Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
Let me show you how to take one of your videos and make an animated GIF.
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So say you want to take one of your videos and create an animated GIF to share online
because we all know what the internet really needs is more GIFs.
Previously you'd need to buy an app to do this.
There are plenty of good apps that can do it.
But thanks to Keynote's ability to export animated GIFs you can use it to take one of
your videos and create a GIF without any additional software.
I do want to get one thing out of the way before we go any further.
Yes, I pronounce it GIF.
As a guy named Gary I gotta go with GIF.
Alright.
So first make sure you're using the latest version of Keynote 9.0.2 because you want
the ability to export as an animated GIF.
I'm going to create a presentation the same screen ratio as the video.
Since it's a 16 x 9 widescreen video I'm going to use a wide theme.
I'm just going to use the standard black background there.
I'm going to zoom out so I can see the entire thing and get rid of the default text.
Now I'm going to drag and drop the video from the Finder right into Keynote.
Drop it right in there.
You want to make sure you lock it there so it fills the entire screen.
So now you just have a single slide in a presentation that has video on it.
I could, if I want, create the animated GIF right now.
Go to File, Export To, Animated GIF.
But I'm going to work on it a little bit.
One of the things that I can do is I can trim this to get only the portion of the video
I want.
So with the video selected I go to Format, Movie, and in here you can see there's Trim.
I can trim it to what I want.
So say I want to capture this first firework going off here.
So I can get it to that point, right there, and just capture a small portion of the video.
I can then go to Export, to only export that portion.
Now when I export there are a few options to look at.
The first is the Resolution.
So I can create a very large, you can see here 1080 x 608, GIF.
I can go smaller 720 x 405; 480 x 270 and smallest.
A lot of GIFs are really pretty small.
You put them in text messages and things so I'll go with the smallest here.
I can also adjust the Frame Rate down to 15 frames per second and create a smaller file.
Auto Advance, I want to set that to zero because if I don't, if I leave it one second, it's
going to put a one second delay at the end of the GIF so when it loops it will delay
for a second at the end.
So now I go to Next and I'll export this to the desktop.
So now here's my GIF here.
I can hit the spacebar for QuickLook to see a preview of it.
You can see it's just this looping GIF.
Just a few seconds long.
There's still more we can do.
We can crop the dimensions of the video.
We can even add text to it very easily since this is in Keynote.
Let's get rid of this video here and I'm going to bring in another one.
This is a 640 x 480 video.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on the background here and then go to Document
and then Document and change the size to Custom Size here and change it so that it's 640 x
480.
The exact size of this little video.
I'm going to zoom back out and I'm going to stretch this to fit perfectly in there.
This is an ideal kind of video for looping.
So let's make that happen.
With the video selected go to Format, Movie, and go to Trim here.
I'm going to notice at the beginning here I can see this blade is right at that corner.
So let's see if we can match that here at the end.
Let's get this next blade right at the same spot.
Now I don't want to do it right at the same spot because it will repeat that last frame.
I want to do it like one step before there.
So you can see the blade is just before it gets to the corner there.
So now a loop should make it look really nice.
Let's give it a try.
Going to export to Animated GIF. 15 frames per second.
I'm going to make sure that Auto Advance is set to zero so there's no delay between the
loop and I'm going to export this.
Now if we check out this video we can see it loops really nicely.
You don't even notice there when it's actually going through the loop because the blade is
hitting the same point there at the corner.
Next let's add some text.
It's so easy to do since this is Keynote.
You can just add a text box here.
I can move that here and type something.
Enlarge it and put that where I want.
I can even add another one if I'm trying to promote a website or something.
Then export it and it's just going to have that as part of it now.
So here's the new GIF.
Here's some other ideas.
I created a custom size here of 200 x 300.
I've put a video in and set it up so I'm not showing the entire video.
Just this portion of it is actually in the presentation area.
So when I export all
I'm going
to get is that.
So it's
real easy to crop a vide