@Alice, from support, I'm glad that after going through so many versions you finally corrected the misspelling of the word "Animated" as you had it before as Animaetd at the bottom part of the screen and one more quote, this company is part of Aoao, isn't it?

Thank you very much for this little nice tool. Installation runs smooth on a windows 7 Ultimate machine. I don`t need so often animated gifs but this is a keeper for me if I am able to find it. It would be helpful to have some additional possibilities in the installation procedure. Also a crop function will be nice. For me: a keeper

Works really well on videos I've taken on a camera but not so good on animated ones. As mentioned above, would be nice to have a cropping function built-in. This is a keeper for me just for this one function.
Thanks for the offer

daddyfish#15, you said: ‘after conversion the video “speeds up” once the conversion is complete. Any ideas?’

my thought is: normally animated gifs are meant to be very short..you mentioned a 47 second video. try just a couple seconds of that video converted to gif. an animated gif is most often used to run over and over, it isn't a video with sound.

There's no option to install a shortcut to desktop or start menu/programs. Interesting choice, made it difficult to find after installing. Running Windows 8.1 (x64) under Classic Shell

Installed and runs fine. I particularly like the way you can select a small portion from a video and make a good old fashioned small animated GIF either for a website or to use as a visual indication of a video's content.

I miss the Gif program that used to come with Paint Shop Pro. It allowed the adding of animated text to .gifs AND cropping.
Cropping allows you to cut away all but what you want to be in the center of your gif.
And, if you want to make a square gif but the video you want to make it from is 16:9 rectangular, todays GAotD will not do. You can only rezize the video.
Also, cropping makes for smaller frames and therefore smaller .gif file sizes. Very important when wanting to upload a animated .gif avatar to a forum that limits the shape/file sizes of gifs.
Todays Giveaway needs this cropping feature to really be useful for those that want to make gifs for uploading & a text editing feature would be nice too.

Karl's insights and comments on the software offered are always well thought out and well said, but perhaps he should stop mentioning "Uninstalled via reboot", since it confuses some people, and they always get a lot of negative "votes". It would be easier not to have to have one of us keep explaining what he means each time. Just my 2 cents.

I installed this on Win 10 Pro and it registerred without any fuss! The program works quite well and I will be keeping it. I tried and was able to do a conversion without too much effort! I think I will get better results as I better learn it's uses. I looks forward to seeing how the program improves over time!

Thanks Video to GIF Converter 5.2 and GOTD!

Rick Martin

Downloaded and installed fine on Win 7/64. Very simple to use, but had to hunt around a bit for the Output folder settings... the box is same color as the background and my eyes are not the best. The picture in the help on their website does not look the same as the current black one. Frankly, I like the White in the website pic much better. But that's pretty trivial and just my opinion.

Converts in under a minute? No way, unless the Video is also quite short. It IS fast though.

My first video was 8-mins long, and playback after conversion was "sped up (using default settings. It went an 8-min mp4 to a 30 second gif on meth.

I am trying another on that is only about 2 mins but am having issues with uploading it to Photobucket. I can go to the direct url just fine, but just get a blank white image, even though the preview is there.

What I'd really like to know is if there is a way to load video from a URL in this converter? Or do I have to choose a file from my hard drive?

Thanks... other than that, it seems to be a keeper :)

VERY BAD is not a crop function...

often you dont want to convert all video in a gif but only a part, i mean the video have resolution 200x200 you want to convert only what is visible from 150 to 150 pixel...

beside this not seems bad

Installed on Windows 8. Controls for setting times doesn't work (or rather work very poorly). Goes for both the controls with sliders and by inputting numbers directly. Tried to make an animated gif of a small sequence (Miss Piggy knocking down Kermit from the Muppet Show), but could not set the start and end points at all well. The start point about 2 seconds to early, but the only later point I can successfully set is almost at the end of the sequence I wanted to capture in my Gif.
Now, that problem can of course be circumvented by cutting out the exact sequence to be converted in some other software and then loading that particular sequence. But that's definitely not acceptable for a piece of software being offered at a price. Had it been working I might have considered $10 offer (and what is actually the full price? In one place it says $19.90, in another $29.90.)
I also liked the old(?) interface displayed on the publisher's web-site better with the controls directly available without being hidden behind buttons.

Program works, but I see some problems with the framerate in the output gif. Tested 4 video's, only one was converted the right way. It seems that if you don't start on a keyframe in the movie, the frames inbetween till the startpoint of the gif, are included and displayed in the output at the set frame rate as well. So the beginning of the gif often seems very slow, after the inbetween frames it picks up the framerate correctly. Only uncompressed movies will not have this problem.

