Animated GIFs are ridiculously large - why?
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From: Quircus on 26 Jul 2008 12:54 Hi all, I cannot figure out why the animated GIFs I am exporting are so massive in file size. For example, I import a small 5-frame 650Byte GIF. I edit the size of the canvas to pad it to a square (from 54x40 to 54x54, or something like that), then I save it with the following settings: Animated GIF Exact Palette 0 Loss 4 Colours (5 including alpha channel) No dither And it comes out as 64.4KB. How can the file size increase by 100 times with barely any change? Even if I import it, change nothing and save the file with the same settings as above, it's still 64.4KB. Is Fireworks padding the file with unnecessary information or something? Thanks for any help, John.
From: Murray *ACE* on 26 Jul 2008 12:57 Animated GIF are large. But let's see your PNG file, please. -- Murray --- ICQ 71997575 Adobe Community Expert (If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!) ================== http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources ================== "Quircus" <webforumsuser(a)macromedia.com> wrote in message news:g6fkt0$iut$1(a)forums.macromedia.com... > Hi all, > > I cannot figure out why the animated GIFs I am exporting are so massive in > file size. For example, I import a small 5-frame 650Byte GIF. I edit the > size > of the canvas to pad it to a square (from 54x40 to 54x54, or something > like > that), then I save it with the following settings: > > Animated GIF > Exact Palette > 0 Loss > 4 Colours (5 including alpha channel) > No dither > > And it comes out as 64.4KB. How can the file size increase by 100 times > with > barely any change? Even if I import it, change nothing and save the file > with > the same settings as above, it's still 64.4KB. Is Fireworks padding the > file > with unnecessary information or something? > > > Thanks for any help, > > John. > > >
From: Quircus on 26 Jul 2008 13:57 But the original image is an animated GIF and it's less than 1KB big! So how does it increase in size 100 times when I save it [i]even if I don't change anything about the image before saving[/i]? There is no PNG file but I can link you to the original 650 Byte Animated GIF: http://www.aotplaza.com/Prod.gif Is it something to do with my settings perhaps? Like telling it to save extra information in the file?
From: Murray *ACE* on 26 Jul 2008 14:50 > But the original image is an animated GIF and it's less than 1KB big! So > how > does it increase in size 100 times when I save it [i]even if I don't > change > anything about the image before saving[/i]? There is no PNG file but I can > link > you to the original 650 Byte Animated GIF: I'm confused. What is this I am looking at. What have you done to it to make it increase in weight? -- Murray --- ICQ 71997575 Adobe Community Expert (If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!) ================== http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources ================== "Quircus" <webforumsuser(a)macromedia.com> wrote in message news:g6fohk$mip$1(a)forums.macromedia.com... > But the original image is an animated GIF and it's less than 1KB big! So > how > does it increase in size 100 times when I save it [i]even if I don't > change > anything about the image before saving[/i]? There is no PNG file but I can > link > you to the original 650 Byte Animated GIF: > > http://www.aotplaza.com/Prod.gif > > Is it something to do with my settings perhaps? Like telling it to save > extra > information in the file? >
From: pixlor on 26 Jul 2008 18:49
Don't "Save As..." because that saves all the proprietary Fireworks format metadata. Instead, choose "Export" or "Image Preview" and then set your export options to export. |