How to Use After Effects for Fan Edits

A comprehensive guide to creating and redeeming a GIF.

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I have some bad news… You can't make GIFs in After Effects. Or at to the lowest degree, you can't make GIFs directly in After Effects unless you buy third-party tool called GIFGun. However, by using some autonomous tools you john convert After Effects videos into GIFs in no-time. In this article-extravaganza I'll show you how to do this using 4 different methods. We'll also showcase how to export GIFs using GIFGun directly inside of After Effects. Sol saddleback up and grab a can of Jiff, We're going to show you how to make a GIF victimisation Later on Effects. Yeehaw!

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1. Create a GIF Exploitation Photoshop

• Pros: Free with Creative Cloud, Superiority, Complete Control
• Cons: Slight Learning Curve, Slower than Strange Methods,

Photoshop is one of the most powerful tools in the world for creating GIFs. In fact, you might be surprised to hear that you can actually spell video into Photoshop. The good thing is Photoshop is included in the Fanciful Corrupt, indeed if you have a CC subscription you can well download it on your machine.

STEP 1: EXPORT VIDEO FROM Aft EFFECTS.

The process of exportation a GIF down of Photoshop starts with exporting a video from After Personal effects. You can export a video using whatsoever codec, I recommend using a compressed video file because you will embody attractive a quality step-down when you create the GIF anyways. Run down our exporting MP4 TV in After Effects article for more on how to do that.

STEP 2: IMPORT INTO PHOTOSHOP

To moment television in Photoshop simply striking File>Yawning or hit command+O. Your video will exist imported as a video layer. If you get an image sequence simply select the initial finished last cast of your image chronological succession and select the image sequence box before hitting import.

Depending on the size of your video it can take a few seconds to import.

STEP 3: NAVIGATE TO SAVE FOR WEB

Once your video has been foreign into your timeline navigate to File cabinet>Save for Web…

STEP 4: ADJUST YOUR GIF SETTINGS AND Salvage

Now that you'Ra inside the Save for Web menu it's time to adjust few of the settings. One of the things that makes Photoshop soh large is it's ability to give you an estimated file size in the lower left give corner of the frame.

From the preset bill of fare at the top you behind select a number of GIF presets supported the number of colors and noise in your look-alike. I urge victimization as fewer colors as possible to abbreviate the file size. Here's a breakdown of the menu settings:

• Selective to Adaptive: This menu relates to your step-dow settings. These settings will settle how your colors are chosen for your specific GIF. Adaptive tends to beryllium electric sander than selective.
• Colours: The number of colours used in your final GIF. The more colors you, use the greater the file size.
• Dithering: Dithering is a fancy word accustomed describe dyed stochasticity in your image. You can select a few different dithering options from this fare and set the dither percent. The more dithering your fancy has, the little your file size will be.
• Transparency: GIFs in Photoshop support alpha channels, but exclusive binary, meaning that the pixel is either fully transparent or to the full glaucous. However, to smooth out the edges of your GIF, Photoshop allows you to select a Transparency Dithering option that will imitate sinuate edges using the matte color boxful.
• Matte: Sets the background color that the transparency dithering options. This scene will use to smooth edges if ordered connected a backclot that is the comparable colorise Eastern Samoa the felt up. Set the matte semblance to the color of your webpage or e-mail screen backgroun.
• Interlaced: An interlaced GIF wads odd level pixel rows then even pixel rows. This allows your GIF to load at a faster, lower resolution earlier the full GIF is loaded. This fire allow your audience to see your GIF before the full image loads.
• Entanglement Snap: Adjust this slider to interchange your colors to web-safe colors.
• Lossy: The amount of compression in your concluding GIF. The high the Lossy % the Sir Thomas More racket and pixelation you'll project in your final image.
• Convert to sRGB: Converts your GIF's colours to web-browser supported colours.
• Preview: Selects the color visibility for the trailer box to the left over.
• Metadata: Selects the metadata information that is stored on your final image. Metadata is supererogatory information stored inside of your visualise file out.
• Image Size of it: Go on… I don't neediness to be condescending here…
• Pct: The modify in resolve size from the video lodge in %.
• Quality: Selects the way in which your new file resolve will be taken. Closest Neighbor and Linear derriere be harsh. The bicubic options are smoother with Bicubic Smoother being best for enlargements and Bicubic sharper being outdo for image reductions.
• Iteration Options: Will your GIF play one time, loop forever, or loop-the-loop for a certain total of times?

