Imgur Releases A Fast Video-To-GIF Converter

Here’s an embarrassing secret: Before today, I’d never made a GIF.

I mean, obviously I’ve seen them, laughed when they’ve been passed along so that (and made a note so that I could send them along myself later). I’ve even searched for them once or twice on Giphy. But deep down, I knew I was a fraud, someone who feared the day when one of my editors would say, “Hey, can you whip up a funny GIF about this?” and I’d have to admit that I didn’t really have any idea what I was doing.

That’s why I breathed a sigh of relief today, when Imgur launched Video to GIF — as the name implies, it allows you to easily convert online videos into GIFs. In fact, the popular image-sharing service describes this as “the easiest and fastest way to make awesome GIFs from videos.”

Since I haven’t actually created a GIF before, I don’t actually know whether this is the easiest and fastest (YouTube has also been rolling out its own built-in GIF creator), but it is pretty friendly to neophytes like me. You just enter a video URL, select the portion of the video that you want to convert, add some text, and voila, you’ve got a GIF a few seconds later.

Even I managed to make a GIF — I’ll admit I had a brief moment of panic when I got confused by the various markers showing the start, stop, and current play points in the video, but eventually I got over the hump. GIFs, I will never fear you again.

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