- Here's how to make a GIF from video, quickly and easily.
In this video,
I'm gonna show you exactly how to create a GIF animation,
using my number one GIF maker app.
And this video-to-GIF process
works on almost any device, and it's completely free.
Now, since the last time we made a video like this,
now there's so many more options out there,
to help you create GIFs.
It's a feature in lots of video editing programs, and apps,
and even popular design tools like Canva,
makes the process fairly easy to do.
So after trying, and testing all the top options,
the service, and the app, that I recommend is Giphy.
So Giphy is not only a huge searchable library of GIFs
for you to download and use, and to share out.
It also has a really powerful GIF creation tool too.
And it's free.
It works on both desktop and mobile.
So I'm gonna show you how easy it is
to convert your videos to GIFs on both of them.
So not only can you make GIFs that you can download,
save to your computer, share to your phone,
that you can manually share out,
you can also store them on the Giphy platform as well,
which makes them much easier to access wherever you are.
But also if you apply to Giphy,
with a brand or an artist account,
you can also get your GIFs showing up
in things like Instagram as well,
when you're going through and adding GIFs.
So I'm gonna take you
through the process using the mobile app first,
and then we'll jump over to desktop.
Now I'm gonna be showing you on an iPhone,
but the process is pretty much exactly the same
on Android as well.
All right, so you wanna go ahead and open up the Giphy app,
and straight away, you can see all the trending GIFs
on the platform here.
Down at the bottom,
you can search to find GIFs,
and you can also access your account,
if you choose to set one up.
So you can see for this tutorial, I'm not even signed in.
So you can use this app totally for free,
without even creating an account.
So to make a GIF, we wanna go
up to the top right hand corner,
where it says, "create," with a plus button, press on that.
And hey, we're on screen.
So you can actually record a GIF directly into the app,
using your phone camera
or you can import a video that you've already got
that you want to convert,
just using the button down the bottom left to import it.
Now down the bottom here, you can also see,
we can create a GIF, a sticker, or animated text.
We're gonna leave it on GIF,
and there's also different filters
and things that you can apply,
swiping across the bottom here,
if this is something that you are into.
I'm gonna go back to just the standard one.
Now on the iPhone app, there is an extra feature here
that you don't currently have on Android.
And that is this one here.
If we press on this, then this is going to essentially
green screen out the background, and I can overlay myself
onto a trending or popular GIF.
So let's give this a try here.
Okay, so now I'm on here.
So I could make myself smaller,
and maybe give a thumbs up or something, a wave, cheer.
So we got that capability in here.
I'm gonna cancel outta that by pressing the X
back at the top.
We're just gonna create something
really simple, really straightforward,
and I'm gonna press and hold
on the record button here.
So here we go.
(upbeat music)
A very simple yes GIF we're creating.
Now, the first thing I'd recommend you do here
is trim down your footage.
So we can go over to the pair of scissors down the bottom,
and we can adjust the start time, and the end time,
of our recording.
So we could get rid of that time at the start,
to just before I start looking angry,
and we can take a little bit of time off the end.
It's a very excited yes.
So I'm gonna tap on this to go back to the main screen.
Next thing we wanna do is to crop, or resize our GIF.
So in the top right hand corner,
we can press on the crop button.
And in here, you've got your one by one,
three by two, 16 by nine, four by five, and nine by 16.
So you can create different size GIFs,
depending on where you want to post them.
Now, the standard sizes really are the one by one,
and the three by two.
So I'm gonna leave this one here as a one by one.
Now, while we're in this screen,
we can also crop, and zoom in,
on what we have recorded here.
So I'm gonna frame this up somewhere around here.
So I've got some room to add some text down the bottom,
and I'm gonna go continue to go back.
Then down at the bottom,
we're gonna hit on the two As,
which is gonna let us add some text.
We can type something in, let's go, "Yes."
We have a couple of exclamation marks.
And there's lots of different presets, and looks,
and styles and things in here,
that you can use for that text.
I'm just gonna go with something simple.
So let's go the default, and I'm gonna hit done.
Now with this text, we can pick it up.
We can move it around.
We can rotate it.
We can make it bigger, or smaller,
to really get the look that you are after.
So that's really basic
but you can also add in different effects,
and filters and things down the bottom here.
And the next one across will let you add in
different stickers and GIFs into your GIF.
