If you want to please your friends or create a beautiful GIF on the community wall, read the information from the article.
Animation in GIF format are small graphic videos in the anime style that Internet users enjoy using when communicating on social networks. Therefore, VKontakte developers have provided the ability to play this type of file.
The owner of a VKontakte account has the opportunity not only to use GIFs downloaded on the Internet, but also to save others’ ones, and even create his own.
How to use gifs
GIFs are good for more than just wasting your time. They also have more reasonable uses.
- Instead of video. On social networks, videos are usually not expanded to full screen and are watched without sound, so particularly high quality is not required, and GIFs weigh less and load faster. And they play automatically on most sites.
They are also looped, which can be funny.
- And once again instead of video . On sites where it cannot be placed technically. For example, Kikstarter allows you to insert only one video into a project, so further text is usually accompanied by explanatory gifs (in this project, for example).
- Instead of screenshots/photos of the process and long explanations . The phrase “to download a gif file from VKontakte, not an mp4 video, right-click on it, select “Open link in a new tab” from the menu and only save the animation from it” is easily replaced with a simple gif:
- Instead of pictures and illustrations. Nowadays gifs are used to illustrate anything. From serious political analysis to serious and not very scientific articles.
- Like a teaser video. To make users more willing to watch a long video, show them a few GIFs with key points as a primer.
- Instead of emoji . GIFs clearly convey emotions better.
By the way, I used the free iSpring Free Cam program to record video from the screen. And I turned the video into a GIF using the Ezgif.com service. All this took a little over five minutes.
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How to upload gif on VKontakte
You need to add gif animation as follows. Enter the Documents menu section.
If it doesn't exist, you need to configure it. Click the gear next to the menu, or in settings ⇒ General ⇒ Setting menu items.
In the Documents section, click Add document.
Select a file on your computer. The file size limit is 200 MB. After downloading, indicate availability, tags, if necessary, by which the gif file will be available in search.
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Where to look for ready-made gifs
- "In contact with" . On VKontakte, a monstrous number of public pages are dedicated to GIFs. Look for them in the community search for “gif”, “gif”, “gif”. There is also a direct search for GIFs on the social network. When creating a post, select attaching a document, and then in the “Search for Document” line, enter a keyword and a gif tag.
- Reddit . Lots of GIFs collected by thousands of users. By the way, Reddit has several sections with gifs: GIFS – gifs for all occasions.
- Reactiongifs – gifs-emotions.
- Analogygifs – comparison gifs.
- Dancegifs – gifs about dancing.
- Animalgifs – gifs about little animals.
Other ways to find videos
You can search by content, for example:
- According to, if any. We listen, enter phrases into the search engines Yandex and Google.
- If you're searching for an excerpt from a movie and want to see the whole picture, there may be famous actors in the fragment. Find them through a search engine; usually, when describing a biography, information about films with his participation is also posted. Try to choose the most likely option from the names. Sometimes this is difficult to do; the fragment does not fit with any of them. Then you will have to spend more time. Start each movie one by one, rewind them frame by frame. Usually it immediately becomes clear whether this is the right video, for example, by the appearance of the actor; it can be radically different from what is on the fragment.
You can try posting fragments on a universal platform for answers and questions, for example Mail.Ru Answers. Here people ask about anything. Why don't you try it too?
Bad taste
- Animated userpics - they piss everyone off because they distract attention from the text, but do not provide any valuable information.
- Animated cards, pictures, emojis - everything where something moves, but nothing worth attention happens.
- Animated banners are possible, but be careful. It’s bad if something moves on the banner just to attract attention. But it is acceptable if each frame contains additional important information.
- Animated interface elements – modern websites have a lot of animation, but it is created using JavaScript and other software. If you are still using gifs on the site, then you are very behind the times.
How to recognize a person in a video?
In order to recognize the person in the video, we do this:
- With the help of graphic editors, which we have already mentioned above, we make a portrait of what we are looking for, cut it out, adjust it, and adjust it. It's good if the picture quality is high. Upload to Google image. If it's a movie, it will be easier to find, since there are many images of famous actors on the Internet.
- If the video is from a person’s personal archive, you can try to find it on social networks. We take a close-up photo of him from the frame and run it through a search for people by photo.
If you can find the hero of the video, then unwinding the tangle of events will become easier. It’s easier to find information about a specific person, actor, singer on the Internet.
So, we figured out how to find a video by video. It turns out that it is so easy, you need to carry out a number of activities, spend some time, and be patient. Sometimes you have to start small, grab thin threads. But this is even interesting, you can learn so much about a simple video and its fate.