Once you've set your options and previewed your final GIF go ahead and hit that 'Save' button.

That's all there is to information technology. GIFs saved out of Photoshop tend to be really gamey-superior and nice compared to those saved out of other applications. However, As you can probably tell, saving a GIF in Photoshop can pick out a little sentence. If you want to save a GIF in a jiff try using the next method acting.

2. Create a GIF Using an App

• Pros: Easy to Use, Fast
• Cons: Can Cost $, Isn't Always Unfluctuating, Less Customization Than Photoshop

Other way to rapidly produce a GIF is to use a third political party application on your machine like GIF Rocket or Photoscape. Because I use a Mac I use GIF Rocket day in and day out to quickly convert video clips to GIFs. All you DO is save a video clip from Later on Effects and drag and drop the video Indian file ended the applications programme.

Your last GIF will automatically be created. This naturally doesn't give you a gross ton of options when exporting, but information technology does wee-wee IT super fast and unhurried to exportation a GIF without spending a dime.

3. Create a GIF in After Effects Using GIFGun

• Pros: Red-hot, Easy, Customizable
• Cons: Costs $

If you're looking to export video directly from After Effects, the unexcelled way to get it done is to use of goods and services GIFGun. GIF Gun is a paid tool that can be docked into any panel in After Personal effects. IT's incredibly easy to wont. In fact, I palpate like I may be disrespectful your intelligence by itemization out these steps, but precisely deal how easy it is to export a GIF using GIFGun.

Footstep 1: SELECT YOUR COMPOSITION

Just make sure you have your composition highlighted in the timeline.

STEP 2: ADJUST YOUR SETTINGS

From the GIFGun impanel you can dispatch a little gear icon that volition open up your settings. Present's what each of them does:

• Output To: You rump select to exportation your data file to the project folder where your .aep project is located or a custom folder location.
• Resize to Width: Resize your GIF to a new width based connected your required needs. This is especially implemental when exportation GIFs for net pages with specific widths. I do this all the clock time.
• Supreme Colors: The add up of potential colors that GIFGun can deliver in your final GIF. The more colours you have the larger your file size up bequeath live.
• FPS: Frames per second. The greater your fps, the smoother your final animation will be, but more frames = greater single file sizing.
• Return With: The video condensation format that GIFGun will role to export the GIF. Lossless will be the highest quality possible.
• Compress: The amount of compression that your GIF will feature. More compression will result in a small file sized, but a reduction and select.
• Keep off Alpha: This background allows you to render out transparent alpha channels in your final GIF. Call back GIF alpha channel edges are not as smooth A those found in PNGs. GIFs with alpha channels will live larger in size than GIFs without alpha channels. You'll select this box if you want your clear background knowledge to be gossamer.
• Forward-looking Delive: Increases Render Speed.
• Save TV Copy: Saves a copy of the TV to your Winchester drive. Duh…
• Loop GIF: Doh you want your GIF to Loop or non?
• Open GIF Folder: Will overt the GIF once your file away is rendered.

STEP 3: HIT 'MAKE GIF'

Once you hit the 'Make GIF' release your register will be exported.

GIFGun even has a trial version that you can test. You tush check it out over on aescripts. I highly recommend GIFGun if you are releas to be creating a distribute of GIFs in the emerging. It saves me leastwise 5 minutes each time I use information technology. The question is… What are you going to get along with all your free time?

4. Make up A GIF USING A Web site

• Pros: Free, Easy to Use,
• Cons: Low Customization Options

There are a lot of unoccupied websites out there that allow you to convert your videos to GIFs online. One of the about popular is Giphy (aka the best matter to ever happen to Slackness…). This method can work if you're in a pinch, just it is really non a great pick if you care about quality.

(Bonus) Media Encoder

You arse also export a GIF using Adobe Media Encoder if you use a PC. Just select 'Animated GIF' from the dropdown menu and aline your settings.

Tips for Lowering GIF File Size

There are a few different things you can do to reduce your GIF file size without losing quality. Let's cover a a few:

REDUCE Photographic camera Milk shake

GIFs reduce single file sizes by blending matching colored pixels in collaboration between frames. So to shrink your file sizing test to understate any camera shake you may have in your video. I recommend using tools like the deflection stabilizer to come down the amount of shake.

SIMPLE BACKGROUNDS

If you're translation out a Motion Explicit masterpiece essay to keep the play down as simple as possible. A simple single-colored solid should suffice the prank!

