Fx GIF to Movie Tutorial

In this exercise we will start with a very large and complex GIF animation, add an audio file and save as an MPEG-1 movie.

Click here to download the Fx GIF to movie converter setup.

To follow this tutorial you may wish to download the below resources. To download, right click on the link and from the popup menu select Save Target As...

• FishTank.gif
• FishTank_128kbps.mp3

Step-by-step illustration:

Click the browse button and navigate to the source GIF file:

This is the XP interface. The Vista dialog is similar.

Next we browse to the location of the sound file that we want to include.

This is an optional step. Leaving the text box blank will produce a silent movie.

Finally we browse to the location where we want to save our movie and type in a name using either AVI or MPG as the file extension.

Click start and wait until the process is complete.

In this example the audio file is considerably longer in duration than the video so the sound stream is truncated to match the video duration. If the sound file had been shorter it would have played to the end and the video would have continued silently.

This is the converted mpeg movie with sound that we produced.

Tutorial.mpg