I asked a few people about their GIF-making process and I did a little researching. Learn how to make GIFs:
With KM Player, I got a lot of errors trying to screencap and I followed a lot of trouble-shooting advice, but eventually what worked for me was replacing a file in the installed program. I can’t tell you what to do if you have this issue with Mac because I use Windows. Here is what I did:
- Go ahead and install KMPlayer. See if it works with the screencapping. If it doesn’t, then continue reading these steps.
- You have to download the Mpeg2DecFilter found here (after you have installed KMPlayer)
- Extract the file, it should end in a file extension “.ax”
- Copy that file. (Select it and hit CTRL+C or right click and select “Copy” to copy it.)
- Then go to the icon that accesses your KMPlayer. For example, I go to the desktop where the KMPlayer’s launch icon is.
- Right click it the icon, not left-click. You should see a drop down of options for the icon.
- Find the option “Open file location” and click it.
- You should see the Windows Explorer window pop up with the whole KMPlayer stuff, a bunch of dll files and other things. All you have to do is hit CTRL+V at the same time (or just right click and select “paste”) and when it asks whether to replace, don’t replace, or keep both files, you need to select “Copy and Replace”
- Now close out of your KMPlayer and re-launch it. It should work. Although I had to restart my computer so I could properly relaunch the program.
And lokiofasgard’s process:
So I found a video that was already clear and stuff. And then Photoshop only takes so many formats, so I use Xilisoft Video Converter in order to convert the video into .mov format. The nice thing about that video converter is that it also changes the size of the video, and makes it more HD.
Then in Photoshop, I go to File —> Import —> Video Frames to Layers, and you can pick out which bits of the scene you want and such. Then it’s imported, you sharpen, and it’s all done~
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