
You can also add transparency to the GIFs at this stage. It’s usually best to convert all of the individual frames back to GIF format, using your favorite graphics editor or IrfanView (which has a Batch Conversion capability to speed things up). There’s a free utility called GIFSplitter that will do that for you, splitting the image into all its frames as BMP files if you check the “Auto fill” box: Once you have a GIF animation, one you’ve either downloaded or created with a free GIF animation program like Beneton Movie GIF, you need to break the GIF animation down into its individual frames. However, by “disassembling” the animated GIF into the individual frames, and then assigning each of those frames a time stamp in a KML file, you can re-create the animation effect using Google Earth’s time animation feature. Google Earth supports GIF files as image overlays, with or without transparency, but it doesn’t directly support animated GIFs.
