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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 2757868, member: 77639&quot;]Nice post, Ron.&nbsp; I think animation is great, especially for a coin that one is considering buying.&nbsp; However, an option to freeze it and step through frame by frame is critical.&nbsp; It&#039;s very difficult to study detail on an image that changes every second or more quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Motion gifs are typically viewed with software designed for still images.&nbsp; Some very common pic programs, like FastStone, don&#039;t have the capability to freeze or step through a motion gif or if they do, it&#039;s not immediately obvious to users.&nbsp; On the other hand, an animation in mp4, flv, avi, mkv, etc. format is typically viewed in a motion picture program, like VLC, which has a pause button in the lower left corner of the screen.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, it is possible with many pic viewing programs to burst a motion gif back to individual pics, but it&#039;s often not obvious how to do it.&nbsp; For example, in FastStone, you use the image conversion feature with both input and output file(s) being gifs.&nbsp; There is no notice that if the input file is a motion gif, the output will be a series of still frames, but that&#039;s what happens.&nbsp; BTW, FastStone provides an elegant and easy way to create motion gifs (click Create at top of program screen, then Multipage File Builder, add pics, select animated gif as output, click Create ... in the pop-up screen, not at top of program screen!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably the neatest way to do animation if you have just a few pics is to use a movie creation program and have the pics fade or morph into each other in succession.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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