YouTube has the opportunity to make GIFs from video

Movie can be cut into animated images

YouTube is slowly rolling out the ability to export the video in the format of animated GIF-images. Official statement has not yet been, the first novelty said Andy Baio.



So far, the feature is not available everywhere. For example, on the GIF, you can crush any video channel PBS Idea Channel (at least this ). Just click on the Share / Share button to see the GIF sub-item.



Creating gifs is easy: you just need to select starting and ending points to get an animated picture at the output. There is an opportunity to place labels, you can put the text above and the text below.



The function works very quickly, everything happens right on the YouTube servers.

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Previously, creating gifs from videos on YouTube had to be done with the help of third-party services. If the video hosting decides to roll out the function for all publications, then dozens of such resources will lose their attendance. You can also install special programs that record a specific area of ​​the screen. Demand for them, too, may fall.



There was no official announcement yet, but if YouTube introduces such a function, we can expect a rapid growth in the number of GIFs on the Internet.



GIF is not the best solution for storing animations. There are even services that convert GIFs to the WebM format available for display by all major browsers. At the same time, the file size is reduced several times, and the quality does not change. Perhaps the new feature was late for a couple of years.