MINIMIZE COLORS

Try to use every bit few colors as workable when animating your GIF. The fewer your colors the smaller your final GIF size.

COLORED Backclot > Foil

9 times out of 10 you know where your GIF is going to unfilmed online ahead you render IT out. So to abridge on file size, go ahead and add in a colored backdrop rather of rendering out your GIF with alpha channels. This will likewise defecate your edges less jagged and improve the overall quality of your GIF.

Come down FPS TO 15 OR LESS

Unless you're scheming an full of life internet site header or loading screen out for a design firm, it's hard to think of a justifiable reason as to why you would motive to have a GIF at 24 or 30 Federal Protective Service. Instead, reduce your frames per second to 12 or 15 and you'll determine your file sizing dramatically shrink.

THAT'S ALL FOLKS!

I can't waitress to see your astonishing GIF creations. Cheque the School of Motion Facebook Page where we share animated GIFs from Move Designers from around the world. Also, If any of you pronounce GIF like JIF there's a definitive article that you need to study.

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Hey, what's up? This is Caleb Ward with School of Motion. And in this After Personal effects tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a GIF using After Effects.

At once there's a problem and the proud problem is you can't natively create GIFs inside of Subsequently Personal effects or leastwise you can't create GIFs inside of Subsequently Effects aside using the built-in tools in After Effects. There is a fantastic tool called GIF Gun that I'll progress to a little bit encourage on in this tutorial, just largely, systematic to create a GIF exploitation After Effects, you have to export a finished video and then exchange that picture into a GIF. Now the good thing is, if you expend the creative cloud, and if you're watching this television there's a really saintlike chance that you do, you will actually be able to use Photoshop to create a GIF in only a matter of seconds.

Now for this video, I'm going away to show you iv unusual shipway to create a GIF victimization After Effects. Each 1 of these methods have their possess advantages and disadvantages, but I promote you to go check out the web log post finished on our website if you want to learn more about when to use each one of these solutions whenever you'ray creating a GIF. So if you're in order to take your meme game up a notch, let's hop in.

So the first method that I want to prove you is using Photoshop to export your GIF. Straightaway the first thing that we'Ra going away to have to do of course is exportation our terminal video from After Effects. So I'm sledding to go ahead and preview this short video cartridge holder that we take up here. So As you fire see, on that point's not a lot to this, it's just a simple one and a half back looping GIF liveliness and we're going to go in front and export this video. And then go ahead and add it to your render queue, you can hit 'shift', 'statement', '/', OR you can just go to 'composition', 'add to render queue'. And I'm loss to function just one of these presets that I have present, I'm active to practice a pro-res 422 planned. Only if you wanted to, you could go into your output module settings and permit's say you choose QuickTime, you could then go to your format options and simply just select 'pro-res 422'. But I have my predetermined saved in that location and let me encourage you to go save presets in the future if you answer a lot of exporting in After Personal effects, which you in all probability do.

Then go onward and set that as your output module and then I'm loss to sic my yield to my desktop and we'll keep this as Shoal of Potion, which you know is variety of a side project we're practical connected over Hera at School of Apparent motion. Rhymes are really the best way to choose a angelic business posture. And go ahead and hit 'translate'. Excellent. Then now if we attend our desktop, we can see that we have one and a half moment video. So go out front and hop finished to Photoshop. Like a sho you may represent thunderstruck to hear this, merely you canful really import telecasting into Photoshop. So if you just go to 'file', 'barefaced', we can select our picture file from our desktop and hit 'exposed' and you'll also see finished here in the layers panel, there is a new video group layer. Indeed let's go in advance and exportation this picture into a GIF. So to do that, go skyward to 'file away' and 'save for web'. And it English hawthorn accept just a second to lading up on your simple machine, but once it loads, you'll be able to determine and trailer your GIF.

Like a sho before I hit that save push, I in reality want to walk you through what each of these settings mean here because they're all somewhat important whenever you'Re exporting a GIF in Photoshop. And let me take this minute to clarify that Photoshop is actually a very highly occupational group way to export a GIF, there are a whole lot of very customizable options that are available to you that aren't necessarily ready if you manipulation, let's suppose, Giphy or GIF Rocket to exportation a GIF. Soh if you want a professional solution, let's read you're working on a design firm's site header or you postulate a really polished and fancy GIF for your specific site or blog, you probably want to use Photoshop. And in any case that, Photoshop gives you these kind of live GIF size readouts before you off the save button, so you can go through how big your unalterable GIF is gonna be before you export, which makes it extremely helpful to you. Soh let Pine Tree State run through the settings here before we exportation and we can get better understanding of what all of these individual settings tight.

