We click on ' Archive'→' Open as layers'. It will place the resulting images in the folder of ' frames'that we created before.Īt this point, we can already open GIMP and start mounting the GIF. FFMPEG will divide the file into frames at a rate of 15 frames per second. In that window, type something like the following to use FFMPEG and split the clip:įfmpeg -i vlc-record-201X-XX-XX-tu-archivo.mp4 -r 15 frames/image-%3d.png Now, open a terminal window in that directory that stores the video clip. Create a new folder called ' frames' in the same directory. Open the file browser and find the location where the video clip is located. That's where it comes in FFMPEG, we will use it to divide our clip into frames. GIMP does not work directly with video files. Sometimes, we will also find it in the user's home.

In Ubuntu, the video should be saved in the folder ' ~ / Videos'. When what interests you is recorded, press the 'button again Record'to stop it. Once you have located the starting point, do click on the big red circle in the advanced controls to start recording. Open the video you are interested in and use the slider to find the one start point for clip recording. These controls will appear at the bottom of the VLC window, above the normal VLC controls. In the drop-down menu we are going to check the box that appears next to ' Advanced controls'. To do this, in the main menu located at the top of VLC, we click on ' See'. We will start by enabling these controls.

VLC has built-in recording capabilities that we can use to create our clip from an existing long video. We will use the most direct in this example.

In VLC we will find a couple of ways to cut a video. For this reason, to start creating the GIF, we will have to reduce our video file to the size we want for the GIF. If you don't have them installed yet, you just have to open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and type: sudo apt install vlc gimp ffmpeg Create a clip with VLCĪnimated gifs are usually not long-lived. We will be able to install them through our package manager. All are easy to install on our Ubuntu system.

1 Create animated gifs with GIMP, FFMPEG and VLCĬreate animated gifs with GIMP, FFMPEG and VLC Install GIMP, FFMPEG and VLCįirst of all we will need install in our system VLC, FFMPEG and GIMP.

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