- In this video, I'm gonna show you how to make
a gif from a video.
Fast and easy, and using free software.
And this video to gif process works
on almost any device.
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Now, there's a lot of options out there
when it comes to creating custom animated gifs, or gifs,
ranging from advanced software,
like the Adobe Suite,
to hundreds of random apps on the iOS,
or the Android app stores.
But, there is one service that makes this
whole process really, really simple.
And it works on almost any device.
And it also happens to be completely free.
So, it's kinda ticking all the boxes.
In this video, we're gonna run through
exactly how to use it.
After testing a bunch of the apps,
and the other options out there,
the service that I recommend is called GIPHY.
Or is it GIPHY, no one really knows.
I'm gonna call it GIPHY.
Either way, that's the one that you should use.
So what GIPHY is, is a massive library,
and search engine of gifs and animated gifs
that you can use wherever you use gifs.
But not only is it a search engine and library,
it also has the tools in there to help you
create your own as well, and publish it to their platforms,
and they also help you publish your gifs,
so that you can use them on things like
Instagram stories through stickers,
and other cool stuff as well.
So there's two main ways that you can use GIPHY
to create your gifs.
One is on a computer, and you go to their website,
and create it on there.
Or, you can download their iOS app,
or their Android app.
Now the apps themselves are identical,
so I'm not gonna take you through both of them,
but the desktop version, or the web browser version,
does have some different features to the app version.
So I'm gonna take you through both
options really quickly,
so you have a solid understanding of which process
is going to be the best for what
you're looking to achieve.
Okay, so I'm on my iPhone now,
I'm gonna open up the GIPHY app.
You can see straight away you've got heap
of different featured and recommended gifs and things,
trending ones, and stuff that you can use wherever.
But that's not what we're here for.
Down the bottom, you wanna come down to the plus button
to create your own.
Hey, how you doin'?
If we wanna record a gif from the camera,
we can just press the little record button down here.
Let's record something short.
A crazy little wave.
We can trim that down using the scissors down the bottom.
So if we wanna shorten this down.
So you're able to quickly film and record
your own gifs.
Let's trim off the end, just this.
There we go, so it's just...(laughing)
Something silly!
All right, let's hit the tick to apply.
You can then come across and you can crop this down.
That's probably the next thing you'll wanna do,
is to trim it down, or crop it down,
to the right size.
So we can come at the top right hand corner
to the crop.
In most causes you're probably gonna want a square,
one by one, so you can pick those along the bottom.
And then you can pinch to zoom,
or tap to move around to reposition your video here.
Once you're done, hit the tick.
There's other things that you can do
across the bottom here.
You can add stickers.
If you wanna add some stickers
and those sorts of things in.
There's effects in here as well.
And then all you need to do
is hit the purple button,
the across arrow,
and you're able to save this out.
If you just wanna save it to your device,
or quickly post it somewhere,
just hit share gif,
and you've got all your standard sharing options,
and obviously the ability to save
your gif there as well.
If we back out of this,
you also get the option here to upload to GIPHY.
And this is where you can create a free account with them,
and you can store all of the gifs that you create.
If you are looking to get your gifs through
to places like Instagram and Instagram stories,
you will need to create an account,
and you will need to apply
to get your account verified,
in order to get your gifs to show up in there.
That's not something we're gonna
run through in this video,
they've got all the information
on their website on how you can do that.
Now if we back out of this now,
and go back and no create a video here,
we can actually import videos that
are on our device as well.
So if we just press the button
down the bottom right hand corner,
we can select a video from our device.
Let's pick this one here,
where I'm showing the teleprompter for something.
Again, we can trim it down using the scissors.
Change a new start time, a new end time,
make this one really short.
We'll go to crop, let's make it square,
let's slide it across so it's in the middle,
maybe make it a little bit bigger.
And you might then want to add some text.
Create videos easily.
Hit the tick, we can then position that down the bottom.
And again, then when you wanna share it out,
you just hit the purple button.
So the process is pretty similar
over on the computer as well.
You wanna head to www.GIPHY.com,
come up the top here to create.
That'll open up their gif maker.
From here you can import photos,
or existing gifs to be able to create your own.
You can choose an existing video
that's on your computer.
It says here trim your video into a gif,
then add captions or stickers.
This is pretty much the process
that we just ran through on the phone.
But the biggest addition here,
or the biggest change here,
that you get access to that you don't have
on the smartphone app,
is the ability to bring in videos,
and create gifs from places like YouTube, or Vimeo.
So we're gonna go ahead and paste in
a link from one of our YouTube videos.
This is just our channel trailer.
Do be aware that there is a 15 minute maximum duration,
so you need to make sure that your recording,
or that your YouTube video that you're pasting in there,
isn't longer than 15 minutes.
So the first step then, is you can see it's playing
the video here.
God, that guy looks pretty young.
You wanna choose the start time,
so let's just scrub across here to something
that looks pretty cool.
Somewhere around here.
This was a shot in Fiji,
I think it was Laurie Towner
getting a decent wipe-out there.
You can see that the duration
here is too long at four seconds,
so we wanna shorten this down so it doesn't
go for as long, we don't wanna see me at the end of it.
Let that play through.
Maybe we can go a little bit more.
Perfect, 3.3 seconds.
We then can go Continue to Decorate.
We can then easily add in text as well,
I don't know, ouch.
Guess it would have hurt if he hit the bottom.
We have control over where we're putting the text,
so we can move it down the bottom here.
You've got a heap of different ways
that you can click and change the way
that it's all appeared.
Like this one here.
Ouch kinda comes up around the same set of time.
That's not bad.
You've also then got access to stickers again at the top,
and you can search for them.
You can add in filters to change the way it looks.
We're gonna add a glitch to it.
Ripples,
Spooky, let's go none.
Or you can actually draw on there as well.
If you wanna draw something out,
an arrow or a smiley face or something,
you can do that in here as well.
But once you've gone through
and set this up how you want,
all you need to do is select Continue to Upload.
It's a good idea here to enter some tags
so that you can find this later.
Let's go wipeout, and then you just hit Upload to GIPHY.
That will go through, and that will create our gif.
And then our gif is created.
Now, I do wanna point out here,
I'm not even logged in to an account.
You're able to do all of this without
even creating an account.
Obviously, if you wanna save this to your own account
so you can come back and find it quickly later,
I would strongly recommend you create an account,
and do it that way.
But you don't need one.
Now that that's done, you can literally just right click
on here and choose Save Image As,
and that will save that gif to your computer.
Or, you can come over here to copy link,
and that will copy it so you can paste it
and share it out.
You can click on media here, and this will give you access
to the source files.
A social media version says here
optimized for social sharing, 10 meg or less.
There is an MP4 if you want a video file,
or there is a small optimize file, 2 meg or less.
Just hit copy, and you've got that direct link to that.
You can hit embed to embed it on your website or blog,
or you can come down to the bottom here
to share it, and this is where you got access to
all of your social sharing for that gif as well.
So that's how easy it is.
So that's all you need to do,
and you can see how painless and quickly
you can create these things.
So that's how easy it is to create gifs
from your Android device, your iPhone,
or even your desktop computer as well.
Now linked on screen is a video
showing you how you can make
Instagram stories like a professional.
Interested in upping your Instagram story game?
Or even your Snapchat story game,
if people still use that.
Then check out that video,
because we take you through the entire process.
I'll see you in the next one.