Upload and convert video to GIF. With this online video converter you can upload your mp4, avi, WebM, flv, wmv and many other popular types of video and rich media files to turn them into high quality animated GIFs. Source video file can be uploaded from your computer or smartphone or fetched from another server by URL. Easy Video to GIF Pro 2.4.0. Video to GIF Pro is the best video to GIF creator, It can extract clips even frame from your video files for convert to GIFs. It supports all popular video formats, such as avi, mp4, wmv, rmvb. Key features: Convert clips into small GIF files; Rotate, flip, crop, resize the video; Support multiple captions. Convert video file to GIF animation. Support for popular video formats such as AVI, MP4, MPG, WMV, MKV, MOV, and DVD. Special efficacy available during video to GIF. Maintain quality and frame rate as same as original video file. Overall, WonderFox Video to GIF Converter is a useful tool to make animated GIFs in a short time. Animated GIF Maker by Imgflip. Top in the list is an amazing service provided by one of the most famous image hosting website, Imgflip. One feature which differentiates this tool from remaining services is that you can also convert the YouTube videos to the GIF images. PNG to GIF PNG (Portable Network Graphics) TIFF to GIF TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) MP4 to GIF MP4 (MPEG-4 Video) MOV to GIF MOV (QuickTime Movie) AVI to GIF AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) CR2 to GIF CR2 (Canon RAW Version 2) NEF to GIF NEF (Nikon Electronic Format) DNG to GIF DNG (Digital Negative) PSD to GIF PSD (Photoshop Document) RAW to.
Finding the perfect tool for video conversions can be a laborious task. There are numerous online and desktop applications available for converting videos to GIF. However, it is difficult to pick the best software that fulfills your requirements. For this purpose, we’ve compiled a list of the top 10 software applications that you can use for converting your videos to GIF images:
1. dr.fone
A powerful music and video tool that is quite popular with most Mac users. The application enables you to transfer music, create playlists, organize artwork, ratings, and play counts. The interface of the application is beautifully laid out with all options easy to find and use. dr.fone supports a wide variety of music and video formats that include AVI, WMV, VOB, ASF, MP4, GIF, among many others. Converting between these formats is an easy and simple process. A few clicks is all that it takes to convert any video format to GIF. The software also provides the users with several customizations options that can be used to modify the GIF generated. The powerful tools combined with the intuitive interface makes dr.fone the best application for converting videos to GIF images.
Platforms: Windows and Mac OS X
Pros:
- Very easy to use. It can convert both photos and videos to GIF images.
- Quick and reliable even with large videos.
- Supports an entire library of video formats.
Steps to convert videos to GIF via dr.fone
Step 1: Download and install dr.fone on your Mac or Windows PC. Then launch it. From the primary window, you can notice that there is a 'Toolbox' tab in the top menus. Click it and find 'GIF Maker' option, like the screenshot below shows. Click it.
Step 2: In the next window, there are 'Photo to GIF' and 'Video to GIF' options for you to choose from. As you want to convert photos to GIF, you can select the 'Photo to GIF' one. Click 'Add' to browse the photos that you want to convert to GIF. Click 'Open'.
Step 3: Now you are free to set the output size, frame rate and saving location. After that, click 'Create GIF'. Voodoopad 5 3 0. Go you just go to your computer and preview your GIF images!
2. ANY GIF ANIMATOR
Any GIF animator is a free tool that lets you convert your video files into animated GIFs. It supports many formats such as MPG, AVI, MOV, WMV, 3GP, MP4, MKV and many others. This software lets the users decide the start and end position of the video, so that only the selected part is converted into GIF. It also allows the user to adjust contrast, brightness and saturation of the output GIF. You can add filters and give a new look to your GIF according to your choice. Other interesting features of this software include clipping and cropping, and using text overlay.
Pros:
• Easy and simple to use.
• Supports a large number of video formats.
• The customization options available for the GIF are fun and unique.
Cons:
• Adware: The application download comes with a lot of unnecessary garbage.
• File selection can be a bit of a mess (especially if there are a large number of files).
3. KICKMYGRAPHICS
KickMyGraphics is number three on the list. It is again a free software that supports many video formats to be changed into GIFs. They include ASF, MPG, WMV, MP4, AVI etc. With this software, you can change the screen size of the video by the use of sliders. Before saving your GIF file, you can set the transparency as well. You can make the animated GIF from selected frames only.
• No advertisements.
• The interface is easy to understand.
• A large number of editing options available.
• Allows images and videos to be imported.
