In the Speed field, by selecting Normal you can change the frame delay, i.e. To change the background color, click Color and move the color over to black. There are several different color palettes and color wheels to choose from. The latter two end up cutting out some information, so I selected Fit. The Fill Mode field will allow you to select Fit, Fill or Stretch. You can also specify and save custom dimensions. (360 x 480 resulted in a 5.3 MB GIF whereas 640 x 960 resulted in a 19.4 MB GIF). This Pixar GIF is going to be 360 x 480 because I don’t want it to be that large of a file size. Next, I change the video’s dimensions by using the dropdown menu in the Size field. This will change the dimensions of the final GIF. Because the following video was shot on an iPhone 6 in portrait mode, I want to click the Portrait button under the Size field in the Properties tab. Once your video is loaded in, PicGIF Lite makes it simple to change a bunch of your video’s properties. Change the frame rate and test your video to see how much quality and smoothness you’ve lost. But remember, by lowering your frame rate you are dropping frames and therefore losing smoothness.
The lower your frame rate, the faster it will capture the video. Here you can change the frames per second (fps) that PicGIF Lite will capture. Once you’ve dropped your video in, the app will ask you Load it. We do not condone ripping content off YouTube but plenty of plugins do. PicGIF is super WYSIWYG, meaning “what you see is what you get.” Once you’ve downloaded and booted it up, add video or a group of photos.
#PICGIF MAC FOR FREE#
Download it for free at the Mac App store. A screencast GIF created with PicGIF Lite. Some examples of GIFs being used in journalism here. Then we’ll make a GIF from a series of photos. We’ll use the free application PicGIF Lite. We’ll start with making a GIF from a video.
#PICGIF MAC HOW TO#
This tutorial will show you how to make a GIF from a series or images, a video, or a screencast. For more on journalist’s adopting GIFs, read through Lena Groeger’s piece “ How to use loops to explain anything,” which appeared on Source and ProPublica’s Nerd Blog. Increasingly, GIFs are being used by journalists to illustrate concepts, make visuals more dynamic, and walk viewers through a process. (In recent news, GIF clearing house Giphy recently released a camera app to record from your phone.) Credit: Comedy Central. They’re more lightweight than video, take very little time to produce, and, if a picture is worth 1,000 words, then GIFs are arguably worth a whole lot more.
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