Post by cjm on Aug 9, 2019 18:06:23 GMT
The basic idea is to take a short strip from a video (clip) and to convert that into gif format.
Animated gifs can be created from still images (eg a series of jpg images) as well. I am not going into that here.
There are two basic approaches to creating gifs from video.
Approach 1
Here one utilizes one of the many free on-line conversion services such as Giphy.
The Giphy website gives two options at top right: Upload or Create. The idea of the Upload option is to upload already existing gifs - whether created from still or video. The Create option is to turn a video from its native form (say, mpg-4), into a gif. The Create option also allows various changes to be made to the eventual gif - eg to shorten it or change the frames shown per second.
The Giphy website then allows you to upload the creation to Giphy or Imgur (where it will be accessible via a link). It means that your creation is stored on-line and it is not necessary to hunt for a server to take it on-line.
Approach 2
Free software, for local installation on your pc, is available to convert a video into gif format. The entire gif creation process then takes place on your pc. You can also manipulate the creative process of the gif. Your creation will be in gif format.
For Windows and Mac there is quite an array of software - I run an Ubuntu system and am not familiar with these.
For Ubuntu/Linux the choice seems more limited and GifCurry seems the name that crops up most often.
After an attempt to install GifCurry from the Ubuntu Software Repository on my Ubuntu 18.04 OS, which came to naught, I followed the instructions at VITUX, with positive results. It appears to be essential to make sure that the required dependencies are installed prior to the download of the main program. It is all explained in the VITUX link above. The Snap installation path did not work for me though and I used the AppImage procedure (all documented in the VITUX link).