Thread:StoryMaker the Echidna/@comment-4643078-20161104152156/@comment-4457974-20161104152929

Yep! These are the main programs I use to make gifs:

- Open Broadcaster Software, a great screen-recording tool.

- RAD Video Tools. I actually first downloaded it because some JumpStart cutscenes use a file type that it (and not much else) can open, but it also has a nifty and extremely straightforward feature for converting videos to gif (and other image formats for that matter).

- A piece of software for converting other video types to avi (because RAD Video Tools actually can't use the filetypes that OBS uses, lol).

- Jasc Animation Shop, a great and really straightforward tool for making and working with animated gifs. It came with Paint Shop Pro 9, a Photoshop-type piece of software that's almost 10 years old now, and which I got when it was new, so I've owned it for quite a while now! I actually like Animation Shop a lot more for making gifs than Photoshop.

All of those tools other than Animation Shop are free. (Well, actually the video conversion software is a trial version, but it works perfectly fine for my purposes.)