Thank you so much! I have trouble exporting through Media Encoder (Dynamic Link error that I am unable to fix), and your method of using Photoshop instead worked very well, plus you have a llot of control over the output size and quality.
That worked great! Thanks. I was wondering if you know of any good ways to handle motion blur when using alpha transparency? I like to use the effect and the animations look good but once transformed into a gif, the semi-transparent pixels of the blur become white (or other solid 100% opacity colors). Maybe there's a way to preserve some degree of transparency? I've definitely seen this effect in other peoples animated gifs.
Never mind, found the answer... in Photoshop you turn on the Diffusion Transparency Dither setting (or any of the other transparency dithers) and it will handle the motion blur issue. Motion blur away! 😋
I got an even faster way. Use the frame rate setting in your composition. Export your animation as an H.264 MP4 video with no audio in media encoder. Export that mp4 into a folder. Open photoshop, navigate to file>import>video to frames. Then, save export to web and legacy…. You got yourself a gif in the desired frame rate you want. I usually work in 12, 24, 29.97, or 30 frames (rarely 15 but it happens)
Yes, that works! You can also export a .mp4 directly from After Effects instead of using Media Encoder, which can be even faster. I like exporting a PNG sequence instead of a .mp4 because it tends to be better quality, but either work!
This post explains why that happens and what you can do about it: graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15549/how-can-i-remove-the-white-pixels-around-the-edges-when-exporting-a-transparent
When opening the images in Photoshop, make sure you have “Image Sequence” checked. This is shown at 5:00 in the video. If that wasn’t the issue, let me know and we can keep troubleshooting.
@@animation-explained thanks for the suggestion but it wasn't the issue :< i had a sequence of 800 images and i lowered it to 400 in case it was a file processing issue but the problem persisted and I'm baffled.
It’s so frustrating that the media encounter limits its export options and exports at such an incredible large file size. This is completely unforgivable.
