Animated GIF as overlay?

[Cantisque]

As title asks, is there a way to insert an animated GIF (along with transparency) onto the timeline as an overlay track?

[BrianCee]

I have never found a way of just relying on transparency for animated GIF's - if the areas you want transparent are fairly uniform in colour have you thought about just using Chroma Key


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[Cantisque]

That would work as well, as these are GIFs I make myself, but I can't actually find a way of adding them to the timeline. They just appear as static images that don't animated, at least in X8.

[BrianCee]

Strange - mine work fine

download and unzip the attachment and you should have a very short gif (5 frames) which works on my X8 - see if it works for you

4_colorful_bears.zip

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[Cantisque]

Thanks a lot Brian, I will give it a try later on and see what happens

[Cantisque]

Hmm, still no luck.

I drag the GIF into the media library, then insert it onto the overlay track. It doesn't animate. Am I missing a step?

[BrianCee]

See if you can download and unzip the attachment and play the resultant video

Capture 07.zip

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[Cantisque]

Yeah mine doesn't behave that way at all. Here's a video of what happens when I try.
http://expirebox.com/download/64bbd3338 ... a7500.html

(I couldn't attach it because 500kb limit)

[BrianCee]

So I see

[rwernyei]

Make sure you have Quicktime installed. Old Ulead software and now Corel require Quicktime to be installed to have animated gif support. Hope this helps.

[Cantisque]

I tried re-installing both VS and Quicktime, unfortunately this did not help .