Animated GIF Fix?

With the recent releases of KN 4.0.2, OS 10.5.2 and the Graphics update today, I was hoping that Keynote would better handle transparency in animated GIF images. I haven't seen any change but am wondering if anyone else has been able to get transparent GIF animations to work?
Thanks,
Chris

I'm having this same problem. Animated GIFs with transparency look fine in Safari or Preview, but have an opaque background in Keynote 4.0.1.
People have suggested using Flash, but Keynote doesn't allow importation SWF files that I can see.
And I can't figure out how to generate PNG-video, which a poster suggested in answer to an archived version of this same problem.
If anyone knows a workaround, I'm all ears!

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HI,
Empty the Safari Cache from the Safari Menu Bar more often.
Go to the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari/Preferences. Make note of all the preferences under each tab. Quit Safari. Now go to ~/Library/Preferences and move this file com.apple.safari.plist to the Desktop.
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Hello!
Just for fun i was planning to edit a animated football tackle gif. I was planning to remove the player who tackle in each and every frame of the animated gif. So it would take some time to finish.
I have successfully opened the gif in CS6 via import Video Frames to Layers.
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I have a weather-type animated GIF, and believe me, it is not
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idea, but anyway I need to get this working.
Here it is:
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Hi Anthony:
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Anthony Bollinger wrote:
> "Linda Rathgeber **Adobe Community Expert - Fireworks**"
<[email protected]>
> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>> The lower the number, the faster and smoother the
animation. It needs more
>> frames to make it really smooth.
>
> Linda! Thanks for the reply!
>
> I sort of get what you are saying . . . but I guess I
don't understand why
> the numbers for each frame don't work. I don't have the
"raw materials" to
> supply frames in between the existing ones, although I
might be able to work
> up something. But let me make sure we are connecting.
>
> I think you are saying the animation takes "jumps" --
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> what is needed. The whole problem is those jumps are not
even, although I
> have given fireworks identical numbers for each frame.
We slowed the
> animation down so that it would not be so annoying (it
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> somewhere around 10 per frame and I changed it to 50,
then 100).
>
> The whole problem with this animation is that frame 2
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> than the other frames, even though I have told it to
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> the PNG file. This must be a bug with either the
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> engine, or FW. Looks like the best way to fix it is to
change the frame 2
> value to 50, which is just a hack. I wondered if anyone
has encountered
> this before. There is nothing wrong with the PNG file,
so this has to be a
> bug.
>
> Thanks!
> Tony
>
>

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rpk5000 wrote:
This is where you're wrong. Dipshits like you post **** like this all the time when it's readily available information that can be searched for WITHOUT >hosing up our forums.Great, give me a link, or even a search term to use on google or these forums. Before you give me search terms, you might want to actually check and make sure the answer is somewhere there...are you out of your freakin mind?!?!?!
go to google and type "java gif animation"
you think you're the first person to want to do this?!?!
moreover, search the forums here
you think you're the first person to ask for this here?!?!
You would think "repainting an imageicon animated gif java" would give a page that has the answer on it within the first 10 results but....
I'm looking for a page that simply says, take your imageicon and call.... (repaint();) or whatever to make it run one more time.Did you even read the API for ImageIcon! It took me 2 seconds to find the information for animating gifs as imageicons.
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Critical thinking people. Don't we teach this in schools any more?!
When it becomes an Internet joke (http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/plz-email-me-teh-codez.aspx) about how bad the sun forums are, well, you really need to reconsider what you want to do with your life.
LMAO! You are the daily WTF!
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frames, the animated gif display the colors but without transparency for those colors, but the background is transparent as expected.
I am not sure if I should IndexGif89Frame or DirectGif89Frame for the colors from the Gif89encoder package.
Is there anyone got the same problem and knows how to fix it?
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