 Today, we are going to be talking about generating animated GIFs or GIFs. How do you say it? I really don't care. I always said GIF, and then I heard that the creator of GIFs calls it GIFs, so I kind of feel like I should call it GIFs, since that's what he calls it, whatever you want to call it, GIF files, animated ones. And how do you create them on your phone? How do you create them on your phone? And so what I'm saying is I take a video clip with my kids, I want to take a few seconds of that, and make an animated loop that I can then share with people. Well, the way I did it for a while was first using GIFy, GIFy.com. I'm sure that's G-I-P-H-Y.com, and I'm sure many of you have probably seen GIFs from this website, or GIFs from this website. So is it GIFy? Is that the name of the site or is it GIFy? I guess I would have to ask the creators of this website. Anywhere, they make it very easy. You go there, they have a nice mobile interface. You click plus, of course they're probably going to want you to install your app, which why would you do that? You can take an Android device, you get options for take a photo or video or upload from your camera roll. On Android device, it doesn't matter. Both those buttons do the same thing. You click that and it asks whether you want to open your application, your camera application, camcorder application, or your files. I usually have the video recorded. I click files, I choose it. Before that though, I'll usually go in to whatever video editing application I have on my phone, and I usually trim it down there just to save size because you're going to be uploading it to this website. But once you upload it, they do give you an option to trim on both ends of the video. And then it also gives you options for overlaying text and adding effects and sticker will add made stickers. And that's the nice thing about this website is that sort of thing. But one of the big drawbacks is you're uploading to a website, which of course a lot of people don't want to do. You don't want, maybe you don't want to share it with them. And of course, there's the whole, what's my internet connection like? And I had time, most times that worked great for me, but if I was somewhere with a slow internet connection, sometimes it would take forever to upload a 10-second video. Usually I try to trim down to two or three seconds, but there's that. Also, I like seamless loops. I like when my videos, there were little animated gifs or gifs, loop and they look at least close to seamless, which I did a lot with this. I would hold the camera very steady. When I would trim it in my video editor, I would hit stabilize, which would help sometimes. And I'll try to do that to have the person or whoever do something that was somewhat of a loop, like waving and then I try to cut it. So it starts here and ends here or yeah, goes like that and then stops. So that was a bit of an issue. Another website doesn't look as nice. The interface isn't as nice. I know you can't really see it here is easygif or gif.com. That's easygif.com. It's another website where you can upload again. It's not as nice looking as Giffy, but you can upload a video clip. You can also upload an animated GIF and convert it to, I'm just going to call them GIFs for the rest of the video, make GIFs and convert them to MP4. Although it's not as nice and it doesn't have the fun little stickers and animations you can put over your animations. It does give you a lot of nice features as far as you can crop the image. You can change the frame rate, how it's compressed to try to optimize it. It also has the whole and it does have effects. It has a lot of things on here. You can resize it. That looks like there is an ad text, but I bet it's not as fancy as the Giffy website. One of the things I liked about this was it had a forward and back or reverse option. So I could make an animated GIF of someone going, and then I just click forward and reverse and it would, or actually I could make a video of someone going, and then you like the sound effects. And then I would reverse it. So it would be, of course, without the sound once it's a GIF. And so the video would just be them doing this. And it made it seamless. And sometimes that works, depends on how you film it. You try to think about it while you're filming it, how you're going to loop this. But it's me, I just love a nice animated GIF that seamlessly loops. So that's one of the things I like about it. But the problem with this and the problem with Giffy both are that you have to upload to a website, which has the drawback of internet speeds, but also the drawback of, what if I don't want to upload my videos and animate GIFs to these websites. The easy GIF, I don't think they have a thing where you can search through it. That doesn't mean they're not storing it. I haven't read through their rights and regulations and stuff on their site. Giffy, when you're using the mobile webpage, you get to the very end, they give you the animate GIF and then there's a upload to Giffy, which it's already uploaded, it's already on their server. But it's like a last button that like posts it. So I'm assuming if you don't click that, because you can download it without clicking that, that it's not posting it to their site, but still on their servers. And a lot of people would have problems with that, but I completely understand that. So what is another option? Something that's quicker. I don't have to upload. I can just quickly issue a command and get it. That's what we're gonna talk about in the next video. So I hope you're enjoying this series on surviving Android. And don't worry if you're looking for Shell Script tutorials, we're gonna have one in the next video on an Android device. 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