Ok i have noticed way to many poeple refering to animated images on this site as animated video clips.. when infact they are totally wrong.
The clips most people call video clips on here, or that they post within their folders of pics are actually refered to as.
Animated Gif's.
A gif is a small image made specifically for the internet, and used in cases where many images are presented on one page. JPG images can also be used, but they are usually larger in size and have many more colors then a GIF. a Gif is one form of many image file types, one of the most common.
However the images people call videos are not videos. they are animated gifs, and the tag on the image if you happen to download it will end in .gif.
The way a animated gif works is simple. you create a slideshow of sorts. one image at a time. You can capture images from a original video sorce to do this, which is much easier in the long run cause you can take the images you need to make the image appear as if it is a video. gifs can have many frames to them, and some do, but most remain with around 100 frames of less.
If you do the gif right, you can make it appear as a video would appear, however if you look at the amount of time to play it its normally under 5 secs. and the human eye only sees around 19 frames a second of any video you watch. many videos are done at 26.67 and up to about 32 frames a second. which just enhances the quality since your eye does not see all the frames.
So for those claiming they have videos in their folders here on fubar, unless its in their stash and stored on youtube or some other video site. their video is actually an...
ANIMATED GIF nothing more. Just a animated Image...
