Help with gif / movie

turboash78

turboash78

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Turboash
Hi all.

I need some help. Our office Christmas party wants to project falling snowflakes on the wall... like this:



It needs to be fairly hi res and looping, so I was thinking a gif?

Also, there is no internet access where the party is taking place.

Any help would be appreciated!
 
Making a gif high res will kill you in making it, uploading it and not to mention others because they have to download it (even if it is a few frames long).

Plus gifs are old school, use APNG is the future.
 
He can easily download the video and play it in a loop in a computer video player(VLC, Windows Media Player, etc...). He said the place he is going to does not have internet and they were going to project the video using a projector(I'd assume that since he said "project").

I personally used Youtube Downloader HD and it gets great quality.
 
And it's much too bad PS doesn't support it. Gif Movie Gear does though. I'll look into that.
 
Don't think APNG has been picked up yet. "The Funny GIF thread" still exists and not to mention the big GIF websites are still up using GIF despite being an obsolete format. Plus APNG files are pretty large compared to a GIF file when I quickly checked.
 
Large because you are not dealing with a color palette from the 1990s, but full 32bit color.
 
I've seen GIF's done very well for color. It does not mean that APNG will not catch on but I doubt it. With APNG you could be dealing with double the storage on a webserver. Thus double the bandwidth spent. Take turboash78's avatar for example. His avatar is 16.55KB in size and it could be possible to be double the size if it was APNG. I know that PNG could be compressed better than GIF but once you use APNG you are dealing with frames and that adds to the size.

If Jordan could step in I'd like his opinion if APNG is a viable option on a website.
 

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