Re: FLASH: flash: convert to gif's

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At the exact moment of 2000.02.01.22.41, her/his local time, steve drake

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sdrakeglobal-motion [dot] com

> put forth:


> hi all,

> 

> i’m building a bunch of flash banners i need to convert them to gif files

> and i’m not happy with the results i get when i export them to gif within

> flash.  the banners have limited animation and less than 16 colors.  when i

> export them at 16 colors to keep the file size down the quality is very bad.

> any ideas?


Have you set Dither to Diffusion in the Publish Settings?


If that's not good enough for you, try publishing at maximum number of colors

(never *minimize* a gif in Flash because you have no or at least *very little*

control over the process -- do it in Fireworks). Web Safe 216 should be a fine

setting if you only use Flash's standard palette of colors (which is, by the

way, "Web Safe 216", by sheer coincidence)). Take the gif animation into

Fireworks. Selectively tweak (preview window) to get the best balance between

appearance and size.


BTW, by "limited animation" do you mean that, *first time through only*, the

animation is jerky? This is to be expected with any large animated gif files ...

DL (download) time is the factor. Do you really need to have so many colors in

your banner ad? Many banner ads purposefully limit the number of colors in order

to hasten DL time. So tell us, how big is your animated gif?


HTH,


Ken Sherwood


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                    http://www.kensherwood.com/zenkat.htm


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