Best Screencast to GIF?

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Hey!

Performing my data analysis on a daily basis sometimes I can come up with a nice animation (e.g. people movings from place to place during the daytime). These animations are web-based, it means that they are not GIFs or videos but small "websites" that animate stuff using javascript

But I want to share this animation! I know how can I create a screencast on my Macbook using Quicktime. But I wonder - is there a tool that can convert a piece of my screen to a GIF?

It may work like screenshotting tool but capturing not static view but animated.

I hope that there is something great on Producthunt that can help me with my task. Can you please point me to it? 🤗

Dave Stewart · Accepted Answer

I swear by for https://recordit.co recording bits of my screen, though the frame rates are probably optimised for interaction rather than 30fps animations

Jun Gong · Answer

@jun_gong @okhlopkov that'd be cool!

also found this - https://gist.github.com/dergachev/4627207 not sure if it works tho

Jun Gong · Answer

Hey Daniil, I use Canva - just simply upload the video (in your case, .mov file) and then convert the video to a .gif. Curious to know if there are any other tools that can turn a screenshot/ video into a gif :)

Daniil Okhlopkov · Answer

@jun_gong Thanks for a reply! My perfect tool would be used like: 
1) Select screen region like you do while taking a screenshot
2) Press record and stop
3) voilà - you have a GIF

Best Screencast to GIF?

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