animations? Not like, animated gifs where the picture just changes, but like animations from, say, a music video or something. Any help would be appreciated!

You're probably looking for a program or something that does it for you, but I can't think of any. You could do it without a special program, but it might take some effort. Just remember that an animation of a music video works the same way as an animation of anything else: it's still a series of static images replayed at a certain speed. So you could open your video file, pause it and take a screenshot (if you're using the Print Screen button, you'd probably have to turn off hardware acceleration first: for XP, right-click the desktop, then go to Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshoot), then paste it into your graphics program. That's your first frame. Lather rinse repeat until you get the desired result.

could you maybe provide an example of something that you are specifically trying to make?

I don;t really know what you mean, but I might have figured it out. If you're talking about adding a music video of yours or soemthing like that onto your website, then you'd have to record it, then upload it, and add it to your site that way.

If you mean that you want to put an existing music video on your site, upload the video to your website, and then add it that way.

I hope this helps, I don't really quite know what you mean =\

I mean like, a short 5 second clip of something, but in .gif format. And no sound. I'll see if I can find an example...

A good program to use is Jasc Animation Shop -- I believe that 3 is the latest version. I'm also assuming that this (http://img11.photobucket.com/albums/v35/k_blends/aragarw.gif) is the type of thing you're looking for?

??? (http://geocities.com/rakutentekina/misc/screen.jpg) → !!! (http://geocities.com/rakutentekina/misc/mucc.gif)

...?

neither of those links work :lol:

No? Crap. They work for me... I can't think of anywhere else to upload them; they're too big. Except maybe...

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley/5650/one.jpg
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley/5650/two.gif

or

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/xmurderfreak/one.jpg
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/xmurderfreak/two.gif

This displeases me.

Does that mean I just take many screencaps of the point of animation and set it up as an animated gif?

You mean video avs? I make those a lot... What video are you trying to get it from? First you need to be able to get the clip or video that you want to use onto your computer.
I mostly use Adobe ImageReady for it but sometimes Jasc Animation Shop works also. My Animation Shop freezes sometimes though if the video is too long and the file is too large...animation shop opens up .avi files while imageready can't, but it can open .movs.

For instance, sometimes I download movie trailers and they're in .mov form (because its quicktime) and I can just open it in ImageReady. Then from there, it lets you choose which section of the file you want to open and it opens them into lots of separate frames.
Umm one example I have offhand is here: http://www.boomspeed.com/angter/leggy.gif which is one I made for my friend, although its a bigger file than I usually make and it might take awhile to load...the video avs are usually bigger files than other kinds...it also depends on how long the scene is that you want.

Whenever you make the avs, the programs always split them into individual frames so there can be a LOT at a time. I like using ImageReady because you can make a new layer above all the other frames and add borders and text and it'll automatically apply to the layers beneath it...so you can add text and borders to each frame without having to do it one by one, which would take forever. ;)

I hope I kind of helped you.

Ahh, I didn't know you could open video files in those. I used Gimp, for which opening video files seems to be impossible on Windows.

But yes, no matter how you do it, it's just a matter of getting the frames from the video file (obviously opening the file directly is ideal, but you can see doing it by hand works alright, too, if necessary) and saving it as an animated gif.