This is Feezal, Dr. Pholx’s wife (one of them) when she is hitting on Charles “Trip” Tucker III.
Do it for diplomacy, Trip.
It would be racist not to. Respect her culture!
Can’t get pregnant twice from hooking up with an alien.
that sounds like a dare to me!
On a separate note … that is an amazing GIF … how did you do it?
I’m only asking because its so freakin hard to format, upload and make a GIF available on Lemmy … and yes I know GIF is an outdated format but WEBM and MP4 and every modern format is not universally being made available anywhere or easy to use. GIF is an old standard and as old and inefficient as it is, when it works, it works beautifully.
Great work … I’m amazed.
It’s a gifv. It looks smooth like a video because it is one lol
It’s a weird science and digital manipulation … the video is being hosted by imgur and the video file has a GIF filename … but the site plays all sorts of games with how files are presented, delivered and hosted. You can upload a whole WEBM or MP4 to the site and Imgur will convert it to GIF or GIFV format but apparently, all they do is change the filename extension and instead of calling your original video file … ‘myvideo.webm’ … they’ll just change it to … ‘myvideo.gif’ … without converting anything, all they did was change the filename extension. It will always look fine on the Imgur website, it’s when it’s linked elsewhere that it becomes a problem.
The problem is that when it gets linked to a service like Lemmy … Lemmy identifies the video as a WEBM regardless of what Imgur called it.
So the solution I’ve noticed is that you have to explicitly upload an already premade GIF to Imgur … which is a lot of skilled work to create a good looking GIF that has a small enough file size. Imgur then actually converts this file because it tends to degrade an uploaded GIF file which is where the science and skill comes in again. And if all works out -> you create a good GIF ->Imgur doesn’t degrade it too much -> the GIF will work on Lemmy and look great
The main reason why I keep going back to GIF is that it seems to be the only format that looks great, works as it should, presents nicely and is easy to view and watch on PC, Apps and on mobile. Every other video format is all over the place.
It’s a huge headache because GIF is an old outdated format and no one everywhere have settled on common modern video format which should make it easier for us all.
Haven’t dipped my toes into making gifs or what-have-you, but each time I’ve tried to use one as a post, any type/source is a gamble.
The original actual video file regardless of where it is hosted has to be explicitly a GIF … if you upload a WEBM and expect it to be converted to GIF, there isn’t many sites that actually do so … most of them just do the same as Imgur and just tack on a GIF file name while it is still just a WEBM in the background.
Only way around it is to first create a GIF yourself, which is a huge pain because it is like conjuring a sprite in the ancient woodlands of an Irish forest … and then most of the time you end up with an ugly troll or demon in the form of a shitty little degraded GIF file the size of a thumbtack … it’s takes a lot of time and patience to create a quality GIF that is viewable enough with a small enough file size. It’s like trying to draw a detailed painting on a letter sized sheet of paper using a mop as a paint brush.
But once you do actually create a good GIF, you can upload it to places like Imgur, Tenor … or getyarn.io (a site I never knew about until your posted your GIF here - thanks for that) … and chances are that your GIF will work as expected.
Thanks! I store all of my Star Trek shows on a media server and then use Plex to play them. When I find something I want to make into a gif I use ScreenToGif to capture the screen. It allows you to edit frames, add text, combine videos, etc. It’s not tough to do.
Holy carp. I stand totally corrected, I was looking at it on my phone and figured it had to be an mp4 you uploaded to Imgur. I’m looking at this sucker up close now on my laptop, and of course as you know, it’s an 8 bit Compuserve GIF. Video codecs don’t use LZW compression lol. Yeah, it’s a real nice-lookin GIF. Nice work!
When I find something I want to make into a gif I use ScreenToGif to capture the screen. It allows you to edit frames, add text, combine videos, etc. It’s not tough to do.
Thanks for posting this, ScreenToGif looks pretty awesome. It’s free and open source, which is a nice bonus. Now, if I could just find something like this for Linux…
Maybe you could help me? When I use ScreenToGif (on windows if that matters) they come out huge and with a play button and progress bar, like this. Do you know what I’m doing wrong or how to fix it?
It’s hard to say. When I record them I generally record at about 1200x700 with 144 DPI. Then when I save I save as Gif using the Neural Network setting. I leave most of the settings as default but sometimes I remove duplicate frames to help reduce the size.
EDIT: What resolution is your source video file? I know my Voyager episodes are 480p which is not ideal That will have a huge impact on the quality of the gifs. You also want to upload to a place like Imgur that allows larger gif sizes.
Hmm. I don’t see where to set the DPI. I also used the Neural Network setting and the defaults. I tried uploading to Imgur instead of to my computer and straight to Lemmy, no change. I don’t have a way to host videos, and the only platform that doesn’t black out video recordings is youtube, so that’s where I’ve been sourcing, it’s 240p. I wonder if it’s that I’m on Lemmy.world- I see you’re on Lemm.ee, I don’t know if that would make a difference.
Oh, well, thanks for the tips, I’ll keep trying!
In my experience, you can’t upload a WEBM to Lemmy, but uploading a GIF converts it to a WEBM…
I forgot that we actually got to see a female Denobulan.
I think I need to rewatch Faith Trek again.
