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Convert a Live View video into an animated GIF

Convert a Live View video into an animated GIF - Apple Photos Tutorial

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Convert a Live View video into an animated GIF

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- [Instructor] When you capture in Live View, you have some interesting possibilities. I'm going to save this as a GIF. I'm going to save this little bit of video. I was just taking a still photo with my iPhone, but since I had Live View on, I captured a little bit of video. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go down here to my options. I'm in the Edit mode in Photos for Mac OS. Because it's a Live View image, I have these options, and I'm going to choose Loop right here. Okay, so I have this little loop going. I'm going to save it as a loop right now, so I'm just going to go over here and click Done. And now, what I'm going to do is go up here to Export, and I'm going to export it as a GIF right there. This shows up because it's a little Live View video, and I have this option. So let's export it as a GIF, and we'll just send it to the Desktop. There we go. Now let's go ahead and minimize Photos. There's our GIF…

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