Exporting gif animation frames

**aridzone** · 09 June 2011, 03:22 PM

I would like to be able to take a gif animation and export all frames.
I have software that does this but it would be nice if xara offered it built in.

**Soquili** · 09 June 2011, 03:33 PM

Import the animated .gif into a normal document then use the export each layer to a file of it's own.

**aridzone** · 10 June 2011, 07:05 PM

Bill

Doesn't seem to work for me.
This gif animation has 20 something frames.
I only get 2 png files on export.

**zaphodeist** · 10 June 2011, 08:05 PM

Has to be a 'drawing' document and not a 'web' document or 'animation document. And 'import' not drag'n'drop into doc.

**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.