Animated Gif

[kerpluxal webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I am using an animated gif in my movie. I created the gif to play 4 times then stop. When I import the gif into director, it plays a continual loop and does not stop. What am I doing wrong?

[kalder]

Creating the animated gif you have to set only one loop proprety, anyway I
prefer to use movieloop.
MK

"kerpluxal" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> I am using an animated gif in my movie. I created the gif to play 4 times

then stop. When I import the gif into director, it plays a continual loop
and does not stop. What am I doing wrong?

>
>

[Roman Blöth]

kalder wrote:

> Creating the animated gif you have to set only one loop proprety, anyway I
> prefer to use movieloop.

>>I am using an animated gif in my movie. I created the gif to play 4 times

>
> then stop. When I import the gif into director, it plays a continual loop
> and does not stop. What am I doing wrong?

As far as I know, Director does _not_ handle animated GIFs quite well -
had the same problem before. Director will either loop animated GIFs
forever or never - so there are two workarounds for this:

1. When creating the animated GIF, make the last picture stay for the
longest time possible, hoping that during the run of the projector, the
user will never see this loop to "wrap" around (then you'd have to
"manually" loop the GIF 4 times, so that one single loop will show your
original animation four times in order).

2. Import the single pictures into Director and make a film loop instead
of using the animated GIF.


Best regards,
Roman.

[AJJA17 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi,

I recently read a solution to this one.
Import the gif animation into flash, make it repeat for the required number of times, export it as a .swf file and then import this into director.

Regards
AJJA17


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[Darrel Hoffman]

"Roman Blöth" <bloeth@gosub.de> wrote in message news:bod875$1ciq4g$1@ID-72995.news.uni-berlin.de...

> kalder wrote:
>

> > Creating the animated gif you have to set only one loop proprety, anyway I
> > prefer to use movieloop.

>

> >>I am using an animated gif in my movie. I created the gif to play 4 times

> >
> > then stop. When I import the gif into director, it plays a continual loop
> > and does not stop. What am I doing wrong?

>
> As far as I know, Director does _not_ handle animated GIFs quite well -
> had the same problem before. Director will either loop animated GIFs
> forever or never - so there are two workarounds for this:
>
> 1. When creating the animated GIF, make the last picture stay for the
> longest time possible, hoping that during the run of the projector, the
> user will never see this loop to "wrap" around (then you'd have to
> "manually" loop the GIF 4 times, so that one single loop will show your
> original animation four times in order).
>
> 2. Import the single pictures into Director and make a film loop instead
> of using the animated GIF.

3. Start a timer when the GIF first appears. Find out how long it takes the GIF to run through 4 times. After this amount of time
has passed, swap out the GIF member with a straight bitmap version of the last frame.