How to export small animated Gif in premiere pro

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146 lessons / 17 hours 49 quiz questions 14 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is Daniel Walter Scott & I’m an award winning Adobe Certified Instructor. Welcome to the Premiere Pro Advanced Course.

This course is aimed at people who already know the fundamentals of Adobe Premiere Pro. If you have developed your own way of doing things but you realise there are so many tools, updates & time saving techniques that you haven't had time to explore then this course is definitely for you.
• We look at the best productivity hacks & little known features to super speed your timeline editing. 
• We explore color management, color grading, color replacement & skin tone correction.
• You will master all the new Lumetri color methods and harness the power of scopes. 
• You will learn new ways to successfully create traditional & new style transitions. 
• You will quickly become a master at fixing shaky handheld and drone footage.
• There won’t be anything you can’t mask or blur.
• We will get your computer running at warp speed using Proxies, Scratch Disk & Cache management. 
• You’ll master high frame rate footage to enable you to produce spectacular slow motion video. 
• You will create high quality professional motion graphics & data driven infographics. 
• You’ll learn all about Premiere Pro’s responsive time and design tools so you can make graphics & animation once that can be used across multiple future productions. 
• You will learn file and footage techniques which will enable you to work with multiple editors. 
• Multi-camera editing will be a breeze. 
• You will learn stunning techniques to help clean up your audio by removing noise, hiss & echo. 
• Learn how to manipulate & extend your music in Premiere Pro & also in Adobe Audition. 
• You’ll learn which tools & techniques are best for removing the monotony of repurposing the same footage across multiple sizes for social media. 
• Learn about markers, subtitles and amazing plugins, 
• You will learn all the best tricks and settings which will enable you to get the most from your rendering in Premiere Pro and also in Adobe Media Encoder.   
We cover all these topics and more in this course. 
Take a look at the contents and read reviews from other students and you’ll see this is the course that will get you from adequate - to EXCELLENT in Premiere Pro.

In this course we use real world, practical projects and use exercise files which you can download and then work alongside me.

If you can’t remember the last time you sat down & went through the features & updates in Premiere Pro, let this course be your all-in-one professional development & upgrade.  

You owe it to yourself -  sign up and get ready to become a Premiere Pro Super Hero.
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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  • Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz
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  • Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz
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  • Upload your Distinction project to the My Projects area in your account
  • Don't forget to request your certificate when you have passed the quiz and completed all your projects

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Downloads & Exercise files

Transcript

Welcome everybody, to this Black Friday sale extravaganza, communicated to you via a jumpy animated GIF, let me show you how to make it in Premiere Pro. All right, so this is what we're going to export, it's going to go out to an emailer, and you've got to be prepared, that it's going to look nothing like that, or at least not as good quality. GIFs are a format that died and came back, and they have quite limitations, so let's explore them. 

If you want to follow along with this particular exercise, you will find, in your 'Social' folder, in your 'Exercise Files', one called 'Fireworks', drag that on, and in your 'Essential Graphics', go to 'Browse'. I typed in 'free sale', grab that one, change the color of the font, waited for the fonts to load, you can do anything you like. 

So now we want to export it, so with our sequence selected, 'Command M', 'Ctrl M' on a PC, and at the top here where it says Format, pick 'Animated GIF', not that hard. There's no presets, that's the default one. We're going to get it to go to a certain place, I've got, on my Desktop, which I've totally made really messy, I mean, I feel bad about this, I'm going to-- I've made a folder called Fireworks, I'm going to clean that up as soon as this course is finished. It's messy, with my Feng Shui, let's hit 'Save'. 

So what you want to do is, you've only got to play around with video, and you've got these kind of few settings here for a GIF. The things that are most important are the size here and the frame rate, they'll determine what size it is, but also the file size. File size is super important for GIFs, especially this one, it's going out via an emailer, and lots of emails have restrictions, on how big the total size can be, like 10 Megabytes is pretty common, so we need to get it under there. 

So what we're going to do first up is, I'm going to change the size, my particular emailer is going to go out at about 500 pixels, 540 is pretty common for an emailer, that's going to present nicely on lots of different email systems, like Gmail and Outlook, anyway, already we're seeing the quality, kind of come down, it's unfit, so let's go to 100%. 

