question, how can I get a smooth running Sig?

I use Ulead Gif maker.. However getting the screen caps from Video files is what causes it to be so jumpy, what do most here use?

the best one I did was my JAL one.

SubaruWRX wrote:

question, how can I get a smooth running Sig? I use Ulead Gif maker.. However getting the screen caps from Video files is what causes it to be so jumpy, what do most here use? the best one I did was my JAL one.

talking about how to get your yu yamada one smoother? i thought she was already smooth,
don't know how to work the gif's much, bmwracer helped me with my nana one's.

maybe I can get some help on this.

Your sigs don't look jumpy to me.

bmwracer wrote:

Your sigs don't look jumpy to me.

I agree, All 3 of them look really nice.
Which one was it that you think looked a bit unsatisfying to you Suburu??
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I think every1 wot mine 1 is based it so obvious

K.T.Tran wrote:

I agree, All 3 of them look really nice. Which one was it that you think looked a bit unsatisfying to you Suburu??

Dang, K.T. two animated gifs for a total of 1.5MB??

And I'm worrying about mine which is only 300KB.

bmwracer wrote:

Dang, K.T. two animated gifs for a total of 1.5MB?? And I'm worrying about mine which is only 300KB.

I know.....I worry I'm lagging those who are using Dial-up

Don't worry about yours BMW, 300KB is just fine...especially if you compare it to how big both of mine are
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K.T.Tran wrote:

I know.....I worry I'm lagging those who are using Dial-up

Like me.

Don't sweat it... Everybody else seems to have giganto gifs as well...

K.T.Tran wrote:

I agree, All 3 of them look really nice. Which one was it that you think looked a bit unsatisfying to you Suburu??

The Yamada one.. see how it jumps back to the first frame?

I really need my new sigs to work right..

If they turn out like I hope they will they will be nice.

It was a huge pain! most Japanese CM sites stream the CM's which means I had to hook my computer's out montor to my camera and tape the CM, them bring it back to the Computer, thats the hard part, now I just need to get the part I need.
When you do your sigs do you take it frame by frame? or skip a few frames?

My JAL sig is the best i've done so far.

SubaruWRX wrote:

The Yamada one.. see how it jumps back to the first frame?

You might wanna try tweening the last frame with the first frame... Maybe that'll smooth the transition when the gif restarts at the beginning...

I did.. I added a few of the same frames but did not help.. it just made hre Freeze, then still jump like it does now. :-/

wow just to let everyone know I found a program!

and I never knew I had it!

Adobe ImageReady that came with Photoshop CS2!

Yeah!! w00t wait until you see the new ones!

I might have to redo my Yuuu Sigs over again

Here are some tests..

SubaruWRX wrote:

wow just to let everyone know I found a program! and I never knew I had it! Adobe ImageReady that came with Photoshop CS2! Yeah!! w00t wait until you see the new ones! I might have to redo my Yuuu Sigs over again Here are some tests..

looks good, must be easy for you to use, you are good with computers...

SubaruWRX wrote:

When you do your sigs do you take it frame by frame? or skip a few frames? My JAL sig is the best i've done so far.

I had to take out some frames to make it look a bit better and to make the file a bit smaller too.

Your JAL sig is really nice

@BMW: I never new what the tweening did, but if you say it'll smooth out things out, I think i'll try it later to see how it works and understand it
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ok this is somewhat final...

until I can find some Yuu Cm's I not going to put up the old one. it's not smooth enough.

If I had known this back then, I could of got the part where they had a close up of her hips

bmwracer wrote:

Like me. Don't sweat it... Everybody else seems to have giganto gifs as well...

When it hiccups my broadband connection, I know there's some sigs up ahead. Thank goodness for caches, so people, please don't change the images often.

I've got Fiber Optic internet.

speaking of sig sizes, this site is actually pretty tame; only a handful uses 500kb+ sigs...
On d-addicts, there are lots of ppl with multi-mb sigs

filesize shouldn't be too big an issue since browsers usually store gifs in cache. its the frames per second that slows down the pc so i usually try to set fps to a small number, 6-7fps, so it doesnt slow down other folks....

you can check if your sigs eat too much resources by looking at task manager... if cpu goes up to 100% when your looking at your sigs and nothing else, then you miht want to slow down ur fps... ^_^
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K.T.Tran wrote:

@BMW: I never new what the tweening did, but if you say it'll smooth out things out, I think i'll try it later to see how it works and understand it

The downside of tweening is that it'll make the file sizes bigger.

Arnel is the king of animated gifs... Maybe he's got some pointers.