Nationalsolo Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Hi Whilst replying to another post I noticed an unexpected problem. I had used a third party program (Irfanview) to extract the gif images from an animated gif file in order to reconstruct the animation with VP and check for the presence or not of a black frame at the end of the outputed sequence which was the subject of the post. The black frame was present in the animation and I removed it, renamed the animation and then extracted all the images from the animation. All the gif images saved as expected to a named folder. Each had been numbered sequentially and had a .gif extension and were labelled as an IrfanView GIF file. e.g. GIFTEST NOBF_frame_0005.gif (This meant GIFTEST No Black Frame) I then opened VP (Version 4.00) and dragged the gif images en masse into the media list window. Here I noticed that they were listed as GIFTEST NOBF_frame_0005.avi and a copy of each (also labelled .avi) had been placed into the saved image location (in this case the desktop) This rather messed things up a bit 1) Why has the extension been changed from .gif to .avi when copied to the media list? 2) Why has a copy of each .gif file been made in the "Save" location..also as .avi? Is this a bug please? Nat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_major Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Hi Nat, VideoPad handles some media formats indirectly. They are converted to avi files. The files are normally in Libraries\Videos. If you add a gif file to the media list, it will be always be treated as a video file. To construct a video from image sequences please use File->Add Image Sequence as Video. Best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nationalsolo Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 Hi c-major Thanks for the reply. I will find that a very useful feature. I hadn't used it before. Some of my club Astro presentations require an avi animation instead of an animated gif, particularly as I save most presentations as an .exe file in which animated gif don't play.. Conversion programs I have tried don't work as I wish but this feature is ideal! Regards Nat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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