Pretty rudimentary. Thundersoft is the best so far.

Thank you for this software today! I have installed it on my Win7Pro system (haven't' received Win10 as yet). Converted a video and had no problems whatsoever. Enjoying this. Hope it stays when I upgrade to 10!!

Downloaded and registered without problems. In particular, no name & email was required,.

Also positive is that the format WEBM is supported, although not specifically mentioned in the specs. As this format is now widely adopted e.g. by imgur, I’d advise the developers to add it to those mentioned, it would be to their advantage.

In converting the above WEBM video, I was impressed by the speed and quality.

The resulting GIF speed at the default setting was also very fast, it had to be drastically reduced, which also reduced speed of conversion. Perhaps the program could be made to better estimate this parameter.

Setting the start point of the conversion also seemed tricky, at least I couldn’t get it where I wanted it, the program seemed to jump from much before to much after it in the space of 1 sec. which was obviously incorrect.

A small weakness is also the inability to rename subsequent attempts at the same video, which means the previous attempt has to be overwritten. Of course, one could always change the name of the previous attempt (or change the output folder) before proceeding to the next one, but this is slightly less convenient.

I shall be keeping this without hesitation and look forward to a subsequent version that may improve on the above mentioned (small) weaknesses.

Program is very limited in size you can convert. Couldn't convert a 1:52sec video (34megs) past 5% at 1200x675 res, 12fps even though the timer Start & End was set.

GOTD seems to have a converter 2-3 time a week. I can't verify that data, but the statistics are certainly very high. I like to come here when other giveaway/discount sites don't have anything I want, and what do I usually find, a media converter.

Thanks GOTD for all that you provide. But, you are sure heavy on media converters.

I think that this is the first time that I have seen software ranked 50/50! 61 thumbs up and 61 thumbs down.

Installed and registered without difficulty, opened up to an easy to use interface except some of the areas were difficult to read in particular where it said output folder.
Imported Avi, MP4 and FLV files which it handled without the slightest difficulty when converting to an animated GIF, it also preview them without with ease.
When a video is opened it detects the frame size and this is changeable as is the number of frames to be included in the output.
It also allows effects of the output frames, sharpen work quite well.
Very impressed with the speed it converted and quality of the output it produced.

Have quite a collection of video files and creating an animated Gif of them would make a good summary of the contents of the each.
It is most certainly a keeper, love it.

Installed on windows 10 64 bit, simple software to use without any additional installs, i think i'll keep it.

Installed and registered without problems on a Win 10 Pro 64 bit system. A clean install.

A company without name and address. Phone number for sales only - part of WonderFox&family&friends, digitally signed E-Mig technology.
" AoaoPhoto Digital Studio (aoaophoto.com) which was founded in 2008. AoaoPhoto Digital Studio is a multimedia software company dedicated in providing innovative photo/video applications for individuals as well as business"

And a nice claim from their web page:
"Operation + conversion within 1 minute" Guaranteed???

This seems to be a subset from their Video to Picture Converter 5.0, which was GOTD on November 28, 2014. Here are the old reviews:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/video-to-picture-converter-5-0/


A dark resizable interface opens, no settings or preferences found. You add your video, you can apply some more or less useful effects, define the output path and convert. I tested it. Well the minute is true for some very short video. It all depends on the definition.

http://i.imgur.com/1MNfltT.png

The output of my test video grows from a 22 MB mp4 video to a 37 MB animated gif with the default values. Of course you can change resolution and the number of captures images per second. Instead of an animated gif, you can choose some other image formats for the same series of images.

Does what it claims. A simple and working video to gif solution. If you need animated gifs, you can take this.
Uninstalled via reboot, didn't make an animated gif in the last sixty month.

Have a nice Sunday!

Dear GOTD users,

It has been so long since previously we gave away our Video to Gif for GOTD users. To celebrate 2015 summer holiday, we elaborately make the new version free for

special you. We’re happy to announce that this software has been updated to Version 5.1 with uncountable small but brand new features. Wish you can gain a brand new

user-experience by joining in this giveaway campaign.

Please make sure you are following the below guidelines to participate in this giveaway:
1. Download Video to Gif from GOTD site.
2. Unzip the install pack.
3. Install and register with the license code in the pack.

As usual, the Giveaway Version makes no difference with the Full Version except it doesn't support any free update.

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Come and join us to explore more about the new version Video to Gif. Have a good time! Besides, all kinds of suggestions on our software are warmly welcomed. You can

either reach our support team at support@watermark-software.com or email me at AliceBrown@watermark-software.com. :)

Sincerely,
Alice from Video to Gif Support Team.