Simple Effective Screen Recorder to Create GIFS

 
Simple, effective... record your screen to create impactful GIFs. Once recorded, also a very powerful GIF editor- Use it for independent editing of any GIFs you may already have...



Screen2Gif - https://www.screentogif.com/

Screen2Gif On GitHub - https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif
Screen2Gif on PortableFreeware.com - https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2895 - was a broken link when searched...
Screen2Gif on Softpedia - https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Others/Screen-to-Gif.shtml
Screen2Gif on Chip.de - https://www.chip.de/downloads/Screen-To-Gif_65993193.html
Screen2Gif on Choclatey - https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/screentogif

Is it... "GIF", "Gif", "GIFs", "Gifs"  or....? Let me know below.

I also use another program called ShareX for screen captures- this program is much much much much more feature rich. It allows for multiple formats of screen capture, be it still image or video, or as a GIF.

The GIF files tend to be on the LARGE side...

but, hey... you learned of another application to optimize such large GIF files - just open Screen2Gif and select > Load ... this will take a moment or 2... wait for it to load up.  Once loaded, on the Edit tab select Remove Duplicates with a value of around 85%... you can leave the timing the same or make it so the time is averaged over the deleted frames(otherwise you may end up with something that resembles a timelapse). Save your now reduced size GIF.

To further optimize you GIF navigate to ezgif.com > click on optimize > upload your file > "Online GIF optimizer and compressor" > Optimization method: From the dropdown: "Lossy GIF" and a value of 35 (or more, though the quality degrades quick anything north of that 35 value... ) > click "Optimize GIF!" > wait a moment and your optimized media will load below... once loaded you can click on the save file link or right click and save.

Leave a comment below if you use Screen2Gif or have found this post useful.

Resources mentioned: Screen2GIF, ShareX, EZGIF