make a longish .mov in to a .gif??

[SashaGaga999]

Hey guys. One of my friends wants a video of her turned into a small .gif file, under 2000kb.

i thought it would be something i could easily do in iMovie but its not--anyone know how to do this/feel like doing it for me? feel free to PM me.

i'll send you the .mov, and you send me back the .gif??

it would be a big favor to me!

thanks!

-sasha

 

[fire_breeze]

Hey guys. One of my friends wants a video of her turned into a small .gif file, under 2000kb.

i thought it would be something i could easily do in iMovie but its not--anyone know how to do this/feel like doing it for me? feel free to PM me.

i'll send you the .mov, and you send me back the .gif??

it would be a big favor to me!

thanks!

-sasha

Depending on how long it is, you might not be able to do it. Most conversion requires you to upload static images and then it'll convert it into a .gif.
This and this discusses it at length. A YouTube vid

Otherwise, you can try a gif converter:
http://makeagif.com/video-to-gif/
http://imgflip.com/gifgenerator

Have fun

 

[NightL]

while I have not played with iMovie - cut and crop - cut and delete as much as possible - crop to the action area - reduce frame rate as much as possible - then a little more - then reduce the dimensions of the vid to as small as possible - then output to gif. You can only have max 256 colours with a gif so you are going to lose a lot of quality - try reducing the amount of colours below the 256 - again as much as possible.

A 2mb file will only give you a few seconds at best and of small dimensions

every pixel adds to the file size - a gif is just a string of individual pictures - the higher the frame rate - more pixels - the larger the dimensions - more pixels - more colours used - bigger the file size.