Really Good Work

I’ve made one GIF thus far, and it proved to be nearly painless and had exactly the desired effect. This app doesn’t require a lot of technical expertise to get effective results, which is important to me if I’m just out having some fun.
I checked a lot of other GIF-making products, pored over their reviews and decided this would be worth the somewhat-small price for a fully functional app. It does what it says, with some nice editing features.
The reviewers that decry the lack of full editing capability need to realize that this is largely just a converting toy. The real editing should happen in iMovie and QuickTime, which give great results.
I took the spit-take sequence from SpaceBalls (where Rick Moranis’ character drinks coffee), did a screen recording with QuickTime, cut the original 8-second segment to 1.3 seconds in iMovie by chopping out the “less-meaningful” parts, and went in search of a gif maker. The result was almost perfect.
The reviewers that didn’t like some of the “clinginess” (asking for reviews, asking about making smaller file size, etc.) EITHER didn’t realize that there were checkboxes to remove the badgering, or were heard by the developers, who made those checkboxes available.
I’d like to see more sharing options (so far, only Tumblr, Mail and Messages), but once it’s on your drive, you can pretty much just share it however you want. That being said, FaceBook didn’t seem to recognize that I was trying to upload a GIF, and only posted my work as a photo. Hrmm; not sure what’s going on there.
Five Stars, for me, is not a “Thumbs-up;” three is (are?), so this four-star rating of mine is pretty darned good.

dixieclarinet1 about VideoGIF, v2.0.6