- How to turn a video into a GIF.
Maybe you've got a video clip that you've recorded yourself
or maybe there's a funny section of a Twitch stream
that you wanna to turn into a animated GIF.
In this video I'm gonna show you
how to turn any video file in to a GIF
in just a few simple steps.
Let's do it.
I'll be showing you which editing software to use,
how to edit the video down to a specific section,
how to resize it for different social media platforms,
and how to add some text to it as well.
To make my GIF I'm gonna be using VEED,
which is an easy to use online video editing software
based entirely within your internet browser
and it makes editing all kinds of social media content
very very easy.
So first thing first, I'm gonna head over to veed.io
and then on the home page I'm gonna click upload your video.
I've got my clip ready to go on the desktop here,
so I'm just gonna hit upload a file.
Select my clip there,
and hit open.
Now I'm just gonna wait for it
to appear in the VEED timeline
which can take up to a few minutes
depending on how big your file is
and what your internet connection is like.
It's worth mentioning that you can use
any type of video file with VEED
and you can even upload an existing GIF
that you want to make some edits or changes to.
Okay, so I've imported my video
and is now sitting down there in the video timeline.
So I'm just gonna hit play and see what we're working with.
So it's just me walking into frame,
sitting down and then turning to camera
and giving a nice big cheesy grin and a thumbs up.
So let's say I just want to use
that middle section of the video.
So I don't want to see myself walking in.
I don't wanna see myself put my thumb down at the end.
I just wanna use that sweet spot in the middle.
The easiest way to do this
is just by trimming of the ends of the video.
So if I go to my clip,
select it,
go right to the end,
hover my cursor over that,
and then click and drag,
and that will then trim away
as much or as little the video as I want,
and then on the other side,
I'm gonna get the end of the clip.
Just the same click and drag to,
I'm gonna say about there,
and then when I finish trimming,
I'm just gonna drag the clip to the start of the timeline,
and now if I hit play you can see that I'm just left
with that short section from the middle
that I want to turn into a GIF.
Now before we export you might want to resize your video
in to a square or maybe that longer aspect ratio
that you use on Instagram stories.
VEED lets you change any video file
in to a new shape with just a few clicks.
Now I want to crop my GIF into a square,
so to do that I'm just gonna go up to settings here
in the top left
and then the size here and in the drop down menu
I'm gonna select square
and you'll see that it instantly changes my video
in to a square shape.
Now as you can see there's still a black border
on the top and bottom of my clip.
So I'm just gonna resize it so it fills the whole frame,
and to do that, I'm just gonna click and drag like this.
Just pull it so it fills the entire box
and then I can also drag the video clip like this.
Make any little adjustments so I can have it
exactly how I want it.
I want my head to be in the middle there.
You might also want to add some text
which also really easy to do.
So I'm gonna go back over to the left hand side
and select text,
and then from this menu I'm just gonna select headline text
which automatically drops a text box
on to your video,
and now I'm gonna type in "Great".
Cause I want this to be kind of a reaction GIF.
So I've got my text in there now,
I'm gonna change the font to Anton
and I'm also gonna change the color to white
and then I'm gonna drag the text box down
to the bottom of the video frame,
and I'm just gonna resize it
cause I want it to be a bit bigger.
You can just drag the box like so,
reposition it.
So now I need to make sure that the text
is gonna appear at the right time within the GIF.
So you see it sitting down there in the video timeline.
I'm just gonna drag it towards the end
and I want the great to appear when I lift my thumb up.
So I'm just gonna search for that moment
which is around there
and I'm gonna drag the text box
just like you did with the video clip to resize it,
to make sure it appears at the right place.
So if I drag my playhead to the beginning of the clip,
hit play,
you'll see that the video is now playing perfectly
with the text.
So you're all done editing and you're ready to export.
I'm going to go to the top right corner of the screen,
hit export and then export video,
and VEED will now start the render
and when it's done you can review it one more time
by hitting play.
There's my GIF.
I'm happy with that
so I'm just gonna over to the right hand side
and hit download GIF right there
and that will now download the GIF file to my computer.
So that's it, how to create a GIF from any video file.
It's worth bearing in mind
that you can't actually upload GIFs to Instagram.
You can upload them to your Instagram story
but not to your main feed.
So if I did want to do that
I'm gonna download as an MP4 instead
and that will upload to my Instagram feed.
So there you have it,
you now have a GIF ready to upload
on to your social media pages.
If you found this video useful,
make sure you leave it a thumbs up
and let me know down on the comments
what kind of GIFs you're gonna be making,
and if you want some more easy to follow
editing tutorials just like this,
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and I'll see you next time.