Animated .GIF in Fireworks

Hello everyone,
I'm trying to train myself with Fireworks so please bare with me. I'm attempting to make an animated .gif and my question is: Is there a way to insert each image to automatically fit the canvas (100 pixels X 100 pixels)? Currently I have to resize each different image to the canvas size in each State and it is very time consuming as there are approximately 90 different images (frames from a video). Furthermore, is there a way I can take all 90 images and have them inserted and sized into 90 different States automatically? Thanks for the help in advance!

A 90 frame animation is pretty hefty. You can try a batch processing operation to scale the images first, but that would assume the images are already square.
Once you have the images, though, you can choose File > Open, select all the graphics and choose the Open as Animation option in the Open File dialog box. That will put one image on each frame.
Jim Babbage

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Im not finding what I need to know.
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Thing is, I can not figure out how to pull this off in Fireworks.
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And if so, how do you control that?
Or do I make animated gifs in Photoshop and drop them into Fireworks?
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Is there a decent video tut on how to make animations in Fireworks.
I havent found it yet (nothing on Adobe TV oddly)
I have a feeling this shouldnt be that difficult but so far, it is.
I also want to have a rollover in the same layout.
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Using very complicated animated GIFs instead of Flash is like using a set of 60 spoons instead one simple shovel... :-)
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PS I don't create Flash content, but in the worst case, I can ask a fellow developer to help me...
PPS I would have created a demo with very complex Fireworks GIF animations only for the sake of pure art/pushing Fw to the limits; never in production:)

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"PZE" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:eiiu8c$pdm$[email protected]..
> You made an animated GIF in Fireworks, yes? yes
> It works? Animates as you wish? yes
> Then you insert it in DW and you see the image, yes?
no.no.no
> Static in DW (DW will NOT display the animation) but
when you preview the
> page
> in a browser it
> doesn't animate as expected? no, unfortunately not, or
else there would
> be no
> problem
>
> perhaps I am saving or exporting incorrectly. for the
animation previews
> clearly in fireworks, but then I dont get anything in
dreamweaver, neither
> static image on work page or animation in preview
> Please, I would appreciate a little clarity here for
this site has to be
> up
> tonight
> thanks for any help and explanations
>

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rollover into fireworks. i seem to be doing something wrong, i've
created the rollover button but it isn't showing up in preview in
fireworks or showing when exported dreamweaver. any idea how to fix
it? many thanks

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rollovers there. Export your two images from Fireworks, then use
Dreamweaver's menu:
Insert > Image Objects > Rollover Image
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mockups and prototypes. It is not a visual Web development tool.
When you switch from making graphics to making pages, switch from
FW to DW.

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On Thu, 04 May 2006 14:50:54 +0400, FayeC
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I use Fireworks MX 2004 at work to create animated
banners and I have
> come across a problem that I hadn't seen before.
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possibe and if so, how do you do it?
I tried using the forum search but it didn't find any
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box on the left. Click that gray box by the first frame and
the last frame
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>I have seen people say you can resize an animated GIF in
Fireworks without
> doing it one frame at a time, but nobody says exactly
how. Maybe I'm
> missing
> something simple, but is this possibe and if so, how do
you do it?
>
> I tried using the forum search but it didn't find any
results.
>
> I'm using Fireworks 9.0.1.1213 if that makes a
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>

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pcmartini wrote:
> At my test site, www.emeraldcoastdentalspa.com I have an
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I worked in Adobe FireWorks to make the animated .gif. What program do I use to convert the file from .gif to any video format: .mp4, .m4v, .avi, .wmv, etc. I want to convert it into video format, so that QuickTime Player plays the video, I can insert it into iMovie '11 and edit, and also insert it into Final Cut Pro X and edit video.

Thanks for getting back with me so promptly. It has taken me this time to connect with the proper people to find out the information you requested.
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They don't work with Macs at the studio, but I had thought I could have some lessons there in editing, and apply what I learned to my iMac and iMovie.
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Thanks again!

Why animated gif not working in webpage designed in fireworks?

Hi,
I have 2 questions. Pl. consider me a novice in this field, started just 2 days ago.
1. I have designed a website page in fireworks cs5, I have added an animated gif in the page and when I preview in browser or export the webpage.png the animated gif's background color is only shown and no animation takes place. Where as when I run the gif file only in web browser it shows animation. Why the animation doesn't show in the website. However, when i change the selection to "animated gif websnap128" at the bottom of the screen, then every element of the whole webpage alongwith the animated gif start doing animation, that is everyelement changes (animate) from state 1 to state 2 contineously.
other question is in new thread.
thanks for your help.

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I am creating a rotating banner with fireworks and I have
changed all the frame rates from default ( 7 ) to ( 100 ).
Everytime I go to optimize and change to animated gif. the frame
rates change back to ( 7 ). Somebody please help.

quote:
Originally posted by:
r_cronier
I am creating a rotating banner with fireworks and I have
changed all the frame rates from default ( 7 ) to ( 100 ).
Everytime I go to optimize and change to animated gif. the frame
rates change back to ( 7 ). Somebody please help.
What happened is that you picked a factory preset from the
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just ignore that top-most dropdown menu. Use the rest of the
options to set your values: as long as you specify Animated GIF in
the upper left dropdown menu and pick a palette, the Optimize
function still works as intended.
Btw, If you need to use your values regularly, it's a good
idea to save them as a custom preset so that will show up in the
Saved Settings menu, along with the factory presets.
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