GIF Brewery



GIF Brewery by Gfycat gives everyone the power to create stunning GIFs from video files. Its simple, powerful, intuitive to use-and now its free. GIF Brewery is a Mac OS X application that lets you convert brief clips from your video files into a GIF. Technology/Standard Usage Requirements. GIF Brewery is a Mac OS X application that lets you convert brief clips from your video files into GIFs. No longer must you extract frames from your movies and fiddle with layers in Adobe. Lot of new features, improvements, as well as integration with Gfycat uploading and Gfycat user accounts. GIF Brewery is now part of Gfycat's family of apps which means the app is now FREE! Alternative products to GIF Brewery 3.05 alternative and related products to GIF Brewery 3.0. GIF Brewery 3.0. Video to GIF creator.

Make a Recording

In addition to creating GIFs from your video files, GIF Brewery can also help you record the following:

  • Your webcam.
  • A connected and active iOS device.
  • A portion of your screen.
  • An app’s window.

With these recordings, you can quickly share them to Gfycat or create a .gif as shown inThe Basics tutorial. All of these options can be found from the “Stein” icon in the top right of your screen.

Record Video…

To record from your attached webcam or iOS device, choose the “Record Video…” option. If you wish to record your iOS device, you’ll need to make sure that the iOS device is connected to your Mac before opening GIF Brewery.

Once you choose “Record Video…”, near the record button, you’ll see a down arrow that lets you choose the videorecording’s source. You’ll be able to select between your webcam and any attached iOS device.

Press the record button to start the recording and the stop button to end the recording. Once the recording has been saved to your ~/Movies/GIF Brewery 3/ folder, the video will automatically open in a new GIF Brewery window. From there you can start brewing your fine-created GIF.

Record Screen…

If you’d like to record a portion of your screen, choose the “Record Screen…” option or the “New Screen Recording…” option from the “File” menu. This will bring up the all new GIF Brewery Screen Recording window.

You can resize and move the window to select the area you wish to record. GIF Brewery will record the transparent area inside the window. Near the record button, you’ll also find buttons to turn toggle recording of the cursor and recording of mouse clicks.

To start recording, simply press the Record button. Repeat to stop the recording. The new recording will be added to the bottom slide of past recordings. Clicking the recording will open it in a new GIF Brewery window.

Record Window…

In addition to recording the screen, you can have GIF Brewery record a particular window without other windows overlapping or blocking the recording.

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To start a new window recording, use the “Record Window…” option from the status menu. You’ll see a list of currently visible windows. Once you choose one, it will start to record the window. To stop the recording, just access the menu again and choose the new “Stop Recording Window” option. This will open the new recording in a GIF Brewery window.

Share to Gfycat!

In addition to creating .gifs, GIF Brewery can now quickly upload your simple loops to Gfycat. To do this, simply press the “Upload to Gfycat” button. It’ll create a high-quality .mp4 with all your filters, cropping, and captions applied. (Other .gif settings are not applicable.)

Once you press the “Upload to Gfycat” button in the toolbar, you’ll be offered the chance to log in to Gfycat. By logging in to Gfycat, the loop will automatically saved to your Gfycat account. However, you can also skip this and GIF Brewery will still let you upload to Gfycat.

Once the .mp4 is created, you’ll be given the option to title & tag the loop. Once you’re satisfied, simply press the Upload button. GIF Brewery will send the loop off to Gfycat and wait for it to finish processing. Once processed, GIF Brewery will open the Gfycat link in your browser as well as present a notification that it is ready.

It’s up to you what to do with the link next. Good luck!

Gif Brewery is the easiest way to create GIF images from any type of videos, especially those taken with the iPhone. You can open up a video file, import one via URL (including YouTube), Stitch images and video, Record Screen actions or record video from the computer camera.

The nice thing about Gif Brewery is that you get a lot of flexibility to create animated GIFs. If I needed more flexibility I can use Wondershare Filmora and then import it to Gif Brewery.

It took a while to understand how to work the timeline settings - but once you play around with it for a bit it is fairly straightforward.

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Gif Brewery is free and definitely worth downloading and adding to your collection.


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Things I have Learned from using GIF Brewery

Gif Brewery 3 Tutorial

  • By default, when you add a video the frame rate is set to 20, which makes the video go quickly.
  • You set the length of the GIF by dragging the start and end point. The bigger the points the larger the video. (Try to keep the Gif less than 10 seconds)
  • Clicking on the 'Create' button is how you can preview the image before saving the image.
  • None of the settings are applied instantly in the main video area.
  • You can preview the loop by typing the Shortcut Option-Command-L, you can add a 'Preview Loop' shortcut to the toolbar, simply Control-Click the toolbar, and select 'Customize Toolbar' and then drag and drop the 'Preview Loop' to the toolbar.
  • You can extract the clip as PNG files, by Typing Command-P. (This is useful if you want a preview image.)

Four Key Things about Creating Awesome Gifs

  • Keep the GIfs content simple
  • Keep the file size as small as possible - in Slack, any GIF that is ove 5 MB won't be displayed
  • Faster Frame rates are one way to have a longer GIF with a smaller file size.
  • Check the gfycat collection to see if it was already done or someone created a better gif.

Sample GIFs created in Gif Brewery

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Gas Prices in the Bay Area in 1999.

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Train Arriving in Framingham