Apparently I need to learn to compress better

[Kendjin]

I decided to make a short GIF, its 9.8MB

 

[Kendjin]

 

Smaller!

[Nosebleed]

http://ezgif.com

for all GIF optimization and compression purposes!

[Kynbound]

hmm tried to make a gif and got 5,7MB

 

 

Think im gonna stick to just images

[Kynbound]

Thats from Shuffle! Its the anime adaptation of the visual novel

[Kendjin]

 

10.7MB

 

How is quality?

 

Wait a minute, I've gone the wrong way.

[Kendjin]

hmm tried to make a gif and got 5,7MB

 

 

 

Think im gonna stick to just images

What did you use? That's a good size!

[Kynbound]

i used the default options of photoshop to make that one

 

just grabbed a video i had on my computer and cut it

[Kendjin]

i used the default options of photoshop to make that one

 

Huh, why was mine 10MB in photoshop then

[Kynbound]

Maybe because the quality is better? Or maybe you have some extra options in photoshop?

[Kendjin]

 

Turns out this is only 2.5MB, I think it depends on the content too.

[Kynbound]

Cute scenes =less size then

It is now proved

[Steve]

Gif was never meant to be used for videos so for use on web you need to stick to like 1-2 sec videos of about 20-30 frames.

To greatly reduce size of gif, you need to reduce the frames, you dont need 30fps like a video does, 10 is more than enough and that is already reducing the size in half from what you used in your last image (you used 20fps, 0.05 in photoshop, just remove every other frame and set the timer to 0.1) Then also there was no need for 256 colors, 128 was enough (that can be maybe 10% reduction). See, first image is your 2.5MB, mine is 1.1MB and you cant really tell the difference unless you inspect it closely.
 

[shcboomer]

Basically what Steve said is true, it's all about the amount of frames when it comes to overall size of the animated GIF.

[Kendjin]

Steve just said goodbye to free time

[Kendjin]

Thanks Steve

 

[Steve]

NP xD

I can say it here as well since I only told Kendjin on TS.

To easily make gifs from anime, you need photoshop 32bit and staxrip and some prerequisites (manually install quicktime for photoshop import). Then you need the stuff to decode the anime and encode the video into x264 MP4.

Staxrip will tell you what you miss and you can use the Setup option to quickly isntall all the needed stuff (avisnyth, h264 etc, it will all do automatically if you miss it and you just click next next etc), then you just open the anime file, go the Preview function and there you select the area you want to use for the gif. In staxrip select no audio so it doesn't waste your time doing audio.

Once the video is done, in photoshop you go to File > import > video frames to layer, limit to every 3 frames. Open the animation window (window > animation) and there shift select all the frames and set speed to 0.12 (that's little over 8fps = 1/3 of anime speed 24fps). Then go to file > save for web and devices. There you play with the stuff, you can try 64 colors or 128, depending on what you want, resize the image to the size you want (max 300x300 for TS gif avatar ) and save it (dont forget to set infinite loop).

 

And there you have it, any scene from any anime in like 5 mintues

(for moving camera scenes like this you might want to try something like 0.08 for every 2 frames from anime to make it a bit smoother but works fine even like this every 3rd frame)

 

[Kendjin]

Completely forgot about color depth

 

256 color - 0.1sec - 3 frame skip - 4.96MB

 

128 color - 0.1sec - 3 frame skip - 4.47MB

 

 

Due to the large changes I think there isn't a lot to be saved by dropping the color depth in this one, but any saving is a saving.

[Kynbound]

 

Hmm close enough

[Kendjin]

256 color - 0.04sec - 3 frame skip - 9.6MB

 

128 color - 0.1sec - 3 frame skip - 5.1MB

[solidbatman]

And here I was thinking this was a thread about Kendjin doing hot compresses for a sore back. 

[Kendjin]

The post before yours Bats, that's why your ships no longer fly

[Kendjin]

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