Tips for making GIF thumbnails under 1mb @dlive #tenminteach

so recently (i presume on the last update) @dlive updated the website and in that process it appears we can no longer upload images bigger than a 1mb in size which is a bit of a shame but will make sure that the website loads faster i’m sure.

it’s another step and process now from before, i just used to capture and drag to the cloud app tray icon, now i drag and then download it into gif brewery 3 — i’m going to start using gif brewery 3 to capture because i can adjust the amount of frames and colour quality.

i hope the video gives you a few extra options and you can find a pipeline from the screencast. i’m afraid i don’t have any options for the PC but you can use a website like alternative.to and put in ‘gif brewery 3’ — if you find a good PC tool please add it in the comments so others can find it.

i find that gifs look a little better if you use palindrome effect to bounce it back and forth, a smaller number of frames (10 to 15) a 16:9 sized file (it scales them up on @dlive) maybe around 28/32 colours, try any of the optimising algorithms till you find something that works for your source animation.

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