Here are screen shots of my setup.
The first one is the Download screen, make sure you have the “Download” button switched ON.
The second is the animation screen, follow the instructions for each red box and make sure you have the same tick boxes ticked as I do.
Another FAQ is born? 
Not bad as I only put my own together about a week ago. 
I’d do the screen shots again though for an FAQ.
Hi Budgie,
Thanks for the help it is working now i had to use jpg instead of gif on my local file
Is there a way to not have the flashing cloud Thanks Beau
example here http://74.135.47.164:8080/
Looking good there Beau.
I don’t know why we are getting the flashing cloud, I’ve got it as well and it’s as if there is one frame missing in the animation but I can’t find the fault in my setup. It always seems to be the second from last imae that’s missing.
Brian, any ideas?
Link to Beau’s file: http://74.135.47.164:8080/images/animatedhttpfile.gif
try setting the number of frames to use to one less
I’ll give it a go, although I was running 10 images and now only running 8, could it the even numbers causing the problem?
Hi Brian,
I was using 6 i wet to 5 an it is still showing cloud
Beau
i am not sure why its doing that
(as I do not have that particular problem myself)
I may have a go at deleting all the images and let it start from scratch again to see what happens.
Something else for days off.
Hi Brian,
I do not known if this will help or not but it is not it not in any image In the download folder but it shows up in animatedhttpfile.gif it looks like the image you see on the bottom of the image download page Beau
It’s a standard image that WD will use to fill in for any missing images in the animation (I assume) as I saw these when I first set up my animation.
I think I start by removing one frame at a time and see if that clears it, then, if it clears, I’ll start adding the frames back in again and see what happens.
yes, its a placeholder image
I had a play with this today and did the following:
I reduced the number of frames, one at a time and closed the animate window after each reduction, until I got to the minimum of two frames. The icon was still there throughout.
I then reversed the process back to 8 frames with the same result.
I then deleted all the images in the download folder, I also deleted the other files in there that had the same name as the image file but I can’t remember their extension and I don’t know what they are.
I ran through the setup again and let it get on with it and waited until I was in work tonight before checking on the animation, the icon is still there. #-o
I can live with it as it doesn’t really interupt the sequence but it may annoy others.
On a similar subject Brian, I tried to set up a second animation and it all seemed to work OK but for some reason the animatedhttpfile.gif had the same image as animatedhttpfile2.gif and the only way to get the original image back was to delete animation2.
This is just “nice to have” so don’t think it anything desperate, I know you’re busy enough without stuff like this.
I know what you mean…I have had the same problem. To get mine working correctly I setup both, first number 1 and then number 2, and it seems to work for me most of the time. Give that a try and see if it helps.
Hi guys,
If i would upload to my website only the file sat.gif without any animation…how to do this?
Thanks,
As it happens, I’ve just made a new FAQ about setting up to downlaod an image.
You’ll find it here: Downloading & Animating Images
Follow the instructions in the first section, “DOWNLOAD”, and make sure you have the button in the bottom right hand corner set to “Uploads On”, as it is in the FAQ.
Then WD will download the image for you, change the name, and upload it again.
If you wanted too, you could just link direct from your page to the satellite image by using code like this where you want the image on your page:
<p><a href="http://www.austrocontrol.at/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.austrocontrol.at/met_data/satellite/sat.gif" alt="Satellite Image" border="0"></a></p>
or just put a image url to the sat image into your web page to show it form the source?
but then that puts the bandwidth onto that site and not your site
so they might not like that