• Good frame dropping feature.
Cons:
• You can only make GIFs from the available frames.
• Only 600 frames at maximum are available.
4. CUTE VIDEO TO GIF CONVERTER
This is yet another software that converts videos into GIF for free. Videos in many formats such as MPG, MP4, VOB, 3GP, AVI, WMV, and FLV etc. are supported by the software. When you load a video in any of these formats, a preview opens up automatically. It allows you to play the video right then after setting start and end points for it. This can be done by the use of slide and the trim buttons. Other than this, you can enable color map optimizations, as well.
• Supports many video formats.
• User-friendly interface.
Cons:
• No previews available in the application for the output GIF.
5. MICROSOFT GIF ANIMATOR
Microsoft GIF Animator is a free software by Microsoft that converts AVI video files into GIFs. You can upload the AVI format video in the software and delete the unnecessary frames to make an animated GIF and save it. This program was last updated in 2001, but it still works fine with the modern systems. The program lets you adjust dimensions and color palette and shows a preview of the GIF output too. Looping options are available and transparency of the output can be set as well. It is very limited in terms of supported video formats though. It can only load a handful of video formats that include AVI and WMP. You can preview each frame of the resulting gif using Microsoft GIF Animator. The software also allows you to alter the color palette and set the dimensions for the GIF.
• Easy to use and configure.
• No installation required.
• Freeware.
Cons:
• Limited support for video formats.
• Powerful features such as style editing are not available.
6. GIMP
GIMP is an admirable software that has become notably popular over the last decade or so. The reason for this is that GIMP is freeware software that provides all the necessary features and facilities for photo/video editing. GIMP is short for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The software enables the user to load videos and images of any format and convert them into animated GIF images. Each GIF image can then be customized through the variety of options that are available with GIMP.
• Freeware software that is both powerful and well-updated.
• Community developed software which allows you to give direct input.
• Runs smoothly on almost every platform.
• Highly customizable through plugins.
Cons:
• No 16-bit color channel support.
• New features are seldom added because the support is community developed.
7. GIFBREWERY
When it comes to software development and availability, Windows always comes first before any other platform. GIFBrewery however does not conform to that pattern. GIFBrewery is an intuitive GIF creator that is available only for Mac OS X. The interface is minimalistic with beautifully set buttons and menus. Every option is easy to find using the interface provided and the application is generally very easy to navigate through. It handles almost every video format that is supported by QuickTime. Apart from conversion, it also facilitates the user with several customization options that include frame rate adjustment, style effects, playback direction, caption addition.
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• Supports all QuickTime video formats.
• Beautiful interface that makes the application simple and easy to use.
• The customization options available allow the user to edit the GIF in every way they like.
Cons:
• Mac OS X exclusive software – no support for Windows.
• Despite having only GIF features, the application is still priced at $5.
8. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
Almost all of us are familiar with Adobe’s premier image editing software i.e. Adobe Photoshop. If you have it installed, it is one of the best options available for converting videos to GIFs. The software facilitates the user with powerful and astonishing image editing features, all of which can be applied to GIFs as well. However, what needs to be noted is that converting and editing GIFs is only a small portion of Photoshop’s capabilities.
• Reliable and powerful software.
• The customization options available are, by far, the best available in the market.
Cons:
• The software package costs around $20.
• It is not specifically a GIF conversion tool which makes the options for GIF editing harder to find and use.
• Difficult to understand without tutorials/guidance.
9. EASY GIF ANIMATOR
A simple and easy to use software for generating and editing GIF images. The application also has a rich number of features available for adding stunning visuals to the GIF image. The software supports a large number of file formats and converts them using high compression which ensures best quality. With the help of Easy GIF Animator, you can customize the GIF image in numerous ways that include caption addition, loop count, frame duration, and styling filters.
• Light application that takes up minimal memory space.
• Fast conversions.
• Easy to use with a simple and clean interface.
Cons:
• Only trial version available for free – not a freeware software.
10. MOVIE TO GIF
An easy to use minimal converter with a simple interface. The steps for conversion between videos and GIF images are simple and easy to understand. The customization options such as frames per second and resolution of the GIF are also available with the software. By default, this converter will maintain the resolution and play-speed of the video.
• Friendly interface that is very easy to use.
• Freeware software
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• No nonsense software that does not contain any useless features.
Cons:
• Lacks customization options for the GIF generated.
• Relatively low support for video formats.
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Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Jakub Steiner and may not be used without permission of the author.