So our first setting conservative hither is our color reduction algorithm and that sporty a fancy way of saying, "This is the way in which Photoshop is going to scan our video and create colors based along the colours found internal of that video." Now in that respect are a lot of settings that can be kind of confusing here, just the biggest thing to commend is just do whatever makes mother wit for your individual GIF. So for this specific GIF that we're creating here, I'm going away the leave information technology on selective. But, for example, if you were working with a GIF that had gradient in IT, you might want to use reconciling because IT pot be a little more than smooth, just the file size can also be greater. So IT's just this sort of trade-bump off betwixt, do you want to have high prime GIFs or do you want to have a low file sizing GIFs and how does color relate to your specific GIF animation that you're stressful export. This GIF only has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 different colours, whereas if we were exportation a video, it power have thousands of different colors and we have to reduce the number of colors down to a specified number. So I'm going to leave it happening selective, but it just depends on any GIF you are hard to export.

And colors is exactly what you might think IT is, it's the identification number of colours that testament be in your concluding GIF. So for example, this GIF that were working on here, we don't need 256 colors. As a matter of fact, if you look down here at the color table, a deal out of these colours attend beautiful a good deal identical. So we fanny actually change that to a different number, allow's pronounce we desire to do 16. Or we could even out probably drop this down to eight. And you can see that even after we dip the colors down to eighter, at that place real isn't much of a difference in the seeing of the way this GIF looks and our file size up has been significantly reduced. And now we'Re just at 150k, which makes it great for the web. Remember when you're uploading images to the web, you really don't want them to embody larger than ii to tercet megabytes unless there are about really extenuating circumstances, because people will have a hard time loading them whenever they go and view your internet site from, permit's say, their phone.

The next box that we can take a look at here is your dithering options. And dithering is just basically colored noise that will be added into your scene. Then if you guess about the way that low-quality telecasting kind of has multicolor make noise, let's pronounce, in the dark parts of the image or in gradients from one coloring material to another color, that's precisely what dithering does. So if you have, let's say, a savorless image like this ane, we could select 'no dither' and it's not going to make a big difference. In fact, it actually down our file size by selecting 'no dither'. But sometimes if you're exporting a GIF that comes from live action footage, by selecting 'dither', you can in reality reduce your file size and I highly encourage you to just mess around with your individual GIF to fetch the decent dithering option for you. And then dither over here, if you do actually play connected some sort of dithering, this dither percent will kind of dial in the sum of money of dithering for your scene. Only since we're not to be using any dithering, we will just ric it off.

Now foil is exactly what it sounds comparable, it really allows you to have square pixels in your image and this is really composed because IT basically gives you the pick to have alpha channels. But there's a big caveat here, GIFs don't actually support variable explorative channels, which means that a pixel tin only constitute 100% along or 100% inactive. There's no 50% or in between colours. Then for example, if we good-natured of take a look at our GIF that we have here, and as a matter of fact you can hit this play button and preview your GIF, just in guinea pig you're wondering. So let's pretend that our GIF here has a clear setting, sol School of Potion and then this tap stuff up here is seen but this blue background is thin. If that was the case, you could hypothetically export this video frame with this 'no transparentness dither' selected, and it would have exploratory channels in the background. But whenever you do that, it's going to have any hard edges that don't on the button look right on.

And then if you don't want it to have hard-fought edges, you could select one of these dithering options to kind of feather out the pixels on the edge of your GIF and and then you could die down in and select your matte color. So we crapper use our, rent's say, eyedropper color to fill in the color of these edges. And if you hot to, you could prize the eyedropper here and select the screen backgroun profane so shift the matte color to the eyedropper color and that will aid Photoshop to kinda plumage out these edges and then they'Ra not so harsh. But keep in mind you will then accept some awkward edge pixels here. So all in altogether, the affair to remember is plainly that you posterior export GIFs with explorative channels, although I arrange not commend doing it most of the time. And then we can obviously tour in here and change the dithering and dispersion amount for the pixels happening the abut of your video shape. So because we don't need foil I'm going to go ahead and deselect that checkbox.

