How to make an animated GIF from an MKV file

[Kontext51]

Guys this tutorial is pretty old, I'm thinking about making a better less confusing one soon.

[ZeroRiolu]

it works for me but the gifs play poorly on my ipod :(

[Mitwad]

Same problem as ShotaCat.

[123gokudo123]

Is there a way to reduce the size of the gif ???

[zaks88]

I'm receiving the same problem as ShotaCat, I've messed around in the setting menus but haven't found a solution.

[ShotaCat]

This doesn't work for me. I downloaded the various things you mentioned, opened the MKV using the directshow thing as you showed, but rather than the footage of the video, I just got lots and lots of grey. It'll play through (though I can't skip) but it's just grey; I don't think it's rendering it, basically.

[ShotaCat]

In fact, it just says "dub in progress" at the top of the screen while playing it. In your tutorial you were able to just skip through and play it immediately, for me it's just saying "dub in progress" and being grey.

[MetamoArk]

I just get errors, unknown format yyyy, and then it divides by zero and crashes.

[PrimeBrawler]

Hmm, changing the frames per second doesn' seem to affect the speed of the gif, what's wrong?

[PrimeBrawler]

So this program doesn't know hot to open AVI's??

[ChillinwithYoda]

One problem I have. Once I export it, the gif doesn't have a thumbnail.

And when I upload it on Tumblr, it's only a picture of the first screenshot.

[ChillinwithYoda]

Where is the music from? I could play it forever.

[bny84]

Thank you very much for this awesome "how to" video!

[Keksbunker]

do you know make animeted gif from mp4? :o

[NguyenCharles]

Doesn't seem to work with 10-bit/Hi10P videos. Can't get past the first step (Open in VDubMod).

[MegaVexler]

I seriously dont know what hes trying to do

[FunnyStoryActually]

I don't understand where the VirtualDubMod thing is. Downloaded from the link you provided, but how do I open it the application?

[Patrickovisk]

Amzing, worked perfectly in the first try.

[iluvmmd]

what anime is that from

[freakyweirdboyarchie]

I love this tutorial. Thanks a lot. I've successfully created a GIF. However after I posted it on my Tumblr, the GIF won't play the animation no matter how long I waited (for loading, I guess). I'm new to tumblr too so is there a problem with it or it's just my GIF being too heavy? (approx 5MB)

[mxp747]

@freakyweirdboyarchie Your gif can not be bigger than 500 kbs and wider than 500 pixels.

[beaverboykrunk]

How do I get mkv videos?

[sourceofprotein]

urgh. i can't do it. some rsponses to opening .mkv file in vdm : AVI file importer error (it's .mkv godamit) and another error - crashed An out-of-bounds memory access (access violation) occurred in module 'VirtualDubMod'...

...while running thread "Processing" (thread.cpp:120).

and it can do .avi?? you kidding me? can't even OPEN .avi.

please help!!!

[VersoEGTeam]

Only My Railgun, cool! :)

[tsubasa00kurenai]

Hi! I've been following this tutorial and it works for me. but I got a question, do you know how to add texts on them? :/

I've been trying to figure it out by myself but I just can't >_<

[kenny241100]

How do I open them in paint.?....The frame's.?.

[valterbda1]

do u know who to put the stroke on a gif? I do it but only appers on the first layer :S

[bluesuits]

Not only do you tell me how to do exactly what I need to do, you also use Railgun as an example

+1 to you.

[lilkraziieprincess]

Please excuse my lack of knowledge but when I uploaded the mkv anime episode file, it said that VirtualDub had crashed. However I tried another mkv file and it worked. I'm confused now and I am not sure of what to do. Otherwise, I was able to make gifs with the mkv file that worked thanks to your tutorial!

[RubicsTriangle]

Thank you very much for this tutorial.

First gifs I made were, like, 17mb (I resized ans cropped them, they were just pretty long). I looked through VirtualDub options and found Frame Rate Conversion in Video menu, selected "Process every other frame" and it magically made gifs smaller. Just like I wanted.

So, like... am I doing it right? And are there other ways to optimize gifs?

(Sorry for bad English, it's not my native language ._.)

[tyraelpl]

you are *THE MAN* :D !!

live a long happy life, banzai!

[sourneon]

omg I made my first gif! thank you so much!

[skdcao]

thanks!

[surrealfabetiquette]

I get the error "An out-of-bounds memory access (access violation) occurred in module 'VirtualDubMod'." (with mkv).

