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How to make an animated gif from a video, the easy way?

Anyone?
 
#10
#10
Freak said:
No. I'm looking for something that would allow me to take short videos on my computer and convert them to a gif.
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Flash can export as gifs. Not sure if you are familiar with that though.
 
#12
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Freak said:
I'll check those out. Thanks.



It seems like this is how I did it once before. Is the process complicated?
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It's not all that complicated.

  1. Play downloaded video in KMPlayer
  2. Right click the video, Frame: Extract. I'll post a picture of the box that pops up how I have it set up
  3. That will make a picture for every frame of the video
  4. Open Photoshop
  5. File, Scripts, Load Files into Stack
  6. Pick the files you want. They will load, one by one, as separate layers
  7. Window, Timeline
  8. Click "Create Frame Animation" in the Timeline panel that comes up
  9. Click the dropdown menu in the Timeline panel, Make Frames From Layers
  10. That will load them all into the Timeline, but they will be backwards
  11. Click the same dropdown menu and select Reverse Frames
  12. Edit each frame as you'd like. Make sure you change the thing that says "Once" to "Forever" for the repetition
  13. You'll probably want to fiddle around with the time length of each frame to your liking
  14. When you're done, File, Save for Web
  15. In the box that opens, near the top right, you'll want to make Colors as high as you'd like, to maximize the clarity of the gif
  16. If you need to save it within a certain size, but you don't want to make the actual image smaller, the Dropdown "Optimize Menu" at the top right corner has a feature to Optimize to File Size
  17. Done
 

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#13
#13
crusse10 said:
It's not all that complicated.

  1. Play downloaded video in KMPlayer
  2. Right click the video, Frame: Extract. I'll post a picture of the box that pops up how I have it set up
  3. That will make a picture for every frame of the video
  4. Open Photoshop
  5. File, Scripts, Load Files into Stack
  6. Pick the files you want. They will load, one by one, as separate layers
  7. Window, Timeline
  8. Click "Create Frame Animation" in the Timeline panel that comes up
  9. Click the dropdown menu in the Timeline panel, Make Frames From Layers
  10. That will load them all into the Timeline, but they will be backwards
  11. Click the same dropdown menu and select Reverse Frames
  12. Edit each frame as you'd like. Make sure you change the thing that says "Once" to "Forever" for the repetition
  13. You'll probably want to fiddle around with the time length of each frame to your liking
  14. When you're done, File, Save for Web
  15. In the box that opens, near the top right, you'll want to make Colors as high as you'd like, to maximize the clarity of the gif
  16. If you need to save it within a certain size, but you don't want to make the actual image smaller, the Dropdown "Optimize Menu" at the top right corner has a feature to Optimize to File Size
  17. Done
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Wow. Nice.

Is this the kmplayer you're referring to?

KMPlayer
 
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I made all these using that system, but they had to be under 2.0mb using an ESPN The Body photoshoot

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Delete this if it's too much lol
 
#17
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crusse10 said:
I made all these using that system, but they had to be under 2.0mb using an ESPN The Body photoshoot

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Delete this if it's too much lol
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Nice. In more ways than one. Lol.
 
#18
#18
Looks like yours is a solid option for quality gifs if I had a PC.
 
#19
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Freak said:
Looks like yours is a solid option for quality gifs if I had a PC.
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I'm sure there are other video programs out there that extract frame-by-frame. I'd recommend just googling a little to find one that will. Once you have the frame-by-frame stills, it'll work the same way in PS
 
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crusse10 said:
I'm sure there are other video programs out there that extract frame-by-frame. I'd recommend just googling a little to find one that will. Once you have the frame-by-frame stills, it'll work the same way in PS
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Thanks.
 
#21
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Freak said:
Slightly familiar. Explain.
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You would have to import the video to a new flash file. Then publish as a gif.

It's been awhile since I've done it. I can't remember the exact steps.

Seems like you may have found some better options anyway. But did you check the App Store?
 
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