Viewing animated gifs in preview

Anyway to view animated gifs in preview, or is there just some "play" or "animate" button i'm just not seeing?

The Tiger version of Preview was supposed to work better with animated gifs than the Panther version. Unfortunately instead of improving it they broke something and it doesn't work at all. Thus far no fix has come out in the Tiger updates. Send Apple feedback:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
The more people who complain the more likely it is to get fixed.
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Viewing Animated GIF files in Preview

Hello...
I'm trying to figure out why I cannot view animated GIF files within Preview. When I search within Preview's help I get this...
*1. Open the animated GIF file in Preview.*
*2. If the window's drawer isn't already visible, choose View > Drawer.*
*The drawer contains a thumbnail image for the animated GIF. The number of frames in the animation appears in the lower-right corner.*
*3. Click the triangle beside the thumbnail image.*
*Preview shows all the frames in the animated GIF. When you click a frame, the animation stops and Preview displays that frame.*
Now at the end of number 3 it states that "the animation stops", so according to that statment Preview should be "playing" the animation until I click a certain frame to stop it. Well mine doesn't do this, SO what's going on?
Oh, my OS is v10.4.10 and Preview is v3.0.9(409).
Thanks!

Preview in Panther did play animated gifs, although it was a bit clunky at it. Evidently they intended to fix this in Tiger, but instead they ended up breaking it completely. To play an animated gif you now need to do so in a browser, such as Safari. Preview no longer plays them at all.
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Viewing animated GIF's in Bridge

Apparently this has been an issue for a while and I don't understand why it hasn't been fixed yet, but please Adobe can you add support for previewing animated gifs in Bridge? It's ridiculous that a supposedly catch-all media browser like Bridge can't even preview this particular file type.

Agreed. Please allow Bridge to see animated GIFs in the Preview panel. We
know
it's possible. There was a build of Bridge that supported it, then it was removed:
steve guilhamet, "View Animated GIF" #1, 31 Oct 2005 4:42 pm
steve guilhamet
- 4:42pm Oct 31, 05 PST (#1 of 2) Edited: 31-Oct-2005 at 04:42pm
Adobe Photoshop Quality Engineer
Hi,
Bridge currently previews the animation in the Preview window.

Viewing animated GIFs in the Finder and Preview

I was wondering why my animated gif images do not play while I view them in the preview in the Finder or Preview. I know it plays when I view gifs in Explorer and was wondering why doesn't the Finder/Preview.
I would really like to be able to view the animated gifs without having to open either Safari or Fire Fox to view them.
Thanks

Welcome to Discussions.
Apparently Preview lost that functionality a few versions ago. And Quicklook also doesn't seem to do it. Someone said that Pathfinder plays them, http://www.cocoatech.com.
If you don't want to use a "big" program like Safari or Quicktime, then your best bet is to use a quick and easy image viewer like Xee http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/xee.html.
Set it as default application by selecting a gif file, press cmd-I. Choose Xee under Open with and click Change all.
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How to view animated gif files?

When I open them in Preview, each frame of the animation is displayed as its own image, rather than displaying as an animation.

Really? What's the secret? I tried using the Open dialog box and also drag 'n drop onto the TextEdit icon. But all either got me was an unhelpful view of the binary code for the gif. I ask because I keep looking for an easy way to see the animation--I have animated gifs turned off in both Firefox and Safari, since 99% of the time they just drive me nuts, which means in order to view that 1 in a 100 (actually more like 1 in 10000) animation I would like to see I have to launch Opera.
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How come I can't view animated gifs as animations...in websites that have..

them they are animated, but if i dwnld them, the animations stop running...and preview just allows me to view each of the still frames that make up the animation, but nothing seems to make it run...say i want it to run on my desktop for example? how would i do this?
any ideas? thanks!

ok..so far that is the closest to what i'm looking for..thanks my friend...so now my final question reclarified....on the desktop, as in files or program icons i have on the desktop..if i have a gif, that is just stored on my desktop..is there no way to animate it just directly on the desktop without having an internet app open as a transparent window? does that make sense...like wherever finder has the preview icon open for the animated gif....depending on how you have your view options of course, is there a way to have THAT animated? or is that just not possible at this stage?
and a secondary question i guess...which the more i think about it is really just another way of wording the exisitng one...is ther eany way independent of internet browser to watch a gif animation?

View Animated GIF

I have over 5000 icons, animated gifs, etc and would like to be able to preview these in Bridge with the animation.

Hi,
Bridge currently previews the animation in the Preview window. Are you asking to have animated gifs run animated in the main browser window?
Regards,
steve

Viewing animated gifs in Mail 3.2

We got an animated gif in our email. It works fine in my mail box using mail 2.1.3 (powerbook G4 10.4.11) but not on my wife's Mail 3.2 (macbook 10.5). Any fixes for that?

don't posts the requests on this forum. follow the link that I gave you (click on "here" in my first post. Apple doesn't read these forums so posting requests here is a waste of time.

Why doesn't Preview.app show me animated .gifs?

