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Usually I use Photoshop but my normal laptop is damaged and currently being repaired. Thankfully I have another smaller laptop which has ImageReady. The interface for .gif making is already integrated in Photoshop for CS2/3 onwards. You can find tutorials all over Tumblr since everybody makes gifs there. Just gonna put some basic instructions here for convenience:
1. Open the video using Media Player Classic (the one that comes with the Community Codec Pack/CCCP); not sure if VLC has the same features.
2. Pause the video and go to 'Play', then 'Filters', then 'ffdshow video decoder'.
3. From there, find the 'Grab' option and click once (but don't tick the box just yet). Settings should be something like:
>Grab every frame
>Grab every __ frame. Fill the blank with a suitable number. Obviously every 1 frame gives the best flow like the gifs I posted, but extended scenes or stuff like anime where some frames are repeated stills, grabbing every 3 frames works)
>Path (make a folder for the screengrabs from the video)
>Image format: JPEG (not sure if this gives the smallest file size or not. Small file sizes are preferable)
>Quality (depends on how many frames you're putting in. The first, 2nd and 4th gifs are made with 100 quality value, while the 3rd one was made with 50 to fit the forum's constraints).
4. After this, just tick the box beside 'Grab'. Navigate to the section of the video you want to capture then press play. The stills should appear in the folder you previously set. In this case, I did screengrabs for the different sequences, sent them to the same folder then separated for smaller gifs, though I can only do this because the sequences are short and I'm only making 4 gifs. You can make separate folders for stills from different sequences.
The steps after this are for Adobe ImageReady CS. Not sure how to do it with Photoshop, so just Google around. Photoshop allows some of those nifty effects, text overlays etc (the stuff on Tumblr basically).
5. Open ImageReady, click File, Import, then Folder to Frames. This basically makes all images in a folder into separate frames in an animation.
6. Select the folder containing the stills, then wait for the import. Check the filesize; obviously, more frames/bigger images means bigger file size. If even after optimisation it's still too big, you may consider recapturing the stills with lower quality or deleting some inbetween frames.
7. Select all/some frames and decide on the delay between each frames; in other words, the framerate. For the gifs I made, 0.04 seconds worked, though it's kind of in a case-by-case basis. I used the default value for the 2nd gifs so it's considerably slower (which is what I wanted since it's a short sequence). So, with this feature you can make part of the gif fast and other parts slow :)
8.When you're done, just 'Save Optimised As' a gif file.
1. Open the video using Media Player Classic (the one that comes with the Community Codec Pack/CCCP); not sure if VLC has the same features.
2. Pause the video and go to 'Play', then 'Filters', then 'ffdshow video decoder'.
3. From there, find the 'Grab' option and click once (but don't tick the box just yet). Settings should be something like:
>Grab every frame
>Grab every __ frame. Fill the blank with a suitable number. Obviously every 1 frame gives the best flow like the gifs I posted, but extended scenes or stuff like anime where some frames are repeated stills, grabbing every 3 frames works)
>Path (make a folder for the screengrabs from the video)
>Image format: JPEG (not sure if this gives the smallest file size or not. Small file sizes are preferable)
>Quality (depends on how many frames you're putting in. The first, 2nd and 4th gifs are made with 100 quality value, while the 3rd one was made with 50 to fit the forum's constraints).
4. After this, just tick the box beside 'Grab'. Navigate to the section of the video you want to capture then press play. The stills should appear in the folder you previously set. In this case, I did screengrabs for the different sequences, sent them to the same folder then separated for smaller gifs, though I can only do this because the sequences are short and I'm only making 4 gifs. You can make separate folders for stills from different sequences.
The steps after this are for Adobe ImageReady CS. Not sure how to do it with Photoshop, so just Google around. Photoshop allows some of those nifty effects, text overlays etc (the stuff on Tumblr basically).
5. Open ImageReady, click File, Import, then Folder to Frames. This basically makes all images in a folder into separate frames in an animation.
6. Select the folder containing the stills, then wait for the import. Check the filesize; obviously, more frames/bigger images means bigger file size. If even after optimisation it's still too big, you may consider recapturing the stills with lower quality or deleting some inbetween frames.
7. Select all/some frames and decide on the delay between each frames; in other words, the framerate. For the gifs I made, 0.04 seconds worked, though it's kind of in a case-by-case basis. I used the default value for the 2nd gifs so it's considerably slower (which is what I wanted since it's a short sequence). So, with this feature you can make part of the gif fast and other parts slow :)
8.When you're done, just 'Save Optimised As' a gif file.
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