GIFs and social networks
"In contact with"
How to download. To attach a GIF to a post, upload it as a document, not as an image or video, otherwise it won't play.
How to download. This was written above, but I’ll repeat it in case you haven’t noticed. Right-click on the GIF - Open link in new tab - Save image as.
How to download. This social network stubbornly resists the invasion of GIFs. You can upload them there only via a link (and even then not from all resources). If you don't have a link to your favorite GIF, then upload it first to the GIPHY service, as shown below.
How to download. Only in MP4 format. In the Google Chrome browser, right-click on the GIF - View Code. Copy the link and save the video from it.
The shareware service Convertio can convert MP4 to GIF:
How to download. Unfortunately, Instagram does not support GIFs at all. They can be uploaded there only after first converting them to MP4 format. The same GIPHY service can do this. Proceed in the same way as when uploading to Facebook, but at the end, click the Instagram icon and enter your e-mail, where the finished file will be sent.
How to download. Twitter, on the other hand, does not create obstacles at all. GIFs are uploaded there simply as photographs.
How to download. The same method as with Facebook.
"Classmates"
How to download. Just like a photo.
How to download. The same method as with Facebook.
Looking for videos on forums
So, you have acquired a screenshot of a precious video. We are trying to find its original. We turn to participants in thematic forums for help, create a new topic or look at existing ones, and ask questions.
- Forum.ee.
- Forum for those looking for a video clip:
https://forum.dancesport.ru/.
- Search for videos from TV programs, commercials https://mp3forum.com.ua/.
Insert your pictures into messages, ask people. This will allow you not only to learn more about your video, but also to have a good time and chat. If you don't know how to insert your screenshot in the forum, use the following tips:
- Save it in any graphic editor, the most used is MS Paint, in photo format - jpeg, gif.
- Give it a name.
- Specify a save location.
- Attach your file to a forum post.
- When choosing the type of document you want to post, for example, on a social network, click on the photo, this is the format in which you saved it.
Such searches may well be crowned with success, you just need to have a little patience and you will find a person on the forum who knows where this frame was taken from.
Lastly. A little about copyright
GIFs have one more advantage over regular pictures - they are free. On the other hand, the law clearly prohibits public reproduction of a video in whole or in part without the consent of the author.
And although you can quote any work for scientific purposes, you are unlikely to be able to prove that you posted a GIF of John Travolta on VKontakte solely for the benefit of science.
On the third hand, I could not find cases where anyone was seriously sued over the copyright of a gif.
Moral: the decision whether to use other people's GIFs or not, as usual, remains on your conscience.
How to find a video using keywords?
Tubenoia can also help when searching by words - it also allows you to search for a video using key phrases. The only negative is that everything is written in English, but anyone with at least a little knowledge of the language can figure it out.
As a last resort, you can use online translators.
- To search for video material using specific phrases and words, you will need the “Video Scraper” menu button in the “From keywords” window that opens.
- Another window will pop up in front of you, in the top field of which you will need to enter the same words.
- The search will begin after pressing the “Scrape” button.
- The program will display a set of links where the desired combination of words is found.
- Use them on YouTube.
Create a gif yourself
Sharing popular images is cool, of course. But the highest aerobatics will be sharing GIFs created by yourself. VKontakte launched an application to make a GIF from an online video - https://vk.com/gifcreator.
You need to do the following:
- upload video to the application;
- select a period of video to edit;
- specify the image size;
- click “Create animation”;
- Upon completion of the procedure, click “Get link”. Without this, the GIF will be deleted from the application archive after some time.
- You can share the received link with your friends, GIF - animation will appear on your wall.
As you can see, everything is very simple. I hope the question of how to add a GIF to VK has been resolved.
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Good luck!
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Yes, you may ask, why are they called GIFs? The answer is simple, this word comes from the name of the file extension - gif.
Previously, when loading animated GIFs on VKontakte, the animation disappeared, and friends saw a static picture without animation. Of course, the effect of such a picture was lost.
Now on VK there are so many gifs of various topics that you don’t have to download them, but search for them and add them to yourself.
This is done as follows:
However, there are situations when you need to download a certain animated picture that you have on your computer. Then, exactly as described above, go to the documents section, but do not enter anything into the search, but click on the icon to the right of the search - add a document.
We upload the image in the usual way, that is, we find it on the computer, then indicate another document.
How to add a GIF to a wall
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Not long ago I wrote an article about today we will talk about what can be done with this animation. That is, we will add gifs to our documents, on the wall, or send them as a message to a friend or simply another VKontakte user.
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