In the Night (1930)

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Okay so I've never really made gifs for reddit, I tried to keep it a balance between hq but optimized and not too big... Let me know if it's not looking well or if you have any advice TT.... Anyways LOVE how this movie looks. Can you imagine it's the director's only film.

[u/PalmerDixon → u/cbxjpg]

Awesome post and well done!

Regarding the quality, this is perfect. Most .gifs struggle with the frame rate, but these ones are fluid which is next to pixelization one of our priorities when it comes to our 'Quality' rule.

Black-and-white probably also helped because .gifs naturally struggle with their color limitation.

Size is often an issue (yours is 270 MB) but it really depends if the user is having a stable Internet connection and a good device.
But yes, if it's too big, loading takes longer and they might give up and skip one's post.

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[u/cbxjpg → u/PalmerDixon]

Thank you, I really appreciate the feedback!!:)🌼

[u/ydkjordan → u/cbxjpg]

I keep mine about that size too, and I use GifTuna on the PC. Aspect ratio and black and white helps here. Those ST GIFs from a few weeks go were close to the floor for quality due to widescreen and time (length).

These look great! And I really like #4, very smooth.

The shortcut Dixon gave for GIF albums is not pulling them up on mobile for me,but an example of a slow one that is high quality would be the Akira one. It was pretty slow at the time, but it just loaded for me quick so I suspect reddit did some kind of update that helped.

On my PC, GIFs load instantly and Mobile is slower (even on WiFi). On pc, the dither is very visible at times, but you can’t see it as much on mobile, so maybe it is doing some kind of upscale on the fly.

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Awesome thank you!! I use Photoshop, and probably if I kept some of them shorter rather than 200+ frames it would've been even easier to load. Live and learn 🤓

[u/ydkjordan → u/cbxjpg]

I think that’s ok - 200 frames at 24-30fps would be in the right range 6.5-8.5 seconds

my general rules are

Nothing less than 640px width, 800 if possible

Nothing less than 20fps, and sometimes nothing less than 24fps if it’s a slow movement. Not mucking with frame rate is ideal though

Try to keep files less 25-35MB a piece. Anything over 35MB tends to load slow. If you can get good quality in less than 25MB that’s great

Shots longer than 10 seconds are usually too big.

It’s a balance if I decide to trim the shot or pick a different shot. Long shots I will save for separate posts. Sometimes it just feels wrong to trim the shot

Experimenting with dithering options can give you more compression to get the sizes down

These are my general rules, I’ve seen others do a pretty consistent 4-5 second shot GIF duration with good success, but those are pretty short shots for my taste, cheers!

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In the Night (1930)

A quarry worker gets married and lives his marital bliss, until an explosion at his workplace, a mine, disfigures him...

Drama
Director: Charles Vanel
Actors: Charles Vanel, Sandra Milovanoff, Christiane Tourneur
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 68% with 12 votes
Runtime: 1:15
TMDB | Where can I watch?

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[u/joeyjoejums]

Great shots for 1930.