There are a few steps one must take:
1. Turning a Youtube video into a video file. Simply post the link on this website:
http://www.mediaconverter.org/
There, you choose what kind of video file you want it to become.
2. Trimming the video. Most Youtube videos are much too long to convert into an animated GIF, so you would have to cut it short by using a program such as Windows Movie Maker or Sony Vegas. The average animated GIF is about 5 seconds long, however, it can be longer than that.
3. Then the final step, which is converting that trimmed section into a GIF. There are many programs out there that can do this for you simply, unfortunately, they are not free. But I stumbled across a few that were:
http://www.gifninja.com/ConvertVideoToGif.aspx
http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php
These are online programs. You simply input the video file into where ever it tells you and there you have it.
You can always Google and find more. There are plenty of them out there that are free and functional, you just would have to find it like I have. lol
1. Turning a Youtube video into a video file. Simply post the link on this website:
http://www.mediaconverter.org/
There, you choose what kind of video file you want it to become.
2. Trimming the video. Most Youtube videos are much too long to convert into an animated GIF, so you would have to cut it short by using a program such as Windows Movie Maker or Sony Vegas. The average animated GIF is about 5 seconds long, however, it can be longer than that.
3. Then the final step, which is converting that trimmed section into a GIF. There are many programs out there that can do this for you simply, unfortunately, they are not free. But I stumbled across a few that were:
http://www.gifninja.com/ConvertVideoToGif.aspx
http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php
These are online programs. You simply input the video file into where ever it tells you and there you have it.
You can always Google and find more. There are plenty of them out there that are free and functional, you just would have to find it like I have. lol