Puzzle Cache-animated Gif

[+Grading Papers]

I hope this is the right place to post this. How do I slow down or take apart an annimated GIF? I've had several puzzles where I just have to watch the screen. I'd like to slow it down or take it apart and look at each frame. I'll be really thankful to have some help!--Grading Papers

[+Frettchen_2006]

I hope this is the right place to post this. How do I slow down or take apart an annimated GIF? I've had several puzzles where I just have to watch the screen. I'd like to slow it down or take it apart and look at each frame. I'll be really thankful to have some help!--Grading Papers

 

I'm not sure of free or share ware that can do this but Jasc's Animator that comes with Paint Shop Pro can pull gifs to their own individual frames.

 

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You may be able to use the free trials for Gamani's Gif Movie Gear ( http://www.gamani.com/ ) or

 

Ulead® GIF Animator 5 ( http://www.ulead.com/ga/ ) for what you need it for, however, I'm not sure what their trial policies are.

Edited March 20, 2006 by Sjona

[bogleman]

right click on the "show" while it is playing (options will come up) then select pause - works for macromedia flash programs.

 

I am not sure if this is the same as what you described, just something I tried that worked for me.

[+OienLabs]

Microsoft GIF Animator is freeware and will do the job.

[+Cache Liberation Front]

Microsoft GIF Animator is freeware and will do the job.

 

Try the old-school way of stopping an animated gif: hit ESC. You won't be able to dissect it this way, but just reload it and hit ESC again. Consider it like playing the slots

 

Mr. W.

[+blackjack65]

In the case of the puzzle cache he is looking at,

the relative timing from one frame to another is the key,

so stopping it altogether would not help.

He really needs to slow it down drastically,

or view it in a software, such as PaintShop,

that will reveal the timing of each slide.

[+bottlecap]

I've never seen anything like this for a cache. Can someone provide a link to the cache?

[+Kit Fox]

I used Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 to extract the coordinates from a GIF puzzle called Toga Party.

 

I found this one in his area: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f5-7eccadbb7941

Edited March 21, 2006 by Kit Fox

[+Cache Liberation Front]

I've never seen anything like this for a cache. Can someone provide a link to the cache?

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...e1-3cd84a8c9cb9

[+Grading Papers]

In the case of the puzzle cache he is looking at,

the relative timing from one frame to another is the key,

so stopping it altogether would not help.

He really needs to slow it down drastically,

or view it in a software, such as PaintShop,

that will reveal the timing of each slide.

 

Yes, that's the cache I was looking at.

[+BigWhiteTruck]

The Gimp is a full-featured image editor that rivals photoshop in it's power and feature set. It is also free through donations of time and energy developing it by a community of programmers who just want to see good software available to everyone (or maybe they needed a free graphics program).

1. Install gimp for windows
   
2. Go to the webpage with the image you want to see, right click on it, and select save image as. . .
   
3. Run gimp and hit file->open, and pick the image.
   
4. go to the dialogs menu and select "layers"
   
5. unclick all the eye icons next to each layer, then turn each eye back on, one at a time to view the frames individually
   
6. if you want to slow it down, double-click on the layer name and change the delay to a larger number it is measured in milliseconds, so 1000 is one second, then re-save the image and open it in your browser
   

have fun

[+icefall5]

I used Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 to extract the coordinates from a GIF puzzle called Toga Party.

 

I found this one in his area: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f5-7eccadbb7941

 

I've never seen anything like this for a cache. Can someone provide a link to the cache?

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...e1-3cd84a8c9cb9

Know any that aren't premium member only?

 

EDIT- Grammar

Edited March 22, 2006 by icefall5

[R & B Cache]

I used Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 to extract the coordinates from a GIF puzzle called Toga Party.

 

I found this one in his area: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f5-7eccadbb7941

 

I've never seen anything like this for a cache. Can someone provide a link to the cache?

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...e1-3cd84a8c9cb9

Know any that aren't premium member only?

 

EDIT- Grammar

 

This one I made and not PM

 

Animated Cache