Animated GIFs with MPEG Streamclip and GIMP

[youtube width=”580″ height=”470″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dyEgQXLED0[/youtube]

DS106 has a great screen-cap tutorial to teach you how to make animated GIFs with the free applcations MPEG Streamclip and GIMP, but I thought I’d do a quick video as well. I’ve done a number of GIFs using Quicktime, Photoshop, and Final Cut Pro but these tools are not free! I’m going to show some of my tricks in a later post, such as how I made The Robin Hood Bunch.

Here’s the GIF from the tutorial – And Swing and Spit, And Swing and Spit…


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6 responses to “Animated GIFs with MPEG Streamclip and GIMP”

  1. […] you TA Smith for this animated gif tutorial.  It finally got me to my goal of creating an animated gif – the right way. I wasn’t […]

  2. […] 5. Also get your animated GIF ideas going. You can follow Jim’s tutorial here and get one up right away, or be ready with an idea and a clip for next Monday. And here’s my video tutorial as well. […]

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    Shannon

    Great tutorial !! helped a lot now i gotta see if i can be as creative.

  5. […] Candy. From there, it should have been an easy process of following Michael Branson Smith’s useful tutorial for making animated GIFs with the free applications MPEG Stream Clip and the […]

  6. […] Because this is proprietary (technically you have to pay a company to use the format) many people have stopped using it and use PNG instead. You don’t need to use it, but you should know about it and some people do because older browsers sometimes have trouble with PNG files (especially the transparency). Nowadays not many people use those browsers anymore. The other reason people use GIF files is to create animated gifs. Some links for those if you’re intersted because we won’t cover them in class: * http://ds106.us/handbook/tools/animated-gifs-from-video-photoshop/ * http://ds106.us/handbook/tools/creating-animated-gifs-open-source-software/ * http://cogdogblog.com/2011/10/19/animated-gifs-your-photos/ * http://www.michaelbransonsmith.net/blog/2011/09/22/animated-gifs-with-mpeg-streamclip-and-gimp/ […]