Gif Capture Utilities

[schild]

Can anyone point me to some decent capturing utilities for making gifs from .avis, .mpgs, etc.? I use Gif Construction Set to make my gifs, but I'd really prefer to not slam the screen cap key to make the gifs. Thanks.

[Trippy]

Microsoft's GIF Animator can make them from AVIs. It's crude by today's standard but it's free.

[schild]

Then uhm...what's not free and not crude? I like torturing people. I'm willing to pay for annoying avatars.

[Trippy]

I haven't used any of them but you can Google on

"Animated GIFs" AVI

for a selection of them.

[Merusk]

Jasc Paintshop has an animated gif maker called "Animation Shop."  I'm not at home so I can't check if it converts AVIs, though.. it's been a long time since I messed with it.  It was a nice little program, though.

[schild]

Yea, checking google is easy. But I'd prefer some sort of recommendation from you folks. If I can't leech knowledge from a userbase of geeks, what good are you all? Dance, my pretties.

[Merusk]

Hm.. looks like Corel bought Jasc.  They don't offer a free trial on Animation shop, but they offer a 30-day money-back and Animation shop is only $39.  (I liked their Paintshop Pro program because it only cost $99 and was a great replacement for Photoshop for a non-professional like me, not sure how it stacks professionally.)

Link

[Samwise]

I use AVD Video Processor.  It's got a number of very annoying quirks (like not being able to load an existing GIF, so if you want to edit a GIF you have to convert it to an AVI first), but it's a lot cheaper than anything Adobe makes.