After all my many years on the internet, I have only just now discovered how to make animated gifs from video captures. (Turns out it's super easy with the right program!)

I knew right away what my first gifset had to be: my favorite part of the ending credits sequence from the second half of The Witch from Mercury, I just think it's a really powerful sequence, somehow.

(There are no spoilers in these images, by the way.)

#Anime #AnimatedGIF #GIFset #Gundam #TheWitchFromMercury #SulettaMercury

@NieA_78 what are you using? To translate videos to gifs I used pixelmator but I donโ€™t think it gives me enough control over the resulting image size etc (sharing on tumblr is difficult), I would like to know other ways to see if I have them available ๐Ÿ™

@aquietjune I'm on a Mac computer and I found Giphy Capture to make animated GIFs. When you open the program there's a resizable green recording window. You just put that window over what you want to turn into a gif, play the source (in my case it was a video playing in VLC, but it could be anything), hit record in Giphy Capture and then stop when the scene you want is over. Then you can open the clip for editing the start and end of different sections, and just export each one as a GIF. All in the same program!

To make it work on a Mac you have to go into your macOS system preferences into Privacy & Security > Screen Recording and allow Giphy Capture to record the screen. They don't tell you that and a lot of people couldn't get the program to work because they didn't know that part, and the program doesn't prompt you to allow the permission when you first use it either.

Hope that helps!

@NieA_78 thank you! I usually do the GIPHY capture part in iMovie (being on a Mac as well) but that takes certainly longer and I need to have the materials downloaded to transform. Keynote is also very good for making videos to turn into gif, but I still wish I knew better ways. Video editing is such a great skill to have ๐Ÿ˜ฉ