80% of online video is in Flash format, used by popular sites like YouTube and MySpace. FLV can be converted to GIF, but the quality is limited to 256 colors. Choose a compatible converter and select the desired output format. No audio settings are available for GIF.
A large portion of the video available on the Internet—80%, according to Adobe®—is Flash® video. Video hosting sites like Google Video®, Yahoo! Video and YouTube®, news sites like Reuters.com®, and social networking sites like MySpace® all favor the FLV format. GIF (Graphic Interchange Format), a bitmap image format introduced by CompuServe® in 1987, was extended to animated GIFs, sometimes called GIF89a, by Netscape in the 1990s. You can convert FLV to GIF image, animated GIF or GIF sequence. Neither of these GIF formats is actually a video, but GIF may be desirable if you want to display a drawing or simple animation from an FLV site, for example, as a thumbnail of a full video on a web page.
To convert FLV to GIF, the first step is to find an appropriate converter. The converter may be available for free or you may need to pay. Make sure you choose one that is compatible with your operating system. Some software programs that can convert FLV to GIF can also convert other formats, so especially if you’re paying for the video converter, you may want to think ahead of other types of conversions you may need. File types often offered include AVI, MP4, MOV, and SWF.
Once you choose a converter, you’re ready to convert FLV to GIF. Designate the type of file you want to convert and add the file, using a utility to open the file or by dragging the file into a window. Next, you will select the desired format for the exported file. This can also be called the “output format”.
You may or may not want to change the video settings. If you like, you can make changes to the resolution and frame rate. Note that GIF is not a video format and is limited to 256 colors. The quality will not be the same as the original file. Also note that unlike the situation where you’re converting FLV to MP4, for example, there are no audio settings, because GIF only has image data.
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