# Creating a .gif from a .swf animation

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**Created:** [December 4, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-gif-from-a-swf-animation/208976 "2006-12-04T22:16:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 4, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-gif-from-a-swf-animation/208976/1 "2006-12-04T22:16:45Z")

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I’ve been trying to export a .gif from Flash. The .swf has several video files playing inside the timeline (not flvs) … and I just want to make a .gif out of that.

It’s exporting, but the .gif runs REALLY slow. So I tried exporting a jpg sequence and then importing that sequence into the timeline, then exporting THAT as a .gif, and it’s still really slow.

The .swf file plays at 29fps (the same as the video clips) … and I’d like to make the .gif as close to that as possible.

I even tried ImageReady, but it’s still way too slow.

Any ideas?