[Kontext51]

@surrealfabetiquette um that's odd. try running vdub as an administrator and see if that fixes it

[BloodyScreams]

@surrealfabetiquette

I have this same problem. running as admin didn't change anything...

[I2yuu]

gr8

[Mikenno]

This was a really awesome tutorial!! Thank you so much. The only problem is quality. I know GIFs aren't the best quality but it really seems to kill it in a gross way..

[alchemist109]

thanks! this saved me a shitload of time.

[jasonta]

I have a problem , after 0:43 it tells me "Couldn't locate decompresor for format 'YV12' [unknown]. VirtualDub requires a video for windows. [VFW] compatible codec to decompress video. DirectShow codecs, such as those used by Windows Media Player, are not suitable. Only 'Direct stream copy' is available for this video" Please help =(

[unicornorgan]

@jasonta I'm getting the same message too. :/

[tyraelpl]

@jasonta solution that worked for me: if you have ffdshow (and mos people have) run VFW config -> decoder tab -> codecs -> scroll all the way down to Raw video -> change disabled to YV12 (or try all supported).

*if it works for you vote up so others can a possible solution.

[Metadaxe]

@tyraelpl This solution did not work for me. However, after attempting to open the .mkv, it made a separate file that was the --directshow version of it. I could open this up with the unmodded VirtualDub no problem, and proceed normally from there. Instead of 'save image sequence', though, I have Export > Image Sequence. From there, everything proceeded normally.

[PrimeBrawler]

@tyraelpl Jeesus Christ it worked, thank you so much! I'll pray for your happiness tonight. Thank you so much, you're my wonderguard, I owe you my life. Thank you. Thanks. Arigato. Je t'aime. Thank you.

[tyraelpl]

@PrimeBrawler hehe, no problem :) happy to help mate!

[hglebre]

@jasonta i solved it by installing CCCP. Look at description for download.

[3rdInnocence]

Background Info:

I am an anime fan, and for a long while I wanted to know how to make animated GIFs from my favorite MKV-formatted shows. A quick google search will reveal that there is no *easy* way to go about it. Sure, there are some of pre-packaged "converters" out there, but they lack MKV support as well as customizability. Not to mention cost and spyware issues. The method I demonstrate has none of these problems, and the programs used are freeware.

Thats me :) ive been looking for this

[ZuroiA]

Soundtrack from Samurai Champloo? Nice one)

[PARTYGURLSAM]

danget!!! you need a windows?

[TotalCodeMonkey]

Woo! A Railgun fan!

Thanks for the tutorial, 1 Shugo Chara!! Doki! gif coming up

[Renshai0]

Thankyou so much! Really easy to follow.

[3ustacheTraista]

Great work. Thanks for the help!

[MisterBinx]

Trying to do this on OSX, I used virtualdubmod years ago when I had a PC. OSX doesn't have anything like this that I've found.

[Xenobly]

When I make my gifs with this method I cannot use it as my messenger profile picture. Says it's not valid image even though it supports gifs. All internet forums work fine. Any ideas?

[MisterBinx]

@Xenobly I'm not experienced with gif making yet, but it might have something to do with the frame rate of the gifs you're making, or possibly the dimensions.

[anonymousb37]

really well done video!! One thing that i thought was missing, was what if you wanted one frame to be a lot longer than all the others. Like individually timing each frame. Can u do that with your software?

[Kontext51]

@anonymousb37 maybe, im really not too sure. you'd have to do some experimenting.

[anonymousb37]

@Kontext51 I found a workaround by just copying and pasting the frames that i wanted longer, but the problem with that is that it makes the resulting file a lot bigger. And for an avatar, the file limit is 100 KB.  There has to be a better way.

[TotalCodeMonkey]

@anonymousb37 I suspect, before you load the tga files into vdub, you should muck around with the files. copy the fames you want longer and re-name the files so they're in sequence. Vdub seems to load them into a movie using their file names

[Kontext51]

@TotalCodeMonkey Yeah, that would be a good way to do it. ^^

[gregeriah]

it would be better if u talked but i guess this will do

[KIDxMIZER]

I fucking love you.

[Alexeon]

Very nice tutorial. I just made a quick GIF of the two girls kissing in ep 25 of Durarara!! and it turned out nice except that no matter how I change the framerate, the actual speed of the GIF remains the same. I wanted to speed it up a little...

