Re: Animated GIFs in documentation

Subject: Re: Animated GIFs in documentation
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: Christine Frank <christinebfrank -at- gmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 11:06:02 -0700

Animated GIF is a standard format that you can save to from many video
and animation tools:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Animated_GIF

I would not use it to distribute video. I've seen too many problems
where they either did not play at all or the frame rate was way too
fast.

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Christine Frank
<christinebfrank -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Oh, so good to know, thank you! I have Camtasia on order at the office but
> thought there might be a shortcut, and I wanted to be able to resent an
> alternative. When everyone was calling them GIFs, I thought there might be
> something really simple that I was missing. And also since Ccmatasia has
> its own extension, .cmt or something.
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