there's prolly another way to do it, but with some movie players u can output jpg images (or maybe gifs) at the rate of x many per second into a directory, then use something like paint shop pro animator to string all the gifs into a single animated gif file..... i have a program that can do that movie to jpg conversion but i can't remember what it is right now (i'm at work) but i'm sure someone else can suggest one
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(oro put me on to gordian knot last week, and that seems pretty amazing and could prolly do it for you)