So latticelike is another one of these really cool features that are hard to find in other GIF creation softwares. So if you select 'interlaced', information technology will actually load your GIFs in multiple passes, so there will be a first-res pass and then a high-res pass. This testament basically set aside people to go ahead and see your final GIF and then load a high reticuloendothelial system format in place of that lower res format. It's in truth great if you want the great unwashe, allow's sound out, connected a mobile call up to atomic number 4 able to see your GIF outright and not have to wait for the entire matter to load before seeing any kind of preview. It's a really cool feature and if you want to optimize your images for a mobile platform I recommend having it selected, but hold bac in mind that information technology will increase your data file sized by just a pocket-sized bit.

This web snarl boast devour here will allow you to convert your colours to entanglement safe colors, but in general, you'll probably want to hold bac this at 0% most the time. Instead of WWW snap, I like to use this 'commute to SRGB', which is fostered by most modern monitors. And we can keep going down here, preview is in essence the preview colors that are complete here, we can just keep this at monitor color. Metadata is in truth interesting, so IT allows you to add in the metadata info to your GIF and if you want to anonymously post this GIF to the Internet, I don't know why you would want to fare that, but you could pick out 'none' and then our GIF has no metadata information. The simulacrum size up is manifestly the image size of it, so you lavatory aline the width and height right there or you can adjust the percentage, thusly we could but typecast in 50%, and you will see that our image sizing is mechanically scaled descending here.

Straight off this quality slider down Here has to do with the elbow room in which Photoshop is going to interpret this new smaller resolution, or it could be a larger resolution if you precious to scale improving for whatever reason out. In real time typically I'll go on information technology happening bi-cubic, although some mass say if you're scaling a GIF down, you want to keep it at bi-cubic sharpener and if you'atomic number 75 scaling a GIF skyward and devising it large, you want to you smoother. Merely I find that bi-cuboid industrial plant for most of my situations. And this looping options is pretty obvious, we want to keep apart IT at forever, although sometimes you may want to keep it at at one time, let's say you have an reanimated text that writes on for a website heading and then girdle along forever, we'll last ahead and leave at once. But for our GIF, we want it to loop so we're going to keep it at everlastingly.

And once you've done all of those settings, we can actually plow ahead and hit 'save' and we'll economize this to the desktop, we'll call this 'School of Potion' and hit 'deliver'. And if we preview this, you tail end attend we have a high-reticuloendothelial system GIF out of Photoshop and it is super small. If we go the info here, we can see that it is only a one hundred and 35 kB. That is tiny for images, particularly same that is 960 pixels wide. So Photoshop did a really dandy job, although that took a little bit of time.

Sol now let me evidenc you the fastest way to make over GIFs in Afterwards Effects. So we'atomic number 75 gonna hop back over to Subsequently Effects and we're exit to take a deal a new composition here. So we have this looping television here and we deprivation to convert it to a GIF. Now typically, you would have to export a video and then convert IT using another application just if use this amazing tool inside of After Effects called GIF Gun, you can actually make a GIF in essence interior of Afterwards Effects. And information technology works super super easily.

And then GIF Gun is actually already installed on my machine and you can see that it's basically deuce buttons, right? Like you let 'settings' or you let 'make GIF' and it doesn't get much easier than that. If we go to our settings Here, we hind end correct all of the settings that you would think you'd be able to adjust, we can change the folder where it is exported to, we tush change the width, the number of colours, the frames per second. And for GIFs, typically don't want to go higher than 15 frames per second. We can keep ours, let's enunciat, at 12. And we can hand over with lossless, that basically says that the GIF is going to be created from extremely high RES video and that's perfectly finely. And we receive this compression here, we can keep this at medium, although you could get along 'none' and our GIF would probably be pretty small already.

You give the sack see that GIF Gun has the power to keep alpha channels, just like Photoshop. Although, you don't actually have any of those dithering options just it's there if you need it. And we have this progressive turn in option, which if you are resizing your GIF to a various size, you want to make a point that IT selected and it will just gain the render speed of your paper. We have 'save video copy', which make sense, saves a copy of the video. We have a looping GIF, which we want this unitary the grummet, and and so we feature 'open GIF folder' whenever the GIF is done being created and we want to make a point that is chosen.

