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| nss68 |
| Posted: Sep 10 2003, 10:40 PM |
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i just recently got this program, and since my computer is too slow, i am asking for help so i dont need to expiriment with it myself, how can i take a small clip from a movie and make it into an animated gif? |
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| fccHandler |
| Posted: Sep 11 2003, 05:28 AM |
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Most likely Adobe Premiere and Ulead can do this. Unfortunately the LZW compression used in GIFs is patented, so I doubt you'll find a free program to make animated GIFs. 
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| nss68 |
| Posted: Sep 11 2003, 10:54 AM |
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thank you, then i am going to buy adobe premiere, thanx |
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| Ingolf |
| Posted: Sep 11 2003, 12:07 PM |
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Tons of software can create animated gifs, among my favourites are Paint Shop Pro:
http://www.jasc.com/
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| Kippesoep |
| Posted: Sep 11 2003, 07:30 PM |
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IIRC, The LZW patent expired in the US on June 20th 2003 and in the EU on June 18th of either 2003 or 2004 (depending on whether Unisys paid the fees to the EU patent office). |
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| fccHandler |
| Posted: Sep 12 2003, 05:12 AM |
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| QUOTE (Kippesoep @ Sep 11 2003, 03:30 PM) | | The LZW patent expired |
Wow, so the QuickBasic GIF encoder I wrote 10 years ago is legal now? 
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| Kippesoep |
| Posted: Sep 12 2003, 06:01 AM |
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If you're not in the EU, then yes. (Then again, a GIF encoder might not actually need to use LZW, so it might be "legal" anyway). Software patents are evil  .
BTW, kudos on actually writing a GIF encoder in QuickBasic. That would seem to me to be a lot harder than in, say, Turbo Pascal or Turbo C, because of Basic's rather awkward file and binary data handling.  |
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| fccHandler |
| Posted: Sep 12 2003, 08:23 AM |
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 Thanks for the kudos. But 10 years ago I had no knowledge of Pascal or C, so that would've been way harder for me. Back then all I knew was ASM and BASIC. (But I knew all the tricks!)
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