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Viewing GIFs
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This might seem stupid, but what is a good program to view animated GIFs. Preview will only show each frame... ColorSync Utility will only show one frame... iPhoto won't do it... The only thing that comes close is Quicktime, which I think is sad. That's one thing I really miss about Windows. In Windows, you just click enter and the animated GIFs... animate. Someone help!
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What are ou talking about?
Your browser is a great program to view animated GIFs. Drag and drop them into one sometime...
You are a great example of a former Windows user still not quite ready for prime time. Give it some
time and you'll catch on.
It's the reason you can view it in your browser to begin with...
Example:
(Last edited by budster101; Aug 19, 2005 at 12:43 PM.
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Safari can display animated GIFs.
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Whoa, that's pretty cool! It really works... even with Firefox. ^_^ I'm a new Mac user.
But I still think that's kind of weird that there's no easier way to view GIFs. It would be nice to just open a picture and it automatically works.
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Yeah, it must be rough dragging and dropping it into your browser... It's not Mac-centric. Any browser will do. (You can do a CTRL + Click on the image you wish to open and then select the program you wish to open it.
Now if you want to edit the animated gifs, that is another story.
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Animated GIFs are kind of weird. GIF is technically an image format, but animated GIFs are basically a movie. That said, QuickTime Player can play them too.
By the way, just set GIFs to open in Safari or QuickTime Player by default and you can get what you're looking for ("just open a picture and it automatically works"). If you're willing to have all GIFs open in Safari or QuickTime Player, that is.
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Ah! Preview USED to be able to play them, in 10.3. There was a Play button that you could add to the toolbar. Why, Apple, did you cripple it so?
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What is cool about Preview is it breaks it apart into frames. 185 to be exact. (Spiderman)
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Originally Posted by Apfhex
Ah! Preview USED to be able to play them, in 10.3. There was a Play button that you could add to the toolbar. Why, Apple, did you cripple it so?
Perhaps because an image viewer is not the right place to be playing movies. I didn't realize that Preview used to play them, but I'm glad they have the functionality in the right place now.
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Haha, that Spiderman GIF is funny 
Yea, best way to view animGIF is just drop the file on the Safari icon in the dock...
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If animated GIFs are movies then how come I can't preview them in the Finder a la .mov files and other Quicktime content (even when I have assigned them to always open it QT, you still can't do it)? The OP has a point, there should be an easier way to do this in the Finder.
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Because it is in fact a .gif image encoded as an animated gif... I hope this helps. The applications you are trying to use only see it as an image, and show the first frame. Other applications can decode this image. These applications are the one's it was written for.
Browsers... where else would you want to view an animated gif?
You can pull one into Flash, then you can actually make it into a quicktime movie and play it inside of Quicktime, but why would you want to?
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Graphic Converter, free on all PBs, can play animated .gif
The Spiderman animation is fantastic!
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