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Imgur's Video to GIF — Make a GIF from hundreds of video sites
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@rrhoover We think Imgur's Video to GIF is the easiest GIF maker on the web with the highest quality output. Happy to answer any q's!
@kylebrussell @ajs @rrhoover Ayy thanks for GifYouTube shoutout. Lots of stuff in the GIFosphere, and excited to be involved in GIF tech being pushed out there.
>1,200,000 gifs made (currently a gif every 15s) on GifYouTube, and a lot more tech to come. Excited to see what the field is working on.
@gerstenzang - awesome stuff. Definitely feel free to reach back out. I know you tweeted at me a few months ago but I think we never ended up connecting. Much love and give a hug to the imgur team!
+1 to @rrhoover comment - great to see more tools arise. Funny to think many of us have seen or shared hundreds if not thousands of GIFs in browsing the web but chances are we've created little to none.
Mentioned this here https://twitter.com/ryandawidjan... but seems to me this cements Imgur's plan to continue to try and be a destination site / community rather than a great (fast, mobile) hosting site. Giphy has been doing interesting business deals with brands but on a consumer side, in my mind, has been scene as fun discovery and search experience rather than a utility to upload a file. Imgur CEO Alan talked with @jason about this as well explaining that it has quite a strong community that live in the comments and among trending pieces...guess they want to make those folks content creators too!
Nice work @gerstenzang
GIF apps seem to be increasingly popular (at least a lot of people are building them). Why now, @mrgrim151?
Yep, exactly. For how democratic GIF-consumption is, it's largely been a small group of people making GIFs. We're super excited to see what the Imgur community and the wider web will do with this– we're expecting a whole new generation of web culture creators
As someone who had made a decent number of gifs I can tell you the current tools suck. Photoshop is *really* complicated and GifBrewery is Mac-only and $5. Both require that you download the videos beforehand. YouTube-to-Gif makes this process much simpler because it all happens with the drag of a slider and a click. For whatever reason in the last year a bunch of people have made these (gifffr, gifYouTube, and now YouTube).
Overall this works pretty well, pop in the url, adjust the slider, click-n-go. Begin able to caption helps as well
One thing I did notice is that because it makes the gifs in full 1280x720 resolution the file size ends up being huge so imgur only makes the .gifv version. You've gotta make a pretty short video for the actual gif file to be available. All that being said....
I'm so glad PH likes this! We think it's a big step forward for content creation and self expression on the Internet. So stoked to see what people do with it.
@jwgur Well done. Are you using youtube-dl in the back to support that many websites ?
@romaincointepas Yes that is correct. We chose youtube-dl because of its fantastic support in the community (over 8,00 stars!) and good breadth.
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