Question / Help Using animated GIF as image mask makes everything lag when GIF loops

[mistermv]

Hello everyone!

(log file attached)

So I had this silly idea to make people laugh during my waiting/break screens (PREVIEW VIDEO), this is basically a capture of foobar with a color key, some color adjustments and an image mask filter playing a 7.5mb GIF (I've tried with bigger files before, and tried as hard as I could to reduce it, hence why there are several files mentioned in the log).

I'm runing on an i9 with 64GB of RAM & a 1080ti so I don't think hardware would be an issue here. What happens is that everything runs along smoothly until it's time for the GIF file to loop, everything gets very laggy for a second, then things run smoothly until the next loop, and so on...

I wonder if that is something that could be fixed? Or maybe there's a workaround I don't know of! I don't think you can use a video mask, and that could make things worse..

Anyway, hope you'll have some clues and thanks for your time!

- mistermv

 

[R1CH]

GIF files should be cached so looping doesn't pose an issue. I do see several GIF decoding errors on your log, so perhaps the GIF itself has a problem with some of the frames at the end. In general, large GIF files are not recommended as they require significant amounts of memory to store the decoded frame data.

 

[mistermv]

Thanks for your reply R1CH! A viewer reported to me that this could be due to the way Adobe Premiere renders GIF files, I will try to convert a video render to GIF with another software/website, I'll post here if this fixes it!

 

[mistermv]

FIXED!

Indeed, I exported to a h264 video and used this website to convert the mp4 to gif, and this runs just fine now :)

Thanks, hope this will help anyone in the future!