I believe first you need to convert it into a GIF animation.
Not entirely sure about that though.GAP may have something that can do it.

Uhm, that file is gonna be Massive... Just saying...

Animated sigs are not really that appealing to me either, maybe as an Avatar, if you re-size it

how do i converted to gif?

If it was a AVI video Microsoft GIF animator could do it, but being a FLV video you would need a convertor that could handle FLV's.
I have a commercial product that will do this called Convexsoft video converter. I can convert it for you if you would like.

Hah - i just discovered a way to open AVI files in Gimp
First you need GAP - http://www.box.net/shared/e9i2rgyn9t

And this Plug-in - http://schumaml.gmxhome.de/downloads/gimp/uc-avi.zip

Install directions -

-First close GIMP.
-You'll need to download these then install GIMP GAP.
-Then you'll need to extract UC-AVI and then place the
application file (not the folder) into:
C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins

Once you have installed GIMP GAP and moved the UC-AVI application
plug-in to the plug-in folders you'll need to restart GIMP.
You should now be able to open avi. files.

However the avi. files need to be uncompressed so you'll need to
decompress the AVI file -
Virtual Dub can do this and it's free.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtual ... p/download
Also remember that GIMP cuts the avi file down to each frame so if you
got more than about 10 seconds you've got a lot of frames to edit.

Decompressed AVI's are HUGE! - Be prepared to give the AVI file lot's of time to load in Gimp - just a heads up.

Anyways after loading the AVI as frames you can now edit some frames or remove unwanted ones and save as an GIF format.

There should be somewhere near 600-1000 frames...
Told you it was huge...

This is assuming 17-29 frames per second... most videos as movie theaters are at 20ish, and that would be 700 frames for a 35 second clip, so if this is anywhere near decent quality, there will be about 600+ frames... good luck

There are 417 frames to this particular movie decompressed.
I attached a HTML tutorial on adding video to sigs here "by FencePost"

Thanks FencePost!

Well that is a lot and not near as high as I was expecting o.O

Good luck editing that many frames and then finding a site to upload it on

The thing is you can open them all in Gimp and discard what you do not need .. duplicate frames ect.
Which would mean 8 out of every 10 frames could probably be discarded.
The file itself weighs in around 97 mb after decompression so it is indeed very big.
Ill fire up my Vid to GIF converter and see what i can do.

I was just hoping to be able to show others how to do this freely and easily with Gimp.
Unfortunately either way you will need other programs installed to do this.

What i can not understand is why Microsoft GIF animator can not load the AVI file.
Maybe because the original FLV file has audio, and Microsoft GIF animator can't load audio from AVI's?
I could understand that.Just seems weird though.

I guess my advice would be to follow FencePosts tutorial.

Microsoft doesn't even use GIF Animator anymore but I know GIF cannot handle sound so probably because there was sound

i guess so lol