fuckyeahcolourings:

I have a mac, so I don’t know if this is different for other people, but basically all I do is I downloaded a program called “any video converter” x It actually works wonders. All you have to do is install it, then download your video. Usually it opens up in the program but if it doesn’t, all you have to do is go to the file (usually in your downloads), left click and find “open in”. After that, click on the “any video converter” icon. It should open. Then set it to convert to mp4.

This is the easiest format to work with in photoshop. You don’t have to convert your videos if you download all mp4 files but sometimes it’s helpful to have the video converter incase you accidentally download an avi or something which gets messy with photoshop.

You do NOT need to buy anything for this. If it prompts you to buy, just say no. (: This is a huge help for me, so I hope it helps you too.

hi again, i’m making another gif tutorial (for macs) because the first one i made was confusing as hell so let’s hope this one goes a little bit better

necessities: photoshop (i’m using cs6 but really it should probably work for any version of photoshop since they’re all very similar), vlcplayer, the video you want to gif

for this tutorial i’m using a 720p .mkv video, vlc opens basically any video format but i’ll be using this one,pro-tip: 720p and 1080p = best quality videos = best quality gifs

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I just found out how to do this so hopefully it works for you guys too! I use a mac but this should work on windows too!

1) Firstly, open up VLC Player, and then open up your video.

2) Once your video is open go to File > Streaming/Exporting Wizard

3) Select Transcode/Save to file and press next

4) Make sure you select your video from ‘existing’ or load it from ‘Select a stream’ once you’ve done that click next

5) I usually ignore this part and just click next but if you want to tweak it a bit then select the options you want.

6) After this select the format you want, I would use mp4 or .mov for photoshop, but select which one is appropriate for you and hit next.

7) Once you’ve chosen where to save your video, make sure the Local playback box is ticked and press next.

8) This shows you all of the options you’ve selected etc so just press finish.

9) now this is sort of the tricky part to explain, whatever bit is currently being played or ‘streamed’ will be converted into the format you selected, whether it is the whole clip, or just section, if you want just a section make sure you skip to that section and let it play over the part that you want converted.

10) Once you’ve selected all the bits you want, quit VLC Player and open up your video in the finder and you’re done! It should be in mp4/whatever format you’ve selected and it should have converted the section that you wanted.

This also converts .avi to mp4/mov for gif making in photoshop and the quality isn’t lost! If you have any questions message me!