And you've also got a fair bit of control
in customizing all this up with the video layers,
or text layers that you can access up here.
And they'll all show down the bottom area,
and you can reposition stuff,
and again, really get things looking the way that you want.
So when you're happy with your GIF,
you want to hit the across arrow down the bottom corner.
It just says to copy your GIF to your phone,
you can tap on your screen.
GIF is now copied.
You can then paste that into Instagram Messenger,
or wherever you want to send it.
You have the option to upload it to Giphy.
Obviously you'll need a Giphy account for that,
which is free, or you can hit share GIF,
and you can choose to save it as a video, or as a GIF file,
directly to your device.
Or you could directly share it out to messages,
messenger, Snapchat, or Instagram, with those buttons.
Now over on a computer, you wanna head to giphy.com.
And it's gonna look very similar to the app.
You've got your trending GIFs, and popular GIFs,
on the front page here,
where you can search and find other GIFs.
And you've also got a create button
up the top right hand corner.
So we're gonna click on create.
And then in here we can upload our images,
or video files to create our GIF.
We can also upload stickers,
or we can also import another GIF that we want to edit
or customize up, putting in our Giphy link into this box.
Or we can also put YouTube, or Vimeo links,
into this box as well.
So if there's a small snippet of one of your YouTube videos,
you can just paste your YouTube video link here.
Now I'm just gonna upload a short video file.
So I'm gonna go to choose file.
I'm gonna find our video clip,
and I'm gonna choose upload.
Now straight away, when we do that,
it is gonna prompt us to log in or create account.
So unlike the app
you will need to create a free account,
to be able to do it on the desktop.
Now I've already got an account, so I'm gonna choose login.
And once that's done, your upload will start.
Once that's done,
you'll see the little playback preview here,
and we can adjust the start time,
to really refine down the section of the video
that we want. So this was a quick little video
where I'm doing a few different actions,
that I can then create into GIFs.
So this first one
would be to present a title or something,
down the bottom here.
What else have we got?
Maybe pointing at some text, thinking,
or scratching my head, and saying "What?"
So you can see that there's a few different GIFs
that we could make, from this really quick video.
So I'm just gonna pick one here.
Let's go with this pointing one.
So we set our start time first.
Now we're gonna shorten up the duration,
so that it finishes,
before I move on to the next one.
Let's make it a little bit shorter.
That'll do. So once you've locked that down,
you wanna come across to continue to decorate.
Now probably the biggest thing you miss out on here
on the desktop, versus in the app,
is the ability to crop it down to the different sizes.
So right now there is no functionality to crop this
down to different sizes.
You can see, we have lots of tools and things in here
to customize this up,
but we are locked at the original video size.
I mean, it's not really a problem,
definitely something that you want to be aware of though.
So in here we can add in our text, or captions, or stickers.
We've got filters and things in here as well,
to change the look,
and we can also draw onto our GIF as well.
So we're gonna come back over here to captions,
and let's just say, "New video."
Let's pick our style.
Which one do we like to look of?
Let's go meme.
We can choose our animation.
I kind of like the glitch one.
We can pick it up.
We can move it around.
We can resize it, make it bigger, or smaller.
And let's move it down here.
So I'm pointing at our title here.
And we can change the colors,
and those sorts of things, up the top as well.
Once you're done, you can gotta continue, to upload.
You can specify if this GIF
is gonna be public or private, on your Giphy page,
or in your Giphy account.
You can add some tags.
So if you're going public,
what people could search for, to find this GIF.
We could go public.
We could go new video, might also go YouTube video.
You wanna give our GIF a rating.
Ours can be G.
And you can save it into a collection,
or I guess a folder of GIFs,
just to help you organize them, if you've got a few.
Once you're done,
we can hit upload to Giphy.
It's gonna go ahead and create our GIF.
It should be a drinking game.
How many times have I say GIF in this video?
How many times have I annoyed people
that say, "It's JIF, not GIF."
But once that's done, we have our GIF here.
We can come over to download.
We can download it as a GIF, or download it as an MP4.
And there's even different file size options
down here as well.
So as you can see, this is the fastest,
and the easiest way, to create GIFs right now.
Now, if you wanna start sharing out
your shining new GIFs with the world,
then check out our complete guides
on how to make YouTube stories, and Instagram stories,
like a pro.
Both of those are linked on screen now.
I'll see you in there.