Hello, On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Krishna Revuru <krevuru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > GIMP-Dev-team, > I was trying to create an animated GIF on a Linux-machine and after quite > some google-ing I came across the below site > > http://nativeraving.blogspot.com/2007/11/creating-animated-gif-files-with-ubuntu.html > The summary of steps described in this site to create an animated GIF from a > video file are: > First you need a program called "Avidemux" > Once you have that installed you need to launch it and open the video that > you want to chop. > Select the part of the video that you want to use as an animation using the > A/ and /B buttons. > A/ = Beginning > /B = End > Now you need to save your selection as JPEG files. > In Avidemux go to > File>Save>Save Selection as JPEG images... > Save the project to a new folder, then view the files in their folder and > delete any unwanted frames. > Next, fire up F-Spot photo manager, import the folder: > File>Import > To resize the frames we will need to export them. > In F-Spot you will need to click on browse and then hit CTRL+A to choose the > frames > Then export them: > File>Export>Export to folder... > Then reduce the amount of pixels to resize the frames. > Next you need to fire up the GIMP and open the first frame. > Next we need to open all the frames as layers. > To do this we need to go to our first frame and go to the menu: > File>Open as layers > Browse to the folder with all the frames in it and hit CTRL+A > Then hold CTRL and click on your first frame to deselect it and then open > the files. > Hit CTRL+L, that will bring up the layers. > To preview your animated image simply go to the picture window then: > Filters>Animation>Playback and hit play. > To help reduce the file size go to: > Filters>Animation>Optimize (for GIF) > All you have to do now is save the image as a GIF and choose to save it as > an animation. > Given this scenario, I wanted to request a feature that I believe will be > handy for a lot of users with similar requirements. > Is there any way we can add a feature that takes in a pre-cut image and > makes an animated GIF out of it? > I understand GIMP is more for Image-editing and not Video-editing, but if > there is a provision from within GIMP to cut specific section from a video > file and convert to an animated GIF then it will be a superlative feature. Use GIMP-GAP. This makes such a task very simple AFAIK: 1. Load (part of) a video file as a GAP animation, using the Video->Split video into Frames submenu 2. Convert it to a conventional GIMP animation using Video->Frames to Image 3. Save the resulting image as a GIF. David _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