[mungbutter]

Freakin awesome, thanks for this.

[AMM8D0DGER]

HEY REALLY GREAT TUTORIAL!! please be a member of my new site! hdgif.com

[TheArchangelPt]

I got "Couldn't locate decompressor for format YV12 (unknown)" even though i do have the latest cccp

[Kontext51]

thank you everyone for the nice comments. I'm just glad I could pass this knowledge on to somebody.

[anonforuz]

thank you very much, this was a big help

[saczers95]

Nice tutorial! I was looking for something like this!

[Chaosking123]

Thank you very much for this little tutorial, it was exactly what I just needed! :)

[reizend23]

lol railgun.

thanks for this btw~

[LMV209]

Freakin' awesome vid man!

Only problem now is how do we make the files smaller? a 12Mb file is a lil too big in my book. lol.

But yeah, great upload, thanks a lot!

[lonlonrancher22]

oh my god, you're a godsend. i've spent like the past two days occasionally trying to make sense of scripts and codec packs and other programs when all i ever had to do was that drop down trick in vdubmod to get it to open things. thanks SO much for making a clear idiot friendly guide on this.

[streetcornrsymphony]

If you can succeed in making a tutorial that helped ME (technologically incompetent) make a GIF, you can succeed in anything.

Thanks bunches! ^-^

[nerdycoolkid14]

hm, i used this tutorial and it worked for me so thanks.. but how come whenever i upload a GIF image to an image hosting site like tinypic or imageshack, the framerate of the GIF always shows up as slower than what i had changed it to in virtualdub

[kingvxx]

Your vid are great!

[kimpx]

thx :D easy to understand and i did well Xd thanx again

[Kontext51]

@kimpx np glad it helped you 

[Nightmaresplody]

Doesn't work. corona.ddl is missing.

[Kontext51]

@Nightmaresplody you just got the wrong version, try the link i have up there now, made it less confusing

[TheDarkThoughtHP]

i click this video cuz i see the 'biribiri' thumbnails lol jk xD

[s0t0b4k4]

points for using railgun.

[BambamCZ]

Got a little problem here:

I convert the image sequence into gif just fine but despite all I do the framerate remains 10fps eventhough I've set it to 29fps. Why's that?

[Meepmariokartwii]

@BambamCZ The same thing happened to me; the final GIF image played really slow on my computer. When I uploaded it to the internet however, it was the correct speed. o.o That's all that matters for me.

[MrJoshi69]

hey kontex... i did this and it works, but when i try to increase frame-rate it doesn't... what should i do?

[deadlysponge]

I can't get this to work. I downloaded the same version he has but any mkv I try to open just says AVI import filter error.

[Klyern]

whats the song? its awesome for tutorials.

[Kontext51]

@Klyern at 0:00 - nujabes & fat jon - ask, and at 3:10 - nujabes and fat jon - genome. they're both from the samurai champloo ost =)

[BlackHeavenSymphony]

What was that anime?

[Kontext51]

@BlackHeavenSymphony Toaru Kagaku no Railgun or just Railgun

[MrJoshi69]

@Kontext51 This is index

[OtakusAnimeFreak]

@Kontext51 Hey i need little help, what am i do with MP4 video? and how do you download anime video to VitrualdubMod? i was using download youtube from keepvid.com but i dont understand how.

[Eternalty128]

Finally found a simple understandable method to make those gifs. Thanks for the tutorial, it really helped.

[rumesto]

Thank you, that helped me alot!

[Kontext51]

@Falcation VirtualDubMod.exe and all its affiliated files need to be in the same directory that virtualdub is installed to.

[cooleycole93]

Still get an error. I extracted both to a folder on the Desktop called VirtualDib and I get that error.

[deathclock11]

@cooleycole93 From what I've tried and done, it's the version of VirtualDubMod that was the problem.

Download the exact version Kontex uses: the 1.5.10.2 version, not the latest one.

[deathclock11]

Sight mistype there. You want the"VirtualDubMod_1_5_10_2_All­_inclusive.zip"

[Falcation]

VirtualDubMod doesn't work, after extracting i click on the execute file and says it couldn't locate corona.dll

Can you help me out?

[Leongfun]

Nice tutorial,i was looking for it ! thx !

[xXcEsArXx23]

Perfect!!! great video :) just what i wanted to learn. Your the best.

[Crackykun]

Great tutorial using the programs you should use for this instead of all the crap shareware gif/image programs out there. 5/5