Exporting gif animation frames

**aridzone** · 10 June 2011, 09:31 PM

Have you looked at those gif files?
They look like crap

**zaphodeist** · 10 June 2011, 09:59 PM

PNG's actually :-) Just trying to help. Animated gifs are 256 colour max. You can export them as non-transparent, depends what the final use is

**Soquili** · 11 June 2011, 12:19 AM

How was the animation created? Was it made in a Xara app?

**aridzone** · 17 June 2011, 06:13 PM

Bill it was created in coral
I would like it for any gif

**ShapeShifter** · 17 June 2011, 11:49 PM

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

**Soquili** · 18 June 2011, 12:45 AM

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** · 18 June 2011, 01:13 AM

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** · 18 June 2011, 09:27 AM

Originally Posted by Soquili

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