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The term "GIF" is used in a very broad sense nowadays. I'm sure the actual image encoding they're using is a proper video format, not the GIF format itself.
by everfree 6y ago
The term "GIF" is used in a very broad sense nowadays. I'm sure the actual image encoding they're using is a proper video format, not the GIF format itself.
- jack_riminton 6y agoYou're correct, I'm using mp4s instead of actual GIFs. Much more compressed. I think most people understand GIF to mean a short, possibly sped up video
- egfx 6y agoWrong. A GIF is an image format. It literally means “graphical interchange format”. A gif displays single image frames in sequence with timings between each frame. When the frames of the gif end, the frames restart from the beginning and so they are often seen to loop. Technically a gif can play indefinitely. It’s just annoying to see people ascribe gif as basically video.
- wetmore 6y agoJust because short videos aren't all technically GIFs, doesn't mean that people don't commonly understand "gif" to mean short video.
- dheera 6y agoI think this is similar to how the public has mistakenly understood "HDR" to mean a software local contrast enhancement effect and dialing in highlights/shadows, whereas true HDR doesn't refer to software and requires either advanced sensor hardware or multiple exposures.
- dheera 6y agoInteresting, ugh, I hate that kind of broad sense usage. It should be called a "short animation" or "short video" not "Graphics Interchange Format". Facebook still uses actual GIFs for the video stickers in chat and they look horribly degraded, like websites out of the early 90s. I was very surprised they added support for GIF in 2015 when that's the time I thought they should be deprecating GIF in favor of newer, better algorithms.