Intention¶
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use GIMP’s layers in a different manner. Unlike it’s default composite function, using GIMP as an animation package requires you to think of every layer as of an animation frame. We’ll discuss the two different frame disposal methods later on. For now let us think about every layer as of a separate frame.
Step 1¶
We’ll create a very simple web banner. Let’s start with a new image 468x60 px. Use white as the background color. Create new transparent layer. Select the whole image with Ctrl+A and fill it with black (Ctrl+,). Shrink the selection by 1 px (
Selection → shrink
) and delete the selection with Ctrl+K. We created a 1 px frame around out banner.Now it’s time to put our logo or the main theme picture into the banner. I have prepared a masked-out flower you see on the picture on the left. I just pasted the flower below the border frame, used alpha to selection, created an empty layer below it and filled the selection with black using Ctrl+,. After that I blurred the shadow using Gaussian blur RLE and offset it by 2px to bottom right. I couldn’t resist adding the interlace effect using
Filters → Render → Grid
and a layer mask. In that layer mask i applied a b/w gradient, so that the left of the flower is not interlaced.This part of the tutorial is not the key element, so feel free to experiment. Once you’re ready flatten the image using the
Image → Flatten Image
.Step 2¶
Now we’re ready for the actual animation work. We will be creating a banner consisting of, say three lines of text being animated. Each frame will consist of the flower image and accompanied by some text. I don’t want to make this boring, so lets make it three frames. The first step will naturally be to copy our flattened image two times using the duplicate layer button in the layers window.
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Then we’ll use the standard text tool to put a small text note on every frame. After typing the text onto the frame, GIMP will create a floating selection, that you need to position right using the move tool and anchor using Ctrl+H. The positioning might be crucial for the final animation, so you can use the following trick to make the positioning a piece of cake. Before using the text tool, set the layer (frame) transparency to a lower value, so you could see the layer below it. That way you can position the newly created text acording to the text below (on the previous frame).
Step 3¶
In every GIF animation you are allowed to specify the delay between frames. That way you can create a 12 second animation using only a few frames, because the delay does not have to be constant. In GIMP you specify the delay as a layer comment. Just double-click the layer comment in the layers’ window and a delay in ms enclosed in brackets ().
To check if the timing is good, you can preview the animation using the
Filters → Animation → Animation Playback
. You can even drag the preview around your desktop.Step 4¶
In the last step, we’ll use a very handy function for applying a filter to multiple layers. This function is provided by GAP, the GIMP Animation Package. Please go to the “Using GAP” tutorial to learn more about the tool.
Before we can apply this effect, we need to create a new image out of the third frame. This is as simple as dragging the layer preview from the layers window to the toolbar. Now duplicate the image four times. With a rectangular select tool, draw a selction around the text. Now we’re ready to apply a gaussian blur filter on every layer using varying parameters. Use the
Filters → Filter All Layers
function and select plug-in-gauss-rle2 from the list and press the apply varying button. The blur dialog pops up. Now we need to specify parameters for the lowest layer in the stack, ie. our first frame.We want to blur the text away in time, so for the first frame, let’s specify a lower value. We’ll blur in horizontal direction only, so let’s make it v:0 h:2. After you click OK another dialog shows up. Here, choose continue and specify parameters for the last frame. We’ll go for 20 px horizontal blur. You can backup the progress, but for now we will make the filter apply on all layers inbetween by clicking on continue in the next dialog. All we need to do now is to drag the layers back to the original image.
Step 5¶
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Now we only need to save our animation as GIF. Before we do that, let’s optimize the animation using the
Filters → Animation → Animation Optimize
function. This will create a new image using a different mode than what we have now. You can use two different modes for every frame of your animation. You can either use the replace mode (default), which will replace the old frame with the new one. It’s like taking the frame out before adding a new one. The other is the combine method, in which the new frame is added to the previous frame. That way only changes need to be updated. That’s what animation optimize basically does. The file size gets tremendously smaller. Now we need to index the image using Image→ Mode → Indexed function (Alt+I).Try to use as little colors as possible and avoid dithering. Both number of colors and dithering tend to enlarge the filesize dramaticaly. I used no color dithering and generated 32 color pallette. The file size of the banner is about 7kB. If you now save the image as GIF, GIMP will ask whether it should save the image as an animation, which is exactly what we need. In the save as GIF dialog, you can specify the default delay (in our example it will be used for the blured frames) and disposal method. You can use your WWW browser to check the animation, or you can use the animation playback function in the animation section of the image menu.