- Hey everyone, this is your easy-goin' and energetic
YouTube expert Derral Eves.
Now, creating animated GIFs for your YouTube videos
can be a lot of fun,
but it's also a great way to actually
promote your video and your channel.
Now, YouTube really gives a lot of love to channels
that can actually bring traffic to YouTube.
The reason why is they can do more ads,
and if they make more ads, they make more money.
(cash register ring)
Pretty simple, right?
Well, creating animated GIFs is a powerful way
to actually showcase your video without doing the embed,
so you're actually bringing the traffic to YouTube.
So in this video, I'm going to show you
three different ways how to actually create
animated GIFs for your YouTube channel,
and also at the end of this video, we've got a contest.
You've gotta be in the contest,
so let's do this.
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- [Derral] Alright, so in this video
I'm going to show you three different ways
that you're actually able to create
animated GIFs for your promotion of your Youtube videos.
So, first off, you need to select the video
that you want to create as an animated GIF.
I'm here on Geekify Guys, my other channel,
and there is a total wreck
that I totally biff it hard on a hoverboard,
so I'm gonna show you where that's at.
It is three minutes and 50 seconds,
or something like that.
Check this out, so I'm there, boom!
So I want that as an animated GIF,
I think it'd grab people's attention to get them to go.
So the first thing that we need to do is to select the URL.
So I'm gonna go ahead, select the URL
by clicking on the share button
and coming down here and selecting that and copying it.
The next one is, I'm going to show you
three different places to go.
The first one is Giphy.com.
You'll come to their website right here
and all you need to do is click create.
So I'm going to go ahead and click create.
And then all you need to do is enter in that URL,
so I'm going to go ahead and paste that URL in here.
And it's going to go ahead and load the video,
and watch it create the animated GIF.
So for this one, we know it's at 3:50,
actually let's just adjust it this way,
it'll be easier.
Just click on it and hold your mouse down
and right there, you'll see.
Boom!
That hurt.
It really did (laughs).
Boom!
Okay that was a big hit.
So it's looks pretty good.
I like that, maybe come back a few seconds
so you're just getting the hit.
So you can also add a caption,
so down here, go ahead and add a caption.
Epic Fail, actually Epic Fall,
how about just Epic.
Okay there we go.
Add a caption, you can choose the style
where it's default, meme style,
I like the meme one.
You can even choose colors on it.
I'm gonna keep it white
and you can click on this, hold it down,
and you can adjust it,
so I'm gonna go ahead and click that,
adjust it, bring it back up a little bit higher,
you're able to see that.
Boom!
That's awesome.
Okay, so that's the first one,
then after you're done, go ahead and create a GIF
and then you're able to download it.
The next one I really, really like is Gif.com,
Gifs.com I guess.
You come here, what we want to do
is paste that URL in again.
And this one gives you a lot more options:
you can add a sticker,
but let's go ahead and you can select your time first.
So let's go ahead and do that.
And then we just click on this
and adjust this where we want it.
So you can see that, how simple this really is.
It is so nice.
So I'm going to go ahead and add a sticker on it,
I'm going to go ahead and oh my gosh (laughs).
So you can add stickers on it,
you can also add captions,
same thing that we did before,
but all you have to do is type right on it
and you can just select it, come down,
if I want it a little bit bigger
you can just click on it and pull it a little bit bigger.
You can crop it or you can do some padding there,
whatever it may be, it's really, really nice.
You can flip it around, add multiple captions on it,
so if you want something smaller you can do that.
Epic...fall.
So really, really easy to do that,
you can change your font, you can change the type of font,
the color, and your alignment.
Really nice.
Go ahead and create a GIF.
You do need to create an account for both of these.
If you don't have one, it's really nice
and it's really easy to set up as well.
Now the last way is not even leaving YouTube.
All you've got to be is in your video manager,
really simple, only if you have TubeBuddy,
and you can get your plug-in at TubeBuddy.com/go.
Once you have that and install that plug-in
I can come here and click on that,
come down to animated GIF generator
and we're able to adjust it,
so let me go ahead and put it where the fall's at,
so I like it about right there.
Really simple, you can see the preview of that.
That right there is really easy,
just kind of adjust the green and the red,
green's where you want it to start,
where you want it to stop.
We can also add text in this.
And it automatically selects the time
when it's going to do it,
so we're just going to do Epic again.
We want it to be extra large, white,
and we want it bold of course.
I'm gonna go ahead and hit add,
and you can just kind of put in the thing there,
just kind of click on it, move it around.
I'm gonna go ahead and click on the bounding box here.
Hold down your mouse and make it smaller or bigger,
and I like that for sure.
And all you've got to do is hit generate GIF.
So it's just going to take a second to render.
Now that you have it here,
you can either click the download button,
post it to Pinterest or add it to Twitter
if you're connected with a Twitter account,
or create another GIF.
I'm going to go ahead and just hit download,
and I actually have that to use.
Now that I showed you how
to create those animated GIFS for YouTube videos,
it's time for the contest.
It's going to be awesome.
Now, I am going to give away
a one-on-one private consultation
for the person that can make me laugh the most...
(laughing)
with an animated GIF of course.
So here's the rules:
you've got to follow me on Twitter,
that's pretty easy, right?
Now, the second one is a little bit more difficult,
You've gotta use your skills
that I actually taught you how to create those animated GIFS
for your videos, and you have
to make an animated GIF of me.
Use content from this channel
or from my Geekify Guys channel, doesn't matter.
Now, the third thing is you have to create a Tweet
using that animated GIF,
and also that hashtag that says CrazyDerralGif.
That makes it really easy for me to actually find it.
And lastly, the one that actually makes me laugh the most
is the winner of the free consultation.
I really look forward to this,
this is going to be a fun thing for me.
Hopefully you're gonna have fun on this one too.
I hope to see some craziness going on (laughs).
Please keep it family safe.
Now, there's one thing I need to know before you go,
is it animated gif or animated jif?
Put it in the comments below,
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
That's gonna be a fun one to read as well.
Thank you so much guys for coming on
and watching this video.
If you haven't subscribed yet, go ahead and subscribe
and watch a video or two,
unless you're going to make an animated GIF of me
and win the contest.
Thanks guys, and have a wonderful and productive day.