Adding video clips to photoshop?

[Melomaniacal]

I just have a few questions about adding a video clip to a photoshop signature:

1. What format is best? (When I make my clip into a .gif, it ends up all choppy and... bad)
2. Is Gimp better or worse for this?
3. Do I need to have Imageready? Is there a way to do this without Imageready?
and most importantly...
4. How do I do this?

Any help would be fantastic, thanks in advanced.

 

[IDK]

figure it out yet? i'm guessing you used it in that sig?

 

[Melomaniacal]

figure it out yet? i'm guessing you used it in that sig?

Sorta, I just ended up making a gif (took forever, haha). I was more asking if you could import a video file, but I guess this gets the job done.

 

[deepseadiva]

Why was the Q&A thread closed? I was going to start a new thread, but conveniently, I'll just ask here seeing as my question is somewhat similar.

I want to add a moving gif into my sig.

^
That being the image in question, with my sig below.

My problem is I can't "use" the gif. The animation window just gives me the first frame and I can't get it to "play." I'm really just stuck with a photo of the first frame of the gif.

Help?

 

[Melomaniacal]

Why was the Q&A thread closed? I was going to start a new thread, but conveniently, I'll just ask here seeing as my question is somewhat similar.

I want to add a moving gif into my sig.

^
That being the image in question, with my sig below.

My problem is I can't "use" the gif. The animation window just gives me the first frame and I can't get it to "play." I'm really just stuck with a photo of the first frame of the gif.

Help?

I'm not sure if there's a better way of doing it, but here's how I did it.
Put the video in Windows Movie Maker (I know it sucks), took a picture of each individual frame. Then I put each frame as a different layer into Photoshop, went in animations options, and essentially made a gif out of them. Just make each animation layer the next frame, and it should work.

Hope that helps.

 

[deepseadiva]

I use a Mac.

 

[Melomaniacal]

I use a Mac.

I'm not very familiar with Mac video software, but can you take individual screen shots of each frame? If you can, just save them all into a folder, label them by what frame they are, and continue with Photoshop.

 

[deepseadiva]

'kay, so I've managed to grab all the individual frames and have them as layers atop each other in PS.

Problem is, they're all in random order.

:freak:

I really don't want to fit all 143 frames in order. I'm looking for some easier way to this...

 

[Melomaniacal]

'kay, so I've managed to grab all the individual frames and have them as layers atop each other in PS.

Problem is, they're all in random order.

:freak:

I really don't want to fit all 143 frames in order. I'm looking for some easier way to this...

You might have to. I did, and yes, it took a long-*** time.