# Exporting a Movie as a GIF

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/exporting-a-movie-as-a-gif/169027>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 12, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/exporting-a-movie-as-a-gif/169027 "2005-11-12T16:13:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blenderben](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/blenderben/32/74_2.png) [@Blenderben](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Blenderben)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/exporting-a-movie-as-a-gif/169027/1 "2005-11-12T16:13:47Z")

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okay so i got this pretty little picture…

and i motioned tweened a little animating fly, buzzing around happily

now it worsk perfecto when i export as a SWF, everything is great and fine

but I want to publish the file as an Animated GIF, but when i do, my BG picture gets REALLY grainy

it just looks terrible compared to the old picture.

how can i PREVENT this? its almost like Flash doesn’t want to add any more colors to the GIF, ☹