Movie to Animated GIF

[Serenity]

I have seen many people take clips from movies and turn them into animated GIFs. How is this done?

[Xasthur]

Programs like Adobe Imageready.

You can capture a clip and select how many frames you want to capture (smooth vs file size).

Then you can edit each frame as you please.

Then simply save as a .gif and you're away.

[Serenity]

Damn I cannot afford adobe products. Oh well, thanks!

[AWwrgwy]

Damn I cannot afford adobe products. Oh well, thanks!

What did you use to make your avitar?


wrongway

[Serenity]

What did you use to make your avitar?


wrongway

GIMP. But they started as individual pictures, not a movie.

[The Fugitive]

GIMP. But they started as individual pictures, not a movie.

so take a bunch of individual screen shots of the movie and turn them into an animated gif.

[AWwrgwy]

so take a bunch of individual screen shots of the movie and turn them into an animated gif.

What he said.  I use VLC player. Play/Pause/Screenshot paste into Paintshop Pro, rinse, repeat.  Over and over.  Gotta be quick on the Play/Pause.    

Cut and paste the screenshot to get what I want.  Resize the cut and paste.  I use Animation Shop for the gif because it pretty much does everything else for you.

I originally had 114 shots for my sig gif and ended up using 40 in the end product.

Really the hardest part is taking the screenshots.


wrongway

[Serenity]

What he said.  I use VLC player. Play/Pause/Screenshot paste into Paintshop Pro, rinse, repeat.  Over and over.  Gotta be quick on the Play/Pause.    

Cut and paste the screenshot to get what I want.  Resize the cut and paste.  I use Animation Shop for the gif because it pretty much does everything else for you.

I originally had 114 shots for my sig gif and ended up using 40 in the end product.

Really the hardest part is taking the screenshots.


wrongway

lol. That's exactly the effort I was hoping to avoid! Oh well, one of these days I'll get to doing it. Thank you!

[Xasthur]

There has to be a free alternative to Imageready.

Surely...

[moot]

Send it to me, I'll do it.