This section just covers, briefly, what to do when you do want to add something like text to your image. If you just want to make a GIF of the clip, with no alterations, you don’t really need to do anything here. These layers will be used to recreate the video as an animation when you export to a GIF. GIMP will create a new project and place each of your frame images as its own layer. When you have them all, confirm with the “Open” button. You can use Ctrl + Click or Shift + Click to select more at the same time. Click on “File,” then “Open as Layers.” Browse to the folder where you directed the frames to output from FFMPEG. This part is actually very simple, but you can add to it as much as you want. You’re finally ready to open GIMP and start putting together your GIF. It might take a few minutes, but FFMPEG will break your file down to its frames at a rate of 15 frames-per-second, and place the resulting images in the “frames” folder that you created.

Then, press the “Record” button again to stop it.

Allow the video to play to where you want your clip to end. Once you’re where you want to begin, click the big red circle button in the new advanced controls to begin recording. Place the slider right were you want it to begin recording. Use the slider to seek through the video, and locate the start point of your clip. Open the video that you want to extract your clip from. Check the box next to “Advanced Controls.” The controls will appear at the bottom of the VLC window above the normal VLC controls. On the main menu across the top of VLC, click on “View.” A drop-down will open to reveal the available options. The first step here is to enable the recording controls. VLC has built-in recording capabilities that you can harness to create your clip from an existing video. VLC has a couple of ways to cut a video down, but this one is the most direct. Before you can actually get to work making the GIF, you’re going to need to cut down your video file to just the size you need for the GIF. You definitely don’t want to make a GIF out of a full-length video. Sudo pacman -S vlc gimp ffmpeg Create a Clip with VLC

Make a gif from video