Ok, so I have a flash video file of a scene from a movie. I took a series of screen caps to use in a gif. Now I have made it into a gif and edited the length of it, but I want to take away the black bars at the top and bottom of the screencaps (because the flash video is in letterbox format) so I can shrink it to fit as a 100-pixel-high sig without the actual picture being teeny. Does anyone know a program that I can use to cut the black bars off of the gif on every frame without having to edit every single frame individually?
I have Ulead, can you explain to me how to do it, or like, where the function is or what it is called?
Just reduce the vertical canvas size by the sum of the pixels the strips take up vertically, making sure that it's done from the middle of the image (9 squares in the dialog box, select the middle one).
ok thanks I was fiddling around with that earlier but thought that I was doing it wrong so I didn't pursue I'll check it out and get back to you
I use gimp and just select what I want to keep and then crop to selection and it crops all frames at once
ok, well I trimmed it, but it's HUGE (3 MB) I don't think I can use it as a sig, but it'll be cool to have anyway
Try setting the number of colours to fewer and compress it with a little loss in the optimisation tab of the program. That or halve the number of frames and double the time they're displayed for. Sentence final preposition ftw
ok so I uploaded it and saved it as my sig, but it doesn't show up on my posts...does vB automatically block it if is too big? edit: nevermind, it just took a couple of minutes to upload....what do you guys think? it's not artistic at all, it's just a favorite scene of mine