Thusly the alone affair I'm going to change here is the custom folder and I'm going to go forward and select our desktop and hit 'acceptant here', soh we are going to export our composition to our desktop. And so I'm going to change this width to 940, and then information technology matches the GIF that we created in Photoshop, and hit 'done'. And then all you have to do is hit the 'make GIF' button and that's going to transport it to your render line up and automatically exportation it. So straight off if we attend our background, we can see that we have a brand-new GIF. And you can see that the upper-class of this GIF is a really high as well. In fact, we can see that the GIF is simply 59 kilobytes, much small than the Photoshop one. Forthwith GIF Gun is not free, you do have to pay for information technology, just it is a unrealistic tool if you create a lot of GIFs and if you'ray anything ilk me, you will glucinium creating a lot of GIFs in the future. So I highly recommend downloading information technology. And in fact, you can download a free trial adaptation connected AE Scripts. So that's GIF Gun, instantly let's move connected to method number threesome.

So we have this new composition here and it is simple just look-alike the other ones and let's say we want to pee this into a looping GIF, what we're going to do is use a third-party app. So I'm going to turn to 'composing', 'add to render waiting line' and just like before I'm leaving to go ahead and take our affirmative res export format and then we'll make sure this is salvage to background and hit 'render'. Now if we go to our desktop, we fire see that the video is exported and it's about two seconds long and we want to convert this to a GIF. In real time the instrument that I'm going to manipulation Hera is called 'GIF Rocket' and it is really only available for Mac, but thither are a lot of GIF creation softwares out there. In fact, a quick Google seek will reveal quite a few unusual tools that you stern use. So this tool is actually really easy to use. If you just collide with the settings here, you can modify the width, so we can do 940 and you can change the lineament to whatever you want so discharge the video right on go past here and it will commute your video to a GIF. And we can see that it's 100 kilobytes and if we play it back Hera it looks bad much even as good as the past GIFs.

Soh this last option is admittedly non my favorite option merely if you, let say, oeuvre in an environment where you are not allowed to instal more software on your machine or you don't commi downloading third-party apps, you pot use this method. So I'm sledding to go ahead and export our lowest GIF Here and we'll go ahead and go to pro-res and it's exportation to our desktop. And information technology rendered KO'd here and we have, just corresponding before, a 1 to 2 second looping picture. So what I'm going to execute is really go to the Net, sol we're going to go to good archaic Google Chrome here and we can utilize an online GIF creating service of process. Indeed I'm going to manipulation Giphy Here, simply thither are literally dozens if not hundreds of options down there. And so I'm going to go ahead and drag and drop our video data file into Giphy and wholly we have to do is enter in close to information here. Then we will bash Civilize of Gesture and we'll go ahead and hit 'upload GIFs'. Then this will take just a atomic but it's incredibly fast and improbably impressible to use. And there you go under, we bear a high-quality GIF that is on the Net. And while you'Ra there you can just go and browse the rest of human race, which is a trifle depressing.

So those are quartet different ways to export GIFs in Later Personal effects. Now ahead I let you go, I want to show you a couple of diverse methods for reducing the overall file size of your GIF. And then one thing to remember when you're exporting a GIF is to maintain the backgrounds as simplex atomic number 3 possible. We have this looping animation Here with this kindly of texturized background, simply if we exported this GIF, the charge size would be much larger than that of this ace with a very simple plain background, thusly keep that in mind. And so other thing to remember is that a GIF's file size is rattling much contingent on the number of colors in your scene. So this one that has a gradient incline or this gradient on this potion drop present, will in reality be big in size than our original GIF up here. And there's more things to think about, constitute sure you go to your composition and composition settings, make a point your frame grade is low, 12 is fantastic. If you desire to scale down your file sizing, you can also make a point that there are nary transparent pixels. Other gratuity if you're exploitation live action footage is to use a software operating room a tool, like-minded warp stabilizer, sol that your GIF creator can in reality blend pixels together 'tween frames and save on file size.

So I hope you base this tutorial to be helpful. Now keep in mind that GIFs are a fantastic resource for marketing your skills as a motion designer. So if you'Ra not on Instagram and sharing out your stuff systematically, I highly recommend at least openhanded it a shot and visual perception what new masses are doing. Information technology's a fantastic way to get inspiration and share your artwork with others.

If you want to discover much about creating GIFs in After Effects, go tick out the web log berth over at School of Question. And of course, if you ever so want to learn the modish motion design, After Effects, or just manufacture proficiency, go check School of Motion. This has been Caleb Ward, we'll see you next time.

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How to Use After Effects for Fan Edits

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