I made an animated .gif with Macromedia Fireworks and it opens up perfect on a Windows Platform. But on my MacBook only the first frame opens and stays still as a single image.
Once I open the .gif, in the Preview's Drawer, it shows me all of the single images that are supposed to be seen continously as an animation. But I repeat, no animation is played back.
Help please, thank you.
MacBook 13" Black Mac OS X (10.4.8)

This is from the preview help document. What you are seeing is what is described for preview.
Viewing animated GIFs
An animated GIF is a graphic file that shows a short animation. Preview lets you look at each frame in the animation as an individual still image.
Open the animated GIF file in Preview.
If the window's drawer isn't already visible, choose View > Drawer.
The drawer contains a thumbnail image for the animated GIF. The number of frames in the animation appears in the lower-right corner.
Click the triangle beside the thumbnail image.
Preview shows all the frames in the animated GIF. When you click a frame, the animation stops and Preview displays that frame.
Mort

Animated GIFs aren't

I can't view animated gif files ... neither in finder coverflow (which would be awesome) nor in preview.
I have to drag them to the browser to view the animations, which is unacceptable.
Is there a way to see the animations at least in preview ... or even in finders cover flow mode ?

Like, they do. If enough people are unhappy with something, and communicate their unhappiness, Apple has changed things. Case in point: stacks in the Dock killing the way people had been using folders in the Dock. The option to use folders reappeared in the first update to Leopard. Ditto for an UNtranslucent menu bar option. Whether something gets changed or not probably depends on a number of things: whether it is easy to fix, whether enough people are unhappy, why the the whatever-it-is is the way it is rather than another way. Since we can't know what prompted the state, nor probably how easy it is fix, we can only send our feedback and urge others to do the same, and hope enough complain to make it worthwhile for Apple to respond.
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Lumia 920 animated GIF's

When emailing or texting from the Lumia 920, will users outside of Nokia be able to fully view animated GIF's?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi Coolatta75,
I think I have found a solution for you. I have just tried this on my Lumia 920 and it works. Goto Photos then Camera Roll then open the Cinemagraph GIF and select ...
then select Save To Skydrive, and it will upload the GIF. If you are using Windows 8 (or if you don't have Windows 8, you can access SkyDrive on the web-based version), and download it and open it in Internet Explorer. It will work and play. Please remember that the recipient will always view it as a static MMS unless they have an app on their phone that can play animated GIF's, same applies to recipients who view it on their computer. I suggest sending it to their email and they can open it on their computer.
Let us know how you get on.

Animated gif picture support for iphone 4s or iphoto app

i love it to use animated gif pictures in the imessage chat, but it is still not possible to view these pictures in the camera roll or in iphoto.
would bw great if apple would make it work to play gif pictures in original size.
ether in iphoto or in the iphone camera roll
editing gif in iphoto would be freakin awesome

It's not likely that Apple will add gif animation support into iPhoto, not even the desktop application supports it.
As far as viewing animated gifs saved in your camera roll, there has been a work around to select the gif and share it using the "Email Photo" option. The gif will play while in the email compose box and when you're done viewing it you can simply press cancel to quit the compose email mode.
Search the app store there are lots of apps that allow you create animated gifs and you may even find some that will let you view them more easily.

Viewing Animate GIFS on iPod Touch?

Is it possible to view animated GIFs on a 2nd Gen iPod Touch? Only the first frame shows if you load one as a picture (as I suspected but had to try.)

It's because the webcam viewer uses a Java Applet to display. The iPod touch does not support Java.
If its your own webcam, you may be able to find an alternative webcam displayer based on Javascript or even a simple HTML page refresh, which would work fine on the iPod touch.
In fact, if you enter http://www.falmouthphotos.com/towercam2.jpg into the iPod touch browser you can view the static webcam image directly.

Why are animated gifs not displaying animations in the preview?

Why are animated gifs not displaying animations in the preview?
My coworkers and I are not seeing a animation in the preview pane in Adobe Bridge CS6 even when clicking the play button in the preview window. However, we do see a graphic of the first frame and one person sees 1 frame when clicking play and one other frame and then the animation stops, however, that is not the complete animation.
I'm using Windows 7 32 bit
My coworkers are using a mac.
One coworker has apple OS Mountain Lion with a Intel Quad-Core Xeon – 64 bit system.
Is this fixable or in the works as a patch? Otherwise we have to open these docs in a browser in order to view them properly.

I've just come to the realization that some animated gifs do play fine and others do not. A coworker of mine suggests that if it's an animation made via Adobe Photoshop, it'll work in bridge but will not if it's made using something else.

Does Preview Run Animated GIFs?

Greetings!
I've 10.4.11 and though Preview's Help section says it views(runs) animated gifs I've found no way to do so ever since Panther. What's the trick -- if any?
Thanks!
JimWG

Hi Jim,
It doesn't animate in my 10.4.11 Preview, but drop it on or open it with any Browser, like Safari, or get GraphicConverter for even more options...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/263

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