#gif making problems

[mulligxns]

anna kendrick in ‘the last five years’

CLICK THE LINK IN THE SOURCE to be taken to 266 gifs of anna kendrick in the 2014 movie 'the last five years’

tw: kissing, nsfw scenes, alcohol, emotional distress

If you are using these gifs, please adhere to the following rules:

DO NOT edit them in any way - this includes cropping them into gross gif icons, putting a new psd over them, changing the colouring in any way

You CAN use them for crackships - but you MUST credit me @mulligxns and you must not use my gifs in crackships with minors ( and if you don’t know why that’s gross then don’t use my gifs full stop )

DO NOT use them in gif hunts - you think we don’t know but believe me, we do

DO NOT use them in smut rps or celebrity rps

REBLOG this original post, not just like - it helps the content reach a wider audience

I have a Ko-Fi. If you use my gifs, it would be lovely if you could contribute - ko-fi.com/carolinebinglxy

[liyazaki]

What's tumblr doing, that's so frustrating :( take your time, I hope you're not too upset. Bad moment but would you consider making an asuka & sakuma manga comp?

thanks, Nonnie- I'm not really upset; just discouraged.

creators shouldn't have to jump through so many hoops just to share their creations, and I'm hoping these asinine, it's-not-broke-so-let's-fix-it changes Tumblr's making doesn't keep others- especially beginners- from making their edits & expressing themselves creatively. here's the post Nonnie's referring to if anyone's curious.

I could be completely spacing here (10 hours of sleep in 48 hours FTW), but as far as I can remember, there aren't scenes with Asuka and Sakuma in the manga, period.

Asuka just pops in for comedic moments here and there, and I don't remember Sakuma being in the manga at all. kudos to the show writers for giving Asuka more depth than the manga ever did.

edit: they had one teensy phone interaction in the manga & that appears to be it (thanks, Nonnie!)

[elialys]

i have this issue where my next "failed proposal" gifset is 20 gifs long, and im not even exaggerating. it's 20 gifs long

[hotasfahrenheit]

me every time i tell a gif with a lot of frames to encode and i'm watching the progress meter tick by waiting to see if it's under 10mb or not

[xo-tough-love-xo]

Rarely any content on here in my opinion but the same on trend thing or same gif scene from movie done over and over

[zekelandon]

gif makers do you prefer doing video frames to layers or taking screencaps??

i used to love mpv player to take screencaps but lately my gifsets look weird and not smooth. Video frames to layers is great and my gifs looks great but the file sizes are too big.

I used to use Mplayer OSX Extended for screencapping but some of my gifs looked a little weird and choppy so im gonna retry using it.

Elmedia player takes great screencaps and makes my gifs look so smooth but it takes FOREVER for the screencaps to load and the gif sizes are too big.

So if anyone knows of a good screencapping program for mac let me know

[zekelandon]

I'm finding that MPV isnt working out for me anymore bc I cant download the right version that doesnt have the glitch where it doesnt duplicate frames. My Mac wont let me download the right version of MPV. I tried using Mplayer OSX before I switched to MPV and rn I'm looking at IINA or ElMedia as two possible screencapping options but I want to know if any other gifmakers use those programs

[liyazaki]

the GIF to MP4 bullshit has officially begun (with my content, anyway). I used the teensy bit of free time I had tonight trying to make another Minato's Laundromat manga edit & got all of one GIF in because I was too busy going to battle with Tumblr to, ya know- create.

this is what my GIF actually looks like.

this blurry, bluish monstrosity is what the hellsite chewed up & spit out after very obviously converting it to an MP4. anyone telling you there's no visible difference with conversion is lying through their TEETH.

I found a workaround & the GIF is appearing like it should now, but I lost SO much time that I shouldn't have had to. and I'm adept at this stuff...if I had to deal with crap like this as a beginner? I would've never continued. making edits is time-consuming enough without Tumblr butchering our work.

edit: here’s info on letting Tumblr know how you feel about this change (you know I’ll be). creators keep this site alive, but we can’t do that if we can’t create.

for my fellow GIF makers: this super helpful post helped me fix the issue (I used the “make one of the least popular colors transparent” technique).

this cannot become the standard, though: in my case, making that one color transparent doubled the size of my GIF (make it make sense), meaning I had to cut the run time of the GIF in half. still, it’s better than nothing.