![]() ![]() Also, it is nice to add a long final frame delay to the end to add a pause between loops. I wouldn’t recommend more than a single GIF per screen full of text. I found that a bit of quick trial-and-error here works great to narrow in on the desired result. You may need to tweak the GIF Properties to get the color/size/speed you want. Once you have the result setup just how you want click Create GIF.GIF Brewery lets you adjust the start and end point to match your desired timeline.Don’t worry about any stray movements or clicks at the beginning or end of the clip, these are easily removed later. Perform the action you want to demonstrate.When prompted select the rectangle of the screen you want to record.Click the Red record button on the middle of the resulting panel to begin recording.Open QuickTime and select File > New Screen Recording.Change the looping direction, such as normal playback, reverse, or even palindrome Change the number of loops for your GIF. Create GIFs with your desired FPS or manually set the frame count and frame delay. Add captions or overlay images to the GIF. You may also want to adjust the mouse cursor size in Accessibility > Display to make it easier to see. Convert clips from your videos into small GIF files. Attempt to simply the section of the screen you want to record as much as possible. If you are recording iOS sessions I can also recommend using FakeFinger for creating a virtual ‘finger’ on the screen rather than a mouse pointer. The second is a cheap app from the Mac App Store, GIF Brewery. Keep only one subtitle if you only need a single, static caption, or add more and time them accordingly if you want to create a subtitle sequence. You’ll need two applications to make this process work. In order to add a caption to a GIF, open the Text menu from the left side of the screen and click on Add subtitle. I thought it might be helpful to walk through the workflow I’ve come up with to do this (of course making slightly excessive use of GIFs) It isn’t perfect but I’ve found it to work pretty well. They also take far less time to create than a polished video. Their short, looping nature also make it really easy to immediately get the gist of what the video is trying to communicate. Any modern browser can display them inline. Firstly, they don’t require fancy hosting or embed codes to work. However, I find that in many cases the result of a simple focused GIF is far better than a video. You could accomplish many of the goals of the way I use GIFs with inline videos or links to Youtube/Vimeo. Also, a single GIF can save me having to write dozens of boring paragraphs of explanation. Textual descriptions are helpful but fail to fully encapsulate the behavior. I find there is something powerful about being able to demonstrate a new application feature visually. For some recent work I’ve been doing for Feed Wrangler I need to create an inline animated GIFs for communicating the new capabilities. ![]()
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