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11-11-2013 09:25 AM |
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Originally Posted by Simply Red
(Post 10177105)
Weird - maybe not - wonder how they botched that gif?
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/qZowK0NAvig" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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A GIF education.
Well, animated GIFs, really.
Gif is a file structure used for pictures, but it also allows for frames, and so an animated gif is just a series of frames, often used to play a short movie-like clip.
As with all things, there is a tradeoff between file size and quality.
You can have a high quality animated gif, but it might be huge, take long to load, etc.
One way to eliminate un-needed size is to reduce the motion in the animation. Because data from the non-moving parts of the frame only need to be included once, it reduces the file's size.
Other advantages are the ability to loop with less background disturbance, directs the focus, etc.
A lot of these animated gifs take advantage of that, so you'll see parts of the frame that don't belong, like the ears in this example.
So, for these, it's not simply a short clip that's been looped in an animated gif.
If you watch, you'll see it in a lot of animated gifs.
Class dismissed.
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