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    Convert a fla file to animated gif?

    Please help me! i've made a banner in flash advertising an event coming up soon. I need to convert it to an animated gif image so that i can have it as my signiture on forums. I tried publishing it as a gif image but it only saved the first frame - please help me - your knowledge would be extremely appreciated cheers

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    I have yet to come across a solution of doing this, never really thought about it before. Have you tried dropping the frame rate so each stays on for say 4 seconds, giving you time to take a screenshot of each?

    This way you can create a .gif and copy each frame into the gif ...

    (Just an idea, there maybe an easier way)
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    I've seen some info on how to do it - it says you have to publish it as gif image by unchecking the other publishing options on the file > publish settings option. also you can modify the file path so that it saves it as a gif - but none of these seem to work!

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    i've used a decompiler to take something like that apart. Then once it's "decompiled" you have the images, and putting them into a rotating gif wouldn't be difficult... but the fla is definitely going to run better than the rotator.

    sothink has a nice decompiler...

    Vivvy

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    If you have fireworks, I'm lead to believe you can do it "automatically" via that. Not sure, I don't own a copy of fireworks.
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    if you can't get it to work still, you could always use something like Snapz Pro to capture the image.

    http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/

    Works really well - i can even capture 800x600 gameplay on my 1Ghz processor.
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    .fla to gif

    This is a very simple process. The difficulty that others may have had are most likely due to an incorrect setting for the movie's symbols. If you have the animation in a movie clip, it may not export to an animated gif properly. The elements you want to export to an animated gif should be a Graphic Symbol and they should be on the stage of the movie itself. If you have a movie clip you can copy and paste the elements into a graphic symbol and place them on the stage so that you may export them. The only trouble that I have run into is slight color conversions. You may need to knock the graphic's colors down to websafe 216. I have also corrected the colors in ImageReady after export from the fla to gif. If you are still having trouble post your questions here.

    Zoren
    Last edited by Zoren; 04-30-2004 at 04:33 PM.

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    i dont use fla sh anymore and its not installed on my comp, but there should be a setting under the file menu called "Export Movie As..." or something like that. Hit that, in your choice of filetypes to save as, hit ANIMATED gif. Make sure its animated, I believe there are 2 gif settings

    Edit:

    Go To File-->Export Movie...
    Input File Name
    Select Animated gif, not gif sequence
    Last edited by e39m5; 04-30-2004 at 05:32 PM.

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    I had this problem as well. I think you need the latest version or just save the frames one by one.

    There is also a tool (freeware if iam correct) that does the same thing, but unfortunatelly i lost it's name.

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