Can I use an animated GIF in my VS 12 Pro project?
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Can I use an animated GIF in my VS 12 Pro project?
I'm planning a video project in which an animated gif could provide some punch for my logo and such. Does anyone have experience doing this? And if it does work, should I use a green background so that I can chroma key it into the production?
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Welcome to the forums,
Yes you can use animated GIFs, however you need to insert it as a video, not an image, for VS to play the animation. Green is always a better, or easier color to chroma-key. You can actually use any color that is not part of your image/video that is to be viewed.
Yes you can use animated GIFs, however you need to insert it as a video, not an image, for VS to play the animation. Green is always a better, or easier color to chroma-key. You can actually use any color that is not part of your image/video that is to be viewed.
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That's wonderful news. How long will the animated gif be as a video? Will I need to change the settings so it is not unlimited time frame? I'm guessing I should.
Does anyone have examples of using an animated gif in a video I could see?
Does anyone have examples of using an animated gif in a video I could see?
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That's rather like asking "how long is a piece of string?"!!How long will the animated gif be as a video?
The answer of course is that it needs to be as long as you need it to be!!
More seriously, only you will know how long -- and over what scenes -- you want the GIF to appear. Once you work that out, then you 'trim' the GIF to that length, insert the GIF in one of the VS overlay tracks and do your chroma-keying.
Good luck!
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As Ken advised your animated GIF can be as long as you want it to be. However they do not loop inside a video. The looping that is asociated with animated GIF's are web based, for the internet.
You have to be aware that if your animated GIF logo is say only 5 frames, it's going to be just a blip. If you're in PAL areas, there are 25 frames per second of video, for NTSC there are 29.97. Adjust your animated GIF accordingly.
You have to be aware that if your animated GIF logo is say only 5 frames, it's going to be just a blip. If you're in PAL areas, there are 25 frames per second of video, for NTSC there are 29.97. Adjust your animated GIF accordingly.
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