ah, yes, very true... it's not the first frame but the frame visible at the moment the chatlog is saved on disk which gets saved as a (one frame) PNG.
But indeed:
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Originally posted by gif83
There is also no way of determining how many frames exist within the original GIF nor what order the frames belong. So although you may have many frames captured as PNGs. Pasting them back together in the right order may be an arduous task.
Not to mention that transparency is completely lost, as well as the original frame and palette compression which is often used in (good made) animated GIFs.
Although frame and palette compression can be redone by using decent GIF animators (like the supurb Gif Construction Set Pro). But reconstructing the original transparency from those individual PNGs is another matter. For many this is not possible anymore as that information is lost.
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