AVI To Animated .GIF Converter

[Jeremy]

Does anyone know a freeware / open-source program capable of converting an AVI or an AVI converted to a sequence of image files to an animated GIF?

I intend these for use in instant messenger clients as custom emoticons.

[Tripredacus]

I only know of trialware for such purposes. And those are Total Video Converter and any graphics program capable of editing animated gifs like Fireworks, ImageReady, PSP or whatever.

[PC_LOAD_LETTER]

ive done that before using virtualdub. it can export a sequence of bmp/tga files (File/Save Image Sequence) and then ive used paintshop to batch resize/crop the images and turn them into a .gif