How to use the Animated Gif Editor / Gif Animator

The Gif Recorder software has many unique features that help you make screen recordings and animations in the gif format.

• Gif Screen Recorder: record anything happening on your screen saving it to a gif file.
• Use the Gif Recorder as animated gif converter
• Add subtitles to your animated gif
• Make HTML page with Gif Start & Stop
• Make HTML page with Gif and Audio
• Resize gif animation
• Convert Gif to AVI to publish on YouTube

The below recording walks through the Animated Gif Editor / Gif Animator application. Below it is a detailed reference.

The Animated Gif Editor provides you with all tools needed to prepare your animated gifs for publishing. The editor consists essenially of four areas: Image List (left), Image Pane, Toolbar and Status bar.

Toolbar

The toolbar is the area most actions of the editor start from:

• New, Open or Record Gif Animation
• Switch between Gif animation and Image view 
• Add new images
• Remove images
• Edit image using MS Paint
• Add subtitles to your animated gif
• Set Gif Repetitions
• Export image frames

Image List

The image (frame) list has four columns:

• Time: indicates after how many seconds of running the film the image appears. You will use it's value when you add subtitles to your animated gif to determine the correct start time for a given subtitle.
• Delay: the amount of time in seconds a frame is displayed before it moves to the next.
• Disposal: what to do with the current image being displayed when moving to the next.
  This column is hidden by default as in most cases you will have no reason to work with it.
• Subtitle: This column only appears if you add subtitles to your animated gif. 

The shortcut menu (right-click) gives access to an additional set of actions:

• Change Delay
• Change or View Disposal Method
• Move image in list

Image Pane

The Image Pane shows either the animation or the last image you clicked on. See also: Switch between Gif animation and Image view.

Status bar

  Opening, saving and recalculating an animated gif are actions that may take some time to finish, especially with larger images. The progress meter gives feedback on what part of the job was done and how much still needs to be done. It is located in the status bar at the bottom of the screen.