How do I make animated GIFs from movies?

How to Make Animated Gifs?

• Hi i wanted to make some animated gifs of stewie from family guy i have downloaded the movies but i don't know how to extract gifs from the movies?

• Answer:

  First you use whatever software you have lying around -- since I've been on Linux since before Windows Movie Maker came out I would use convert from ImageMagick or Avidemux -- to separate out individual frames and usually save them as jpegs. All the individual frames. Then I would open -- any paint program, create layers and import each jpeg into one. I would indeed save it as a large file so it's likely I would have to resize it smaller first -- any gif is larger than a jpeg with the same image and animated gifs of course are collections of gifs, not jpegs. Use Gimp or photoshop and there are tutorials for all of these on Youtube. Though you have to look them up by the package you will be using. I don't know the Windows jpeg extractor.