Movie Maker GIF Problem.

candyfwarhol · Nov 18, 2011

I'm trying to import animated gif images into windows movie maker and all I'm getting is blocked lines of colour with all of them. They play for the allotted time, the video's just messed. I'm using Windows XP service pack 3...not too sure what version of windows movie maker I have, 2.something I would assume. I've tried importing them both as pictures and videos. Any help?

pip22 · Nov 18, 2011

Animated gifs don't play in WMM because they are not videos. An animated gif is just a sequence of still gif images, with each image slightly different than the previous one. Like a simple "flip book" which gives the impression of movement when you flick through it.

One workaround is to convert them to a video format which WMM can handle. You'll need to get hold of a suitable converter to do that.

ReviverSoft · Nov 18, 2011

An animated gif is just a sequence of still gif images, with each image slightly different than the previous one

Adding to this, the only possibility is to extract the sequence of images from the Animated GIF and then import them into Movie Maker.

Movie Maker GIF Problem.

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