Wednesday, July 6, 2011

How to create High Quality GIF in Flash?

Level: Moderately Easy Instructions
This is the first method to obtain high quality GIF from FLA . You can check also the second method here.Sometimes we need to use GIF instead of SWF as GIF format supports transparency and it is helpful in case of you cannot upload SWF or you want to assure the accessibility to everyone regardless he has flash player or not, as flash player somtimes has compatibility issues with some browsers.
Read on to learn how to create and optimize GIF format in Flash

When creating your animation in Flash, make sure not to use any Movie Clips with self contained animation for it will be lost in the conversion process.


open the Publish Settings window by clicking File>Publish Settings.

On the Formats tab, check "GIF Image, then click the GIF tab that appears at the top of the window



check "Match Movie" to puplish the image to be the same size as the Flash movie, and uncheck "Match Movie if you want to change the size, 

Keep the same width/height ratio to avoid any distortion in the image.
Select "Animated" from the Playback options to set the Flash movie to publish as a frame-by-frame GIF animation.
Click "Loop Continuously" if you want the GIF to continue playing indefinitely; also the animation can be repeated for a specific number of times.
Select the following options:
Optimize Colors,Dither Solids, Interlace, Remove Gradients and smooth 

Palette type: adaptive

Max colors: 9999

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