DX and animated Gifs

Saturday, January 12, 2008 by WeatherBound | Discussion: DesktopX

Is there a way to import a Animated gif into DX?

I am using Beneton Movie Gif.

Dx does not support Gif files.

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SirSmiley
Reply #1 Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:44 PM
Can't be done. I'm not sure but, wonder if this has to do with GIF licensing?

Google Bitstrip. It's an old program that converts a gif animation into a horizontal or vertical bitmap strip. Then edit it in an image editor & save as a png.

BeeArther
Reply #2 Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:43 PM
if you can't find Bitstrip - get Irfanview (it's free)
use Irfanview to extract all frames, then put them back together a a pngstrip using AniUtil

WeatherBound
Reply #3 Saturday, January 12, 2008 3:43 PM
Thanks SirSmiley and BeeArther.

I will give them a try.

SirSmiley
Reply #4 Saturday, January 12, 2008 6:48 PM
Softpedia has Bitstrip(19kb) since redlar's site is kaput. You could also use GifSplitter which will split the images into separate images.

if you can't find Bitstrip - get Irfanview (it's free)
use Irfanview to extract all frames, then put them back together a a pngstrip using AniUtil


Interesting, didn't know Irfanview could do this. Does it extract the frames to a transparent png?

BeeArther
Reply #5 Saturday, January 12, 2008 9:19 PM
Does it extract the frames to a transparent png?


nope

extracts to separate gif frames - but will keep tranparency if selected in the options

for those you extract with no transparency, you can run them through Giffy (getting kinda a hard to find)

WeatherBound
Reply #6 Sunday, January 13, 2008 10:47 AM
Well, I tried to download BitStrip but none of the websites will let me download

Tried Irfanview, But I must not be understanding how to do it.

Can you please give me a step by step on how to do it. If you have the time.

I can get png animated but everything is not in right size and color is all changed.

Thanks for the help

Bichur
Reply #7 Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:23 PM
hey WeatherBound

send me the gif at earthlink.net

WeatherBound
Reply #8 Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:38 PM
Thanks Bichur,

I have been messing around with Paint.net and came up with the right png graphic and the used the AniUtil and it worked Awesome.

Boy this will change the way I make DX themes

Thanks everyone for your Help

BoXXi
Reply #9 Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:42 PM
I would use Image Ready, you can put it into Photoshop then and do what you want with it.

(Image ready comes with Photoshop)

WeatherBound
Reply #10 Sunday, January 13, 2008 3:00 PM
Boxxi

I would use Image Ready, you can put it into Photoshop then and do what you want with it.


I wish I would have Photoshop. Maybe one day in the future.

Thanks

Bichur
Reply #11 Sunday, January 13, 2008 3:26 PM
I have been messing around with Paint.net and came up with the right png graphic and the used the AniUtil and it worked Awesome.



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