I have the need to convert animated GIFs to AVIs

[tinjaw]

Thanks to some help on #donationcoder I created some animated GIFs to use as indicators that the computer was doing stuff. A percentage progress bar was not appropriate. So I created some spinning thingies to show the computer wasn't dead. Any way, it turns out AutoIt doesn't do animated GIFs, but it does do AVIs and with Auto3Lib I can do a multi-threaded splash-screen with an AVI. That would do what I need. So, I am looking for your choice for tools to do animated GIF to AVI conversions.

[lanux128]

this is good: GIF Construction Set, currently version 3.

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or this freeware: ImageToAVI

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[Nighted]

I always like GIF Movie Gear myself and still use it quite often. No gimmics, just a program for animating GIFs.

My avatar was made using GIF Movie Gear.

[app103]

Ulead GIF Animator can do this. I have never tried it for this specifically, but it does support exporting as an avi, Quicktime, or mpeg.

It does a great job of exporting as .swf too (which I have used it for).

At about $50, the price is a bit steep for one time use....and the 15 day trial is a bit short for an evaluation period.


There is a freeware version from a long time ago (v.2). I am not sure it can export as .avi or any other video format. You can take a look and see if it does.

http://encoderx.co.uk/imageeditors/

Click the link at the top that says 'GifAnimator' to download. It's the last freeware version they released.



^{Edited to include freeware edition info.}

[Maggy160]

Several screen capture programs are able to capture any motion in a region on screen to avi

[laughinglizard]

This isn't an area I know much about, but this site has been useful to others who need stuff converted.

http://media-convert.com/

Its also a good site for converting just about any other kind of file.
Its free, no ad or spyware.

Media Monkey comes highly recommended, you might have a look at it.

http://www.mediamonkey.com/product.htm