Wanna make GIFs? Of course you do.
For this tutorial, you'll need to download an app called GIFBrewery. It's $5 in the app store, and for now available only for Mac OS X. Once you've got it downloaded, here's what you've gotta do.
Win the internet, no Photoshop required. (But you will need $5 and a Mac... sorry PC users.)
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For this tutorial, you'll need to download an app called GIFBrewery. It's $5 in the app store, and for now available only for Mac OS X. Once you've got it downloaded, here's what you've gotta do.
All about that hot cocoa.
Right-click or long-click on the QuickTime Player icon in your dock to get those options right there, instead of launching the application.
You should have a good idea of what part of the video you want to turn into a GIF. Make sure that your video is lined up so that you get to that part relatively quickly (otherwise you're dealing with a really big file on your computer, blech).
GOT IT.
Here's where the magic happens.
The best GIFs will only show the absolutely necessary parts of your video. You want to make sure that you're not over- or undershooting the beginning and end. Play around with it if you need to.
Once you've got the GIF start and end points set, you might want to resize your GIF or crop it so that it focuses more closely on the part of the video that you want people to see. Making it smaller will also make the file size smaller, BTW.
That's also where you can change the color, font, and more.
If you don't like what you see, just click Discard and make the changes you need to make. Things to watch out for: Is it too fast or too slow? Do you like where the words are? Is the file size too big? You can see the file size in the upper left-hand corner of your preview GIF.) The bigger the file size, the slower it might be to load.
(This GIF-of-a-GIF is a little meta, btw)
The default Frame Count is 24 — higher frame counts slow the GIF down, lower frame counts speed it up.