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[video transcription] so, this is avidemux, this is what i use to gather my caps for my gifs. i don’t know any other method, all i’ve ever used is the capping method and i find it really, really easy and simple, and it doesn’t, like, overwhelm your photoshop. so, this is what you get when you first open it up.

now, i wanna come over here to “output format” and i want to change this (mkv muxer) to the one right below it (mpeg ts muxer (ff)) and then for configure, we’re gonna open that and unclick that (vbr muxing), change this (mux rate) to 15.

i don’t really know what it does, like, exactly; i know i messed with it when i first got it a couple years ago and it’s just worked really well with my gifs . so that’s what i keep using and that’s what i’m gonna recommend. i don’t touch anything else, it’s just - i never needed to .

up here (top left) we’re going to “open video”. i have a movie here, we’re just going to click it to open it. now we have this scrollbar down here (bottom) that can, like, move really fast through scenes if you have something, like, specific that you know you wanna gif.

or you can use the up arrow. and it kinda jumps frames and stuff, and then the back arrow, obviously, it jumps the same amount of frames (backwards). or if you want something very specific, you can use the right arrow, and it will change, like, 1 by 1 by 1. same with if you go left, it goes backwards.

so what i am going to do is just start here and in order to do that, here’s this little “a” button right here (bottom, below the scrollbar). we’re going to set that. and over here (bottom right) you see that it’s started the capping at this (time) marker.

[my dog barks in background] sorry for my dog, she’s yelling in the back.

so you can either use your keys to move forward or you can just hit the space bar and let it play. [i hit the space bar] and i’m just gonna stop it right there [hit the space bar again].

to get the end of the cap, we’re just gonna press “b” (right next to “a” below scrollbar) and you can see over here (bottom right) that it’s stopped it at this time stamp, too.

what i would recommend is from the start to the end (of the cap), at least 2 seconds. sometimes i do 1, or 1 and a half, depending if it’s like a scene that i really wanna gif or something, but usually 2 seconds difference is good.

and so now that we have this, we’re gonna come up here (top left, besides the “open video”) to the “save video”. sometimes if i’m doing a lot of caps, i’ll just put a number on the end of the title or i’ll just put a number as the “save as”. so it’s going to save as a “.ts file”, make sure it’s on that.

and then you just save it, and that’s it! easy peasy. that’s how i get all of my caps. and then i’ll make another video showing you the photoshop and how to, like, upload them and all the fun stuff. so, yay. [video ends]

[video transcription] ok, this is my photoshop when i open it. i suggest having either a psd here, or a blank document that you can save psds as you’re working on them. so that’s why i have this one.

so first we’re going to go up to file, > import, > video frames to layers. now this is where all of your caps are going to be, so you just choose 1 by 1, and open.

now, if you screen recorded it (the video) yourself, you’re going to hit “limit to every [2] frames” over here (left), but we did not do that so we’re just going to hit “from beginning to end”. and make sure the “make frame animation” is on there, and hit “ok”.

now, this is where we get to crop and resize. i’m pretty sure you guys know how to do that. so, up here we have our crop (dimensions) so we’re just going to do this really quick, kinda make her more centered. nice, nice. we’re gonna go up to image, > image size. and put our dimensions in.

alright, and now we’re going to shift+click on these (timeline frames), and we’re going to go over to the right and shift+click on all of these. (basically make sure all your frames are highlighted).

so, we go down to the bottom left and we hit the “convert to video timeline”, we go up to filter, > convert for smart filters. now over here (top right) is where you’re going to have your sharpening action and you’re just going to make sure that it’s highlighted so we can press play. and it’s gonna do everything that it needs to do.

now that i have all my frames done, now we can color correct and do the time, uh, speed. [laughs] okay, god, i’ve just woke up.

so we’re gonna go to “other”, i like to do “0.05” for things that are above, like, 60 frames. and there are times where photoshop gives you this random blank frame. i just delete it. it happens every so often, depending on, like, the movie and stuff.

so, now we have this and we’re going to color correct. the first thing i do is to go “levels” (adjustments, > levels) and i’m going to lighten it, and then darken it a little bit more.

we’re gonna go to “brightness” (adjustments, > brightness/contrast), brighten that up and then add the contrast.

now we’re gonna hit the gif (folder) again because we’re actually gonna add the color and we want to make sure it’s under the lighting.

(adjustments, > color balance) color balance, so you kinda just see what color she has, like that’s a little bit of green and then we can, like, do a little bit of pink. it’s basically just the opposite of whatever color you see.

and i could honestly do this for like, [laughs], for like 3 hours, but i’m not going to! so we’re just going to do that for now. i like to put these (my lighting/coloring) in a folder, so you can kinda like see the before and after.

there’s a little folder button down here (bottom right) and yeah. and then we can play it for a second. looks good. we’re gonna go up to file, > export, > save for web (legacy).

i would pause this right now or screen shot it; this is all of my gif presets. if you wanna look at what your gif looks like before you save it, you can hit preview (bottom left) and it will pop up in a browser. we’re just gonna save this (click save - bottom right).

i like to- you can put names on it, but i like to just save it. it’ll say “untitled-1” and the next will be “untitled-2”, it’s really easy.

save it and that’s it! and you can exit out of your gif and go on and make the next one. [video end]