Gifs?

Hi, I just joined this forum. I like making graphic and stuff so I thought might as well join. I will be posting my inroduction thread later.

On to my question, I make graphics but now I'm trying do some GIFs, for example, you take a movie like Resident Evil:Apocalypse and take a favorite part and turn it into a gif.

So here we go, I have the movie Resident Evil 2 saved on my computer, xvid, dvd quality. It looks really good.

Then I use WMM (windows media maker) to edit out the clips I want from the movie and save it (for the GIF). I imported the .avi file like always into wmm.

Here is my problem, once I save it and I upload it on imageready to delete the frames, optimize it and make a quick GIF etc... or when I view that particular part on windows media player, the QUALITY SUCKS, like it is really LOW QUALITY. It has like this dots all over the GIF, I don't know what you call them but the GIF is not crispy clean as I wanted it to be. Its not the QUALITY like the dvd picture.

I know that this is more likely to be considered as a stupid question and I admit to that but I would really like to know how to do it. I need to know it badly. Any simple answer would be appreciated or if there really isn't any solution to this, well, I can just forget this topic and the question and just go my own ways.

You guys get what my problem is?

For example this:



You see how unclear that is?

How do you make a clear GIF like this?



I tried getting this quality and failed....

If somone could help I will really appreciate it. Please!

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The graphical limitations of the GIF format including colour depth means that you will never get anything close to dvd quality in a GIF animation.

GIF animations only work for low-res cartoon quality images.

You probably need to look at creating a Flash sequence.