How to Convert YouTube Videos to GIF Animation

Written By Nohara Binti Parahita Niya on Sunday, August 24, 2014 | 1:00 AM

How to Convert YouTube Videos to GIF Animation - If you are a new user on internet forums, you may be curious to see How Your colleagues in a thread can keep post animated GIF from a variety of television shows, movies, or video clip you've ever watched on YouTube. If you're curious and want to enliven the posting, now there's an easy way to create an animated GIF from clip on YouTube, directly from the web browser that you are using.

How to Convert YouTube Videos to GIF Animation

You can visit his website Gifyoutube.com to, and entering the URL of the video you want to use as an animated GIF. After that, you will be taken to a new page where you are asked to determine the moment of beginning and duration of the animated GIF you will use.

All you have to do is find a video with a clip you'd like to make a GIF of, put "gif" into the URL right before YouTube and you'll be taken to a new page which lets you decide the start time and the duration of the GIF. An easier way is to go to the URL of the YouTube video clip that you want, and add the word ' gif ' in front of the URL for the Youtube video. (such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkt29K4Gf1o changed to http://www.gifyoutube.com/watch?v=Mkt29K4Gf1o). And here's the result.

It should be noted that this service is not an official extension for YouTube, so it's not impossible if Google shut it down in the future. But considering it's been circulating for many YouTube downloader application which still operate smoothly, so this service is apparently still be safe in the near future. Gifyoutube also are still in the early stages of development, so you may need to experiment a few times before you can make an animated GIF to your liking. Good luck!