Exporting gif animation frames

[ShapeShifter]

Try GIF Frame Extractor, it's free.
Screenshot -- http://i.imgur.com/oWSa9.jpg
Link -- http://www.evanolds.com/

[Soquili]

Corel seems to optimise the animated gif by dropping pixels from some frames, this is what caused the individual frames John exported to look so bad. Many applications for making animated gif files will use a similar technique to reduce the file size.

Xara can only export pixels that are present in a frame and cannot not include latent pixels from other frames.

[ShapeShifter]

I think you'll find that GIF Frame Extractor will do exactly what you require with that Corel animation file.
See attached zip file which shows frames 1 through to 19 without any dropped pixels.

[GerryI]

Xara can only export pixels that are present in a frame and cannot not include latent pixels from other frames.

This isn't totally correct though it doesn't automatically remove duplicate pixels from consecutive frames. Have a play with the background and overlay options in the frame gallery to see the effects you can get. Appropriate use of these options can greatly reduce the size of some animations.

Gerry

[Soquili]

Thanks Gerry. I was referring to opening an animated .gif in a drawing document and not an animation document. Using the option to export each layer to an individual file so each frame of the animation is a seperate image. When this was done an animation created within Corel exhibited missing pixels as an individual png image.

Gif animations created within Xara all perform flawless export of layers to individual files.

[aridzone]

Bill

I think this is a xara problem because other software like Irfanview and the one suggested by ShapeShifter have no problem.

[Soquili]

I see the same missing portions of each frame in GIF Movie Gear. It may share a similar algorithm for displaying animated gif frames.

[GerryI]

Yes, the program that created that animation has automatically generated all of the frames except for the first one as overlay frames by subraction of the previous frame from the current frame. To create new frames from it you will need to have all the images aligned correctly on top of each other (do they all come in at the same pixel size, if not then alignment may be tricky) and then export all of the frames from the back up to the point you want. If the import in DP does align them all nicely then you can use the page and layer gallery to hide all except the back one, export, show the next, export, etc. Certainly not as nice as the automatic export of each layer...

Gerry