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Nov 1 2011 01:58pm
Basically, I want to be able to take a videos and cut certain parts of them to make gifs. Let me know if you have a tutorial or some kind of program that can do this. Thanks.
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Nov 2 2011 04:34pm
Does no one know how to do this or is everyone just to lazy to post a link?
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Nov 4 2011 12:28am
try the search engine google
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Nov 5 2011 01:33pm
Quote (KitsuneYosh @ Nov 1 2011 02:58pm)
Basically, I want to be able to take a videos and cut certain parts of them to make gifs. Let me know if you have a tutorial or some kind of program that can do this. Thanks.


I was wondering about this. I know how to mess with the layers in a gif and what not but not how to cut them out of a video. Check google like Raccoon said if you're really interested.
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Nov 14 2011 09:45am
I use 3 different programs to do this:

Hamster Video converter ( I get most of my videos from youtube which is .FLV and need converted to .AVI or .MPEG )
VirtualDub ( This is the program you will use to "cut" or crop selected parts of a video ) - Note: Ive had countless problems with this program from "Unrecognizeable File Type" errors and "Unable to load program" errors ... its annoying, but I havent found a better solution yet.
Photoshop ( You will open the cropped video in photoshop and saved it as a .gif32 or .gif64 )

Once you have it converted and cropped. Open it in PS. You probably will want to shrink the video's dimensions down or you will have a .gif that is like 10 - 100 MB. That is simply too big.

To shrink the dimensions, you can use the crop tool or go to Image -> Image Size -> and Adjust the HxW . You will need to convert it to a smart object, so click "Yes".

Now that the video is shrunk down, go to File -> Save As -> Web n Devices . In here, you want to set it to "Loop Forever" and either .gif32 , .gif64, or create your own settings. Try to get the highest quality settings without topping like 2 - 4MB . Anything over 4MB might take forever to load.
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