Problem with making HD gifs with Photoshop CS5 extented

[Valentina Elizabeth]

Hello, I hope somebody can help me,
I've recently learned how to make gifs from videos with photoshop. Today I've decided to use HD files to make better quality gifs and it worked fine. I made about 3 gifs. Then photoshop stopped working. It just won't open the animation. As soon as I add the file and select the bit of video I need, it shuts down. It's only a problem with HD files (from a dvd rip). It doesn't happen with smaller files. Does anybody know what's wrong?
Please help!

 

[Paul]

Try downloading the video in HD then Open Photoshop (32-bit) / File / Import / Video Frames to Layers / Select part of the video you want to use / Save for Web & Devices / .gif / and Save.

 

[Hoogle]

Photoshop will only accept Avi files or quicktime videos stabley it gives options for mpegs etc but I rarely get it to work. A gif is also a compressed file format and supports 256 colours not sure if this can be tweaked so HD video only really needs to have 256 colours. you may also have to limit the frames as anything over 200 frames on the import pjhotoshop will begin to struggle and could actually lead to a gif animation being a larger file size than the original video.

 

[Valentina Elizabeth]

Try downloading the video in HD then Open Photoshop (32-bit) / File / Import / Video Frames to Layers / Select part of the video you want to use / Save for Web & Devices / .gif / and Save.

That's what I've been doing. It works with low size files, but it crushes with bigger ones (but sometimes it works and creates the frames, it's driving me nuts).

 

[Valentina Elizabeth]

Photoshop will only accept Avi files or quicktime videos stabley it gives options for mpegs etc but I rarely get it to work. A gif is also a compressed file format and supports 256 colours not sure if this can be tweaked so HD video only really needs to have 256 colours. you may also have to limit the frames as anything over 200 frames on the import pjhotoshop will begin to struggle and could actually lead to a gif animation being a larger file size than the original video.

I'm using Mov files and it has always opened them, even the HD (rarely, though) Also I'm only making gifs with about 30-40 frames, even less so I don't think that's a problem.

 

[Hoogle]

I cant see how your making HD gifs that are millions of colours into 256 colours and still calling it HD

 

[Hoogle]

Take a look at my avatar for example that was originally made with 1000's of colours created with 2000 particles all a different shade composed at 24.97 frames a second the minimum to be classified as hd it was a clear sharp image but as soon as you save for web device it gets blurry and compressed. So I really dont see why your trying to import 40 frames of HD quality thats 40 layers of an image size of 1920 x 1080 pixels so without anything added to it or complicated animation \ colours you are looking at a gif size of + 400 MBs even after you have compressed it to 256 colours you are still looking at a huge file. And then there is a case of most sites will not support such large image sizes for animation. hee we can only see animation at 500 x 500 pixels anything over that it just shows 1 frame. But we have built in support to show the file in an external window at full size and animated. of course that is dependant on the viewers internet connection. so to load a 100 mb image will take some people a long time and if that is if they stay waiting for it to load.

 

[Valentina Elizabeth]

I'm sorry, with HD I don't mean a 400MB gif. I said they're HD compared to the smaller quality video I used before (and can still use with no problem) such as videos downloaded off youtube. The problem is when I use videos ripped off my own DVDs which are much better quality.