So we're not looking at it too badly, ah, so bad. GIF format, the reason it looks bad is, because GIFs are only allowed to, you know, they only have 256 colors to play around with, whereas this had millions to start with, it's now trying to do the same thing with 256. So if you really want the quality to be better, what you really need to do is not pick fireworks in the background, that has lots-- that's using all the colors, all the sparkles in the background, so pick something really plain. The nicest animated GIFs are often ones that I, just have a couple of simple bold colors, not fireworks, but hey, we want a sale, and nothing says sale, like fireworks, for some reason, anyway. 

So we've got our size down to what we need for our emailer, now the Frame Rate is the next part, so 25 frames/second is too much for a GIF, it ends up making the file sizes really big, and we need this to slip under the radar for an emailer. Let's start at 25, and we're going to start queuing it up. In Media Encoder, these are one of the joys of using Media Encoder, we can start, because everyone's is going to be different, there's no like, you have to use 10 frames/second, or this size. 

What you need to do for your particular case is, go 'Duplicate', I'm going to have three duplicates of that same one. So I'm going to say, this first one's at 25, this one, I'm going to click 'Custom', and I'm going to say, what does it look like, at 10. Click 'OK', 10 is my default, I use 10 all the time. If you need the long story cut short, just use 10, but it's not an absolute rule, but let's see what it looks like at 5. 

So I've got these three different options, I'm going to hit 'Play', get them all going. All right, it's going to chug through those, let's have a little look at what appears on this other one. There's my folder, so the first one, 25 frames/second, 9.4 Megabytes, just squeezing in the 10 Megabytes. This one here, about 10 frames, and this one here at 5, you can see, quite a substantial file size change, let's have a look. Look at that, basically, like video, except poor colors, looks all right, looks way better than it did inside of Media Encoder. Don't use Media Encoder's preview as a really good gauge of what things are going to look like, remember, in here if we go to Custom, this thing over here is not a great visual. So if you're dragging the quality up and down, it's not changing over here, don't use this, actually, get it done, and get it exported to see what it actually renders like, so, great. 

That's, can you see, do you get the feeling? This feels more animated GIFfy, that's kind of part of the, part of the charm of an animated GIF, is it's like stunted jitteriness. Can you live with 5 frames/second, you might have to, you might need, like 10 of these little animated GIFs in your emailer. Now quality, you can mess around with, the same thing, duplicate it a few times, and let's say that, actually-- I'm going to, remember, 10 was my favorite, or 10 is my favorite now, and you can then say this one plus another couple, and play around with the quality slider, and it will do nothing. I don't know why the quality slider is in there, it's only got 256 colors. I'm not sure what this does, really, my animated GIF knowledge is, not an expert animated GIFfer, but I make a lot of them, I should know more, but you can play around with the quality, and you'll notice, I'm kind of just picking three different sizes, let's go, and let's have a look. 

You shouldn't be able to tell the difference in, maybe it's a bug with my one, come on, Media Encoder, you can do it; stuck. There you go, it's back working again, that was weird. So you can see, they're all the same file size, doesn't matter how quality it is, and they all look the same. Yours might be different, mine never, there you go. If you need the file size to be a teeny tiny bit smaller, you can play around with the size, and, so the physical size, 500. Nobody's going to notice the difference in 40 pixels, obviously, depending on where this is going, but an email, they won't. Quality, 100, because it makes no difference, and over here, the frame rate, you might go, oh, there we go, maybe just a teeny tiny, maybe 10, and eke out some of the file sizes, let's have a look. This last one, is a teeny tiny bit smaller, and probably nobody's going to notice much, in this particular use case, that it is 40 pixels smaller. 

All right, happy animated GIFfing, remember, if you want it to look even better, is to make sure that you use as limited color palette as possible, because remember, we've only got 256 of them, you don't want to waste them on frivolous fireworks. All right, that is going to be it, and in a strange coincidence, it's actually Black Friday, it's not Black Friday, it's just Friday, it's Friday afternoon, I'm finished videoing for the week, going to take the weekend off, I will see you probably in a video in about, I don't know, five seconds, but for me it's going to be a whole Saturday and Sunday off, and I will see you on Monday, or in five seconds, it's the same thing.

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