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From a Captain Picard facepalm to a dancing Homer Simpson, there\u2019s an animated GIF for every occasion. Which is one reason why they\u2019re still regularly used in emails, forum posts, on web pages and so on. (Although another is probably compatibility: unlike more modern technologies, such as HTML5 or CSS3, animated GIFs work just about everywhere.)<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re tired of reposting one of the standard animations, though, why not create a new GIF of your own? It\u2019s surprisingly easy. Any GIF Animator<\/a> imports just about any video or YouTube clip, and once you\u2019ve zoomed in on the section you\u2019d like to use, can have a quality animated GIF ready and online in just a few seconds.<\/p>\n After a quick installation (no adware, but the program does ask to install Media Player Codec Pack Lite) you\u2019re able to import your first video. The program can open a wide range of formats (3GP, ASF, AVI, DAT, FLV, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, RAM\/RM\/ RMVB, TS, VOB, WEBM, WMV), and it\u2019ll also download YouTube clips if you just provide the appropriate URL.<\/p>\n An embedded media player then allows you to browse through your video clip, find and mark the section you\u2019d like to convert. Oddly, you can\u2019t step through the movie in frames — the smallest increment is a tenth of a second — so you\u2019re not able to be as precise as we\u2019d like. But otherwise this is a fairly simple operation, and you\u2019ll quickly have your core clip ready.<\/p>\n If you\u2019d like fine control over your animation then the good news is that Any GIF Animator provides lots of configuration options. So you can set the GIF\u2019s size and frame rate; crop the image; tweak saturation, brightness and contrast; add a text caption, choose the best dithering method, set the animation type (looping, direction) and more.<\/p>\n But if you\u2019re not sure whether you need any of this, or are just in a hurry, then you can just accept the default settings — they work well, most of the time.<\/p>\n And when you\u2019re happy with the clip, all you have to do is click “Convert to GIF” and Any GIF Animator will process your chosen video, create an animated GIF version, and upload it to the AnyGif server, where you\u2019ll be given the URLs you need to share the clip with others.<\/p>\n Perhaps most annoyingly, Any GIF Animator doesn\u2019t even provide an option to save a local copy of your animation. If you want to do this then you\u2019ll need to either allow it to be uploaded, then save it from your browser, or make a copy of the temporary file the program creates — see C:\\Users\\[UserName]\\AppData\\Roaming\\Any GIF Animator, for instance, or search your system for out.gif.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot to like about Any GIF Animator<\/a>, then, and you can use it right now to produce quality animations. The program also has some significant annoyances, though, and it really needs a local save option to be added very soon.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong> Alex Kosev<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n From a Captain Picard facepalm to a dancing Homer Simpson, there\u2019s an animated GIF for every occasion. Which is one reason why they\u2019re still regularly used in emails, forum posts, on web pages and so on. (Although another is probably compatibility: unlike more modern technologies, such as HTML5 or CSS3, animated GIFs work just about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Any-gif-animator-300x184.png\" "\\"Any")
One very obvious issue here is that the program doesn\u2019t offer you a choice about uploading animations — it just does it. And your GIF will then immediately be visible to anyone who visits the site, so bear that in mind before you create anything of a, well, personal nature. (We\u2019d also urge caution if you\u2019re looking for something family-friendly; the program itself is fine, but view what others are creating on the website and you\u2019ll find plenty of porn.)<\/p>\n\n<\/img><\/a>
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