Hey Wammers,

I have been playing around with my software and wanted to see what you all thought of a large 4 scene Gif that I made. I am getting ready to update my profile and not sure if I should continue doing the smaller one pie at a time Gif, or some of these larger, multi scene Gifs. What do you all think??

These might be too big. UMD is on a finite server after all, and there is also a point where many people's computer's can't handle them. Take a look at this thread, particularly MM's first reply where he says, "I might have to ban .gifs..."

https://umd.net/forums/automatic-image-resizing

At 87.5 MB my (old) computer nearly chokes on the first one. Made a smaller version shrinking the dimensions by 60% from 1016x679 pixels to 610x408, but it still weighed in at a robust 32.4 MB due to its length of 18 seconds. Compare the ParisPosx4.gif here https://umd.net/forums/pfg-suggestions#460259 which while still fairly large at 705x476 pixels, it weighs in at a not too bad 4.9 MB because the length is only 2.3 seconds. In the end of course they are equally long because they loop forever!

Don't mean to be a killjoy, just pointing out that there is a limit. Maybe you can start a Youtube account and upload the big boys there?

Thanks for the gifs. They are Great.

Too big... Tried to download on my phone and it nearly crashed it. Great concept, but needs a bit of work on size...

I'd rather just have your excellent single GIFs. There's no advantage to multi-GIFs -- you can't watch all 4 at once afterall.

I'd just use Imgur or Gfycat. Both can convert GIFs into HTML5 videos. For example:

http://gfycat.com/PresentDeepIndianelephant

That 154MB GIF is now a 7MB video.

Thanks MrFred! Haven't seen that gfycat.com before, very cool idea. The homepage is a bit CPU intensive at first, but just right-click that large autoplaying video and choose "Pause" to stop that noise. Of course one should probably get a producer's permission before uploading their stuff there so they can look over the TOS and such: gfycat.com/terms. To me, multiple GIF displays are a visual feast. Pretty sure I'd enjoy Mr_Pies' efforts if I could only load them!

Hmmm..... Wonder how hard it would be to programmatically "gfycat" (convert) GIFs here. [pokes bear]

exellent, a regal...