test case it did better than ImageOptim.
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There is no such thing as a non-compressed animated GIF. The format is inherently compressed.
Now, what you can do is run your output through a GIF optimizer, which can attempt to make your animation more compressible by reducing the color depth, frame rate, resolution, and various other tweaks.
But if you're seriously trying to get a 1MB animation down to 50K yeah no that's not happening.
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thanks for the feedback - is there any way to convert the swf into a gif? because the swf is only 50k
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A SWF is a computer program, not a video format. That's how Flash animations can be so compact. When you convert one to video you're just recording its output as a sequence of frames, and animated GIF is the worst, most inefficient "video" format there is.
If you want a 50K GIF you're going to have to make your animation shorter and simpler.
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Animate does have a problem when making animated gifs. It makes every frame unique instead of only storing what has changed. I haven't figured a way around that in Animate.
But, if you have a Mac you can use ImageOptim:
Drag your animated gif into its window, and in the Tools menu select Gifsicle. In my quick test I had a file go from 670k down to 56k.
If you don't have a Mac can you put the animated gif online somewhere, and I'll try?
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There are many freely available online animated GIF optimizers. All she has to do is Google them.
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I don't have mac - where would I put the file?
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As Clay suggested, there are online ones. I had thought they were for GIFs and wouldn't do the right thing with animated gif. But this one does:
In my test case it did better than ImageOptim.
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Thank you for your help. Very much appreciated.
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The above link, BTW, is literally the first thing that comes up when you Google "animated gif optimizer".
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That could be why I gave it!
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I saw - I did google. Thanks for all of the efforts.