# Saving as gifs

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/saving-as-gifs/58315>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 21, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/saving-as-gifs/58315 "2004-07-21T15:12:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![snarehax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@snarehax](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/snarehax)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/saving-as-gifs/58315/1 "2004-07-21T15:12:08Z")

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I made an animation with a lighting mask, and I want to save it as a GIF file, but when I open the file, it doesn’t animate. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/saving-as-gifs/58315/2 "2004-07-21T15:28:41Z")

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Im sure Ive come across this before…

Either you haven’t selected animate in the publish settings box, or it might be that exporting to gif doesnt work with mc’s so you have to have all the animation on the main timeline.

Hope this helps 🙂