- Hey guys, in the run up to Social Media Marketing World,
we created this fun GIF game and it went down a storm.
- We got a tonne of requests asking for us to show you
how to do it yourself,
so we thought we would just do that.
There's two main ways to create a GIF.
The first is from a series of images,
just like our Social Media Marketing World one.
We created a brand new image for each scene,
I guess you would call it,
of the GIF on Illustrator, exported them all
and put them all together to make the GIF.
You could do exactly the same thing on something like Canva,
just creating a new page for each scene of the GIF.
- The second is taking a video and using a small
proportion of it to create your GIF.
The two software choices, that we're gonna show you today
to create your own GIFs,
allow you to upload a video from your hard drive,
or take a clip from YouTube.
- So top points, whoever uses this YouTube video
to create their own GIF.
- Yeah.
- Send that one to us (laughing).
So, how do you create one for free?
Our favourite site for creating GIFs is Giphy.com.
This is what it looks like, I know it's a little bit mental,
but creating GIFs is super, super easy on this site.
You just click on Create here
and then these are all the different ways
that you can create a GIF.
So you could enter your YouTube vine or video URL here.
You can Browse and upload your own video
or you can create a Slideshow, which is what we did
for the Social Media Marketing World one.
Just upload your files.
So, upload your files and then you can set the speed here,
so you have like this goes super, super, super fast.
You can also reorder your images, if you like.
It doesn't really matter for this one, but for yours
you might need to have it in a particular order.
Now, the problem we had with Giphy is that it only allowed
50 images to create the GIF and we had about 80 odd,
because there were so many speakers.
- [Pete] Yeah (laughs).
- [Andrew] So what we used instead was makeagif.com.
We don't think it's quite as nice to use as Giphy,
but it does allow for much more images to create your GIF.
So very similarly, just click on Pictures to GIF,
upload your images
and like Giphy, you can change the speed of the GIFs,
so it's going super, super, super quick
and then click Create GIF.
However, we had a problem.
Although we could create it technically in makeagif,
we had so many scenes to this GIF,
that it was just so big and it wouldn't export.
It literally wouldn't go past this screen.
- However, Andrew and Pete are never beat.
So what did we do?
We could see the GIF working,
but we just couldn't export it.
So what we did was we used a screen recorder,
like Snagit or Camtasia, and once we had that as a video,
we could upload it into Giphy and put it all together
to make one beautiful GIF.
- [Andrew] So, this is the video we created of the GIF,
just be screen grabbing it
and then just uploaded that back into Giphy
and it created our GIF, based on the video.
OK, hope that was helpful, guys.
We wanna see your GIFs now, so go and get creating
and send them to us so we can have a gander.
- Gander?
- I know, I don't know what that was
I don't know where that word came from.
(laughing)
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- Give it a gander (laughing).
- I've been Andrew.
- I've been Pete.
- See you next week.
P.S., yes, it's GIF, not JIF.
- What you gonna do about it? (laughs)