Make GIF

Among all types of multimedia files that make the Internet a popular place, one in particular managed to suddenly attract the attention of the majority, and that’s the GIF animation. It’s a rapid slideshow of multiple frames, but also lightweight to be buffered quickly. For instance, you can grab screen activity in the form of a GIF with Make GIF.

The effortless process process you need to go through to install the application only lasts for a while, but you need to be sure that .NET Framework is a part of windows for it to work. When you’re done, the main window can be brought up, simple enough to quickly get you up and running.

A preview area repeatedly plays a GIF animation so you get an idea of what can be accomplished. Accompanying it, you find instructions for what needs to be done to prepare the recording area. This configuration only takes two steps, moment after which the option to start the session becomes available.

The application’s main window doesn’t automatically minimize itself, so you need to get it out of the way yourself, in case it’s interfering with the recording area you specified. However, you do need to bring it up at one point to stop, because there’s no hotkey assigned to this function.

Once you manage to stop Make GIF from recording, you’re only halfway through with the whole operation. In a new prompt, the animation is assembled frame by frame, and it can take quite a while for large areas or really lengthy recordings. Sadly, this process does not include an editor, which would have been useful to chop off a few frames in which the main window intervened.

All things considered, we can safely state that Make GIF wants to provide the option to record screen activity into the popular GIF file format. Customization options only include setting the capture area, which can prove a difficult task, while the building of the file itself becomes a frustration, because of the amount of time it takes.