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Creating GIFs in GIMP

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Creating GIFs in GIMP Lorgach 04 Oct 16:53
  Creating GIFs in GIMP Nik Omul 04 Oct 17:44
   Creating GIFs in GIMP Ofnuts 04 Oct 23:17
  Creating GIFs in GIMP Lorgach 09 Oct 17:48
  Creating GIFs in GIMP Lorgach 10 Oct 20:22
  Creating GIFs in GIMP Lorgach 22 Oct 01:08
   Creating GIFs in GIMP Ofnuts 22 Oct 01:26
    Creating GIFs in GIMP Alec Burgess 22 Oct 02:20
    Creating GIFs in GIMP Lorgach 22 Oct 23:13
Lorgach
2012-10-04 16:53:26 UTC (about 12 years ago)
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Creating GIFs in GIMP

Hi,
I have created an animated gif with 30 Frames/Layers that runs in the 'Loop Forever' option.

I now wish to convert this GIF to run in the 'Ping-Pong' option but cannot figure how to do this without going through the whole ‘Extract Videorange’ process again as this is the only place that I can find that will allow me the option of selecting 'Ping-Pong' when I’m selecting the short clip to create the GIF from the original AVI.

I have tried opening the GIF in the main GIMP window, then selecting the ‘Video’ dropdown then ‘Move Path’. This will open a window for some GIFs, but it wont recognise other GIFs as a valid source. Even when I can get this window to open it gives multiple error messages and I can’t figure how to import the GIF into it so that I can select the 'Ping-Pong' option in the ‘Step Mode’ field.

I am using GIMP 2.6.11 as I haven’t upgraded to the new version yet.

Any help will be appreciated.

Nik Omul
2012-10-04 17:44:48 UTC (about 12 years ago)

Creating GIFs in GIMP

As a workaround for adding ping-pong effect to your existing GIF animation install and run mirror-layers python script. You can find it here http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/

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Ofnuts
2012-10-04 23:17:25 UTC (about 12 years ago)

Creating GIFs in GIMP

On 10/04/2012 07:44 PM, Nik Omul wrote:

As a workaround for adding ping-pong effect to your existing GIF animation install and run mirror-layers python script. You can find it here http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/

And doc is here; http://gimp-tools.sourceforge.net/animationtools.shtml

Lorgach
2012-10-09 17:48:04 UTC (about 12 years ago)
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Hi Again,

Thanks for the information guys. I'll give your suggestion a try.

Lorgach
2012-10-10 20:22:52 UTC (about 12 years ago)
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Hi Again All,

Before going to the trouble of installing Python for Gimp on my laptop and then installing the 'Mirror Layers' Python script, I tried selecting the 'Ping Pong' option in the 'Extract Videorange' window. Having then gone through the exporting as a GIF etc. the Gif still just played as a continous loop with no sign of executing the Ping Pong effect ?? Has the Ping Pong option ever worked when producing GIFs in GIMP ?? Does it work in the new version of GIMP ??

Lorgach
2012-10-22 01:08:03 UTC (about 12 years ago)
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Hi All Yet Again,

When I discovered that the new version 2.8 of Gimp already has Python support incorporated in it I decided to download and install Gimp 2.8 onto my PC.

I then tried to download the ‘mirror-layers.py’ file a few times from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/ as suggested but kept just getting a page load of script on my screen, however I eventually managed to get the ‘mirror-layers.py’ file to download to my hard drive.

I then copied this file into C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\gimp-2.8\plug-ins but it does not show up when I open Gimp and select ‘Filters’ – ‘Python-fu’, I only see an item called ‘Console’.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ofnuts
2012-10-22 01:26:06 UTC (about 12 years ago)

Creating GIFs in GIMP

On 10/22/2012 03:08 AM, Lorgach wrote:

Hi All Yet Again,

When I discovered that the new version 2.8 of Gimp already has Python support incorporated in it I decided to download and install Gimp 2.8 onto my PC.

I then tried to download the ‘mirror-layers.py’ file a few times from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/ as suggested but kept just getting a page load of script on my screen, however I eventually managed to get the ‘mirror-layers.py’ file to download to my hard drive.

I then copied this file into C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\gimp-2.8\plug-ins but it does not show up when I open Gimp and select ‘Filters’ – ‘Python-fu’, I only see an item called ‘Console’.

Any help would be appreciated.

As stated in http://gimp-tools.sourceforge.net/animationtools.shtml : "The script appears in the menus as |Image/Mirror layers| and has no parameters."

Alec Burgess
2012-10-22 02:20:53 UTC (about 12 years ago)

Creating GIFs in GIMP

On 2012-10-21 21:26, Ofnuts wrote:

On 10/22/2012 03:08 AM, Lorgach wrote:

Hi All Yet Again,

When I discovered that the new version 2.8 of Gimp already has Python support incorporated in it I decided to download and install Gimp 2.8 onto my PC.

I then tried to download the ‘mirror-layers.py’ file a few times fromhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/ as suggested but kept just getting a page load of script on my screen, however I eventually managed to get the ‘mirror-layers.py’ file to download to my hard drive.

I then copied this file into C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\gimp-2.8\plug-ins but it does not show up when I open Gimp and select ‘Filters’ – ‘Python-fu’, I only see an item called ‘Console’.

Any help would be appreciated.

As stated in http://gimp-tools.sourceforge.net/animationtools.shtml : "The script appears in the menus as |Image/Mirror layers| and has no parameters."

In the general case ... I have d/l'd a script/plugin and can't find it? ... go to Help - Plug-In Browser and enter some text you would expect to find in the name of the plug-in. In this case "mirror" would probably be enough. (I can't check exactly because I don't have this plug-in)

e.g. if I type "outline" one of the two hits is to script-fu-3d-outline-logo which I can see is to be found at /File/Create/Logos

Regards ... Alec (buralex@gmail& WinLiveMess - alec.m.burgess@skype)

Lorgach
2012-10-22 23:13:43 UTC (about 12 years ago)
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As stated in http://gimp-tools.sourceforge.net/animationtools.shtml : "The script appears in the menus as |Image/Mirror layers| and has no parameters."

Hi Again All,

Many thanks Ofnuts I guess I just didn't read the instructions correctly and was looking in the wrong place. I found the Mirror Layers plugin where stated, in the Image dropdown menu. It's working perfectly and does the job exactly as I required.

Thanks again everyone for your assistance and patience in answering my queries.