Thanks Bacchus.It think that's where you went wrong. AVI sucks balls as a video format as it's extremely low quality, you'd want to render out it as either MP4 or MKV which are the best qualities. After Effects should have options for higher qualities than AVI and at least have the MP4 format which I believe may be classed as H.264 in the format settings when you're exporting.
Look into it on Google, but I'm sure you should be able to do a higher format than that, then you can either useYou must be registered to see the linksorYou must be registered to see the linksto convert it into a gif.
Yes, I know AVI encoding is shit but as I stated later in the post that After Effects doesn't allow exporting to MP4, Mkv, WebM, etc. Though I converted it to WebM with a very insignificant loss in quality, converting it to GIF was the issue. Ezgif has some serious FPS restrictions, 5 FPS for a 60-sec clip, that just ruined the animation while using some other sites converted the 9MB video file to 50MB gif.
Gifs, in simple words, are basically like a flipbook, more FPS = more pages = more size. A GIF with the exact same quality, FPS, etc will always have a bigger size than its video counterpart. That's why most Gifs are usually 5 - 10 sec long with poor quality.
Here's the 1 min 9MB 30FPS 450x250 WebM file of the same for comparison -
TBH Ezgif is a great tool to quickly convert photos or even smaller videos if one wants to make a gif without leaving the browser. I used it quite a lot but it sucks that it doesn't allow 25+ FPS for a clip over 10 seconds.Correct. Never use online converter though, do it in Photoshop.
& I think we should leave this topic of compression & conversion before the mods hit .
coming to a more relevant topic -
Am I the only one who realized today that there's a scene where Maya (with her ugly hairstyle) & Josy (looking beautiful as ever) helps the MC with library cleaning!
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