Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Making GIFs for Tumblr



I follow several sports teams and leagues on Tumblr just to see how they are using the site.  I've noticed that MLB and a lot of baseball teams like to use funny GIFs to catch attention.  I'm trying my hand at that myself this year.

There are several free video to GIF sites that I looked at.  At first, I was to export directly from my video editing software (Sony Vegas) to a GIF, but that didn't work.  Then I realized a lot of GIFs are made from videos that are already online, so I tried a YouTube to GIF creator, GIFSoup.  That seems to work much better.  The proof will be the increase (or lack thereof) of followers this year.  We'll see...


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