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roccons
April 5th, 2006, 02:04 PM
I would like to know how can I automatically generate several files from an animated gif.
If you have used images for section titles in an html page you know that it's a bit tedious and time-consuming to generate each title by hand.
I'm trying to find a way to automate the process of generating the titles images for a website I'm working on and I already have some ideas:
Using flash I can put all the section titles in an array, create a dynamic text and assign a variable to it. Then, I will make that the variable loads the next item of the array each next frame. Then I select file->export->movie->as animated gif and I have one file with all my titles.
This is pretty cool (I think), but it's completely worthless if I need to open then the animated gif and manually copy each frame to individual files. Do you catch me?
If I find a program/technique to convert that animated gif to several gif files in one step, the whole process will became really useful.
Any ideas?

.soulty
April 6th, 2006, 08:45 AM
i would have a look at image ready and conditional actions.