At the same time, however, I was wondering what neat utility might exist to allow me to create a GIF of that video. I not only created a logo for my website project, but, with the aid of SnapZ Pro, I video captured the animation and saved it as a QuickTime movie. Now only is that both cool and mind-boggling, but if you grab the handles of the object box which contains the circular text you just created, you can watch the text spin around and settle wherever you stop dragging the handle. Years ago, I reviewed Gifbrewery, a gif creation software, that converted video to a gif, and in my usual style lamented over the death of, GifBuilder.It was only last night-or should I say about 2 AM, since I'm on steroids that give me insomnia, along with a boost of energy that keeps me up for 2-3 days at a shot, before I crash-I upgraded to version 3 of The Print Shop, and I played around with their Circular Text tool that allows you to spin text into a circle or a spiral. GifBuilder remains the gold standard of gif creation, even acing out Macromedia Fireworks for its simple and insanely effective ability to create gifs frame-by-frame. It wasn't perfect, but it did offer the most control. When I reviewed GifBrewery back in 2013, it was revelatory, as it made the creation of video-to-gif easier than any solution. Assign gif properties (frame rate or frame count, looping mode, colors, color dithering).Creating a GIF's workflow was simplistic: GifBrewery mostly focused on quick and dirty video to gif conversion with the only editing allowing users to fade in and out text overlays (with blending modes), image crop and in and out points for the video edits. While it wasn't GifBuilder, it was something novel and certainly worth its small price. One of the more unusual changes is a product name change from Gifbrewery to Gif Brewery, along with a flat icon. Outwardly Gif Brewery 3 sports a more polished UI. Out the gate, the icon bar is right-clickable allowing the user to display icons, or icons + text or simply text, along with a customizable toolbar. It's a nice and welcome improvement and keeps in line with OS X centric applications like Sketch. The splash page greets you with a few new features: screen capture, camera capture and video import, the first two being entirely new. Screen captures/camera captures allow the user to record to a movie file, that is automatically imported to Gif Brewery. It's essentially the same as importing a video except removing the step of using a 3rd party program to capture. Screen Capture only captures full screen, cropping happens in post. The gif properties operate almost exactly as GifBrewery, except with a much more useful color count that's no longer limited to factors of 2. Overlays now get a bit more TLC with the ability to add image overlays. It's a welcome addition, likely useful for anyone looking watermark images. Once it comes time to create the gif, Gif Brewery 3's seems a little zippier and has a more meaningful status bar. Gif Brewery now can to view each frame inside a gif in a frame view function which appears to be purely aesthetic. It's like peering into the potential of what GifBuilder offered in almost 20 years ago: the ability to set time delays on individual frames and add/delete individual frames.
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