From the course: Motion Graphics Loops: 1 Photoshop Techniques

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Importing video clips for an animated GIF (yule log)

Importing video clips for an animated GIF (yule log)

From the course: Motion Graphics Loops: 1 Photoshop Techniques

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Importing video clips for an animated GIF (yule log)

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- [Voiceover] So let's say you wanna convert a little bit of video of looping video to a GIF. It can be as easy as opening the video file in Photoshop, and just adjusting it a touch. From the Start screen, I'm gonna Command + O to open a new file. I'm going to make sure I am in my exercise files, Chapter Four, and I'm gonna select the YuleLog.mov. I'll go ahead and hit Open, it will render the video format for Photoshop, and then I can preview it in my Timeline. There we go, some looping, paper, animated fire. If for some reason your Timeline isn't popping up, just make sure that you have the Motion view set in the top right. Now, this is fast and simple. We have a video layer without much hassle. But the video layers can be just a little bit restricting. First, let's look at this loop. It's far from perfect. We have a bit of a jarring jump when it hits its loop point at the end. Just take a look at those flames in the background. It's not perfectly continuous. What I'd like to do is…

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