Deleting Duplicate Frames In Ulead GIF Animator 5

Mastermind2002 · Post by **Mastermind2002** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 4:36 am

Sometimes when I load a AVI video into Ulead GIF Animator 5 It produces a duplicate frame after every other frame. Is there a method to delete these duplicate frames without doing it manually frame by frame? Also would there be some kind of plug in out there that I could get to achieve this goal? Thanks for any help you may provide.

PS: If the GIF in my sig is inappropriate I'll remove it.

Post by **VikingAnimations** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:14 am

Nope. Unfortunately, GA 5 imports each frame from the video file, whether it's an avi or other format, and manual deletion of the duplicates is necessary.

Mastermind2002 · Post by **Mastermind2002** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:15 am

VikingAnimations wrote:Nope. Unfortunately, GA 5 imports each frame from the video file, whether it's an avi or other format, and manual deletion of the duplicates is necessary.

Thanks for the reply. Manually deleting duplicate frames can be a pain in the behind. I have one more question for you.

Do you know if Ulead plans to release a another version of GIF Animator any time soon with more features? If they do intend to make a another version I want to write to them about getting a automatic duplicate frame deletion feature added.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:47 am

Video files are not really meant to be converted to gif. There are better formats available these days to stream video from a web site. Hence, I doubt that even a new version of GA would offer that functionality. Incidentally, GA does not create these duplicate frames, they are a part of our TV standard, each frame consists of 2 fields which are interlaced. GA renders each field as a separate frame, I guess.

You could try to convert the file to frame based first and see if you still get two images per frame.

Post by **VikingAnimations** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:16 pm

We're just moderators here... they don't tell us about new versions, unfortunately... A new version is long overdue, in my opinion.

As for your suggestion, I'm guessing that would take some programming... each frame imported would have to be compared to the last one imported, and computer programs can't as readily "see" whether or not an image is the same. It's all bits... one image that looks the same to us may not look the same in bits and bytes. Nice idea, though...