Then I am finally presented with a UI and it’s smooth sailing from here. I export that video then open it in Gif Brewery.
I simply loaded up QuickTime Player and did a few seconds of full screen capture. This is a non-inuitive start to what ended up being a very intuitive program. At this point in time you are left asking… open what? The answer of course is a video. You need to go up to the menu and select File->Open. When I first fired it up I was a bit confused, as there is no app, nor an icon. It’s one of those little 5$ utilities that will literally save me hours. Now that I am authoring these posts more from Mac, and felt the need to make another animated gif but no desire to go through the entire process again, I decided to check if there is an easier way, and there is… The universal problem, they give you very little control and end up generating either horrible quality or MASSIVE images. I tried a number of simpler processes that made use of video some local applications, others websites you upload your video to and they make it into a GIF. Generally it would take 20 minutes or more to create a single image.
#GIF BREWERY TAKE SCREENSHOT HOW TO#
I describe my process here under the poorly titled How to creating animated gifs. I generally created a series of screenshots using IrFan and compose them together into an animated gif using The GIMP.
Additionally, who wants to watch a 3 second video? One of the biggest downsides to making animated gifs like this is that frankly, it’s time consuming. Of course you could host the clip on Youtube, but first off, embedding dozens of YouTube videos in a single page can cause some browsers to go on strike. When you have several simple clips required to illustrate a point, and a series of images would take up too much space, animated gifs can be your best friend. Here is an example post making use of animated gifs. Right off the hop, this post has absolutely nothing to do with game development, but does have something to do with creating this site.Īs a bit of a throwback to the 1990s, I on occasion make use of animated gifs on this site.
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