How to Make a Motion Gif From a Video File (A Moving Picture)

by joejoerowley

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Intro: How to Make a Motion Gif From a Video File (A Moving Picture)

Hi,
In this short instructable I am going to teach you how to make a motion gif from a video file. It is very simple and does not cost a dime. I showing you this because people have asked me many times how I make motion gifs so here is an instructable. If you would like to learn how to convert videos into other file formats you can check out my other instructable.

Here is a sample motion Gif.

STEP 1: Materials/Software

Materials
Video Clip-
SUPER video Converter software- It is a free program that converts music and video files into other formats.

STEP 2: Conversion

Conversion
After downloading and installing SUPER open up the program. Then drag your video file into the program and select Gif and then click encode. You can look at the pictures for more detailed instructions.

STEP 3: Done

Now you should have a motion Gif that you can upload to the internet for your next instructable. The advantages of motion gifs is that they are smaller files then full blown videos but they don't have sound.

12 Comments

Christine Smith 9 years ago

Thanks for sharing, while another quick way is to use the easy tool "Jing" which can record the screen and output to GIF format.

soulshank 15 years ago

it's alright.....I bypassed your link above.....it is not good anymore.....I found it somewhere else.....thx

pnus99 14 years ago

where did you find it

watermelon 16 years ago

The latest version is flagged by AVG as containing a Trojan Downloader. The suspect file is mencoder.exe

joe57005 15 years ago

SUPER is just a frontend for mencoder, if mencoder's infected just download a new one from the source, mplayerhq. just overwrite the old mplayer/mencoder files. I used to use super but stopped months ago when i switched to linux. if you, like me, aren't using winblows, you can still do this from the command line with mencoder. (it has versions for winblows, linux, and mac)

joejoerowley 15 years ago

Yeah windows does suck.I run ubuntu, Leopard and xp on this box but mainly use leopard. I did windows to show the majority(xp users). Thanks for the tips! Joe R

joejoerowley 16 years ago

Thank you. I will remove the link. I don't have AVG. I hope I can find a good download site.

joejoerowley 16 years ago

I just found a new link. I will upload it to my private site and instructables.

grimfig 15 years ago

Which link on the site do we download it from