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2024 Approved 8 Best Free Photo Collage with Music Video Maker
8 Best Free Photo Collage with Music Video Maker
8 Free Photo Collage with Music Video Maker
An easy yet powerful editor
Numerous effects to choose from
Detailed tutorials provided by the official channel
It is definitely possible Usually, people use video collage makers for this reason. But you can also create an actual photo collage with music as well (no need to use actual video clips if you don’t want to.)
In the end, it all depends on the collage maker you’re using to be completely honest. In this case, the collage maker in question would have to have video editing functionalities advanced enough to allow you to create a video consisting of a picture collage with music Learn more about the different tools that you can check out below as we break down some of the best of the best available
01 Wondershare Filmora Video Editor
The first of the video makers that we’re going to be introducing is called Filmora. This is a professional editor that’s equipped with just about everything you need for creating high-quality video content. That includes the things that you will need in order to create a music photo collage
For your reference, that means that you can use it to create a video showing off a picture collage with music. Usually by making use of the templates provided by the software and uploading your own images (although, in the newest version of Filmora, Filmora V11, there is a ‘Stock Media’ option that includes an endless supply of photographs, videos, music, etc. for adding to your content.)
For Win 7 or later (64-bit)
For macOS 10.12 or later
02 Canva
Canva is really more of a photo editor than anything else. But it has a timeline function that you can use for more advanced things. Which, in this case, would be creating a picture collage with music
Note, just like with Filmora, Canva is not an entirely FREE program. But it is free to try. And, just like Filmora, it comes with a stock media library that you can use as a resource for your projects (i.e., images, clip arts, etc.) Canva also comes with a Pro version that you can unlock if you want some of its more advanced features (highly recommended if you’re looking to create content for work or entrepreneurial reasons and not just for posting on social media. Especially since it will allow you to collaborate with others.)
03 Express It
You can say that “Express It” is Adobe’s version of Canva. It is available as an online tool and as a photo collage with music app that you can use for your smartphone or tablet.
Much like with Canva, this program has a built-in stock media library that you can use for your projects. It’s also primarily FREE to use, although you’ll need to pay in order to unlock some of its more advanced resources. It comes with the usual layouts for creating quick templates, but it’s most prized for its ‘free-style’ mode, which will allow you to create a collage that looks exactly how you want it to look.
04 Smilebox
Smilebox is an automatic video collage maker that is capable of turning photographs into a video collage without much input from you It’s the tool to use if all you’re looking for is a quick solution. By that, we of course mean the solution of the ‘upload-and-then-download’ variety
It is also an online tool, so Sign-Up is required. But once you’re signed up, the only thing you really have to do is provide the images that you want to use for your music photo collage
05 Fotojet
Next is ‘Fotojet’, which is an online collage maker that is incredibly popular for those that are looking for an easy solution. It works pretty much how you expect a collage maker to work. You choose from a list of ‘collage layouts’, choose the images that you want to place in the layout that you’ve chosen, pick out your music, maybe decorate the pic collage a bit (for example, you can add text, clipart stickers, etc.) and then you’re done
Much like some of the programs on this list, Fotojet isn’t an entirely free music photo collage tool. However, a FREE trial is available if you want to try it out for a quick project or two.
06 Vimeo
Video is a professional online photo editing tool that’s incredibly popular with entrepreneurs. It actually works very similarly with all the other tools that we’ve introduced so far. That means that it comes with templates that you can use in order to create projects, it also comes with a ‘resources’ library that you can take advantage of in order to fill up said projects
As for creating a photo collage with music by using this tool. You will need to sign up to start creating, but it’s FREE to try — with some elements locked under the premium version.
07 Kapwing
KapWing is exactly what it looks like, it’s an online photo editor The best part about it is that it comes with quick collage layouts that you can use and the usual resources library. The layouts in question are customizable, allowing you to control what your music photo collages look like in the end. You also have the choice of creating said collage with photos, videos, GIFs, and music
08 VEED.IO
Similar to KapWing, VEED.IO offers a video collage maker that comes with customizable layouts that you can use to easily create a pic collage with music. The program is of course also free to try (though certain elements are locked in the FREE version).
● Key Takeaways from This Episode →
● Collages are a fun way to preserve memories of a fun event with friends and families Traditionally, of course, photo collages were created with printed still images.
● Now, however, not only can you create a moving collage (with images, videos, GIFs, etc.) but you can even add music to it
● These types of music photo collages are really fun to share with friends and family online. And, these days, there are even digital picture frames that will allow you to display them in your home (and yes, some of these picture frames do come with speakers for playing music)
It is definitely possible Usually, people use video collage makers for this reason. But you can also create an actual photo collage with music as well (no need to use actual video clips if you don’t want to.)
In the end, it all depends on the collage maker you’re using to be completely honest. In this case, the collage maker in question would have to have video editing functionalities advanced enough to allow you to create a video consisting of a picture collage with music Learn more about the different tools that you can check out below as we break down some of the best of the best available
01 Wondershare Filmora Video Editor
The first of the video makers that we’re going to be introducing is called Filmora. This is a professional editor that’s equipped with just about everything you need for creating high-quality video content. That includes the things that you will need in order to create a music photo collage
For your reference, that means that you can use it to create a video showing off a picture collage with music. Usually by making use of the templates provided by the software and uploading your own images (although, in the newest version of Filmora, Filmora V11, there is a ‘Stock Media’ option that includes an endless supply of photographs, videos, music, etc. for adding to your content.)
For Win 7 or later (64-bit)
For macOS 10.12 or later
02 Canva
Canva is really more of a photo editor than anything else. But it has a timeline function that you can use for more advanced things. Which, in this case, would be creating a picture collage with music
Note, just like with Filmora, Canva is not an entirely FREE program. But it is free to try. And, just like Filmora, it comes with a stock media library that you can use as a resource for your projects (i.e., images, clip arts, etc.) Canva also comes with a Pro version that you can unlock if you want some of its more advanced features (highly recommended if you’re looking to create content for work or entrepreneurial reasons and not just for posting on social media. Especially since it will allow you to collaborate with others.)
03 Express It
You can say that “Express It” is Adobe’s version of Canva. It is available as an online tool and as a photo collage with music app that you can use for your smartphone or tablet.
Much like with Canva, this program has a built-in stock media library that you can use for your projects. It’s also primarily FREE to use, although you’ll need to pay in order to unlock some of its more advanced resources. It comes with the usual layouts for creating quick templates, but it’s most prized for its ‘free-style’ mode, which will allow you to create a collage that looks exactly how you want it to look.
04 Smilebox
Smilebox is an automatic video collage maker that is capable of turning photographs into a video collage without much input from you It’s the tool to use if all you’re looking for is a quick solution. By that, we of course mean the solution of the ‘upload-and-then-download’ variety
It is also an online tool, so Sign-Up is required. But once you’re signed up, the only thing you really have to do is provide the images that you want to use for your music photo collage
05 Fotojet
Next is ‘Fotojet’, which is an online collage maker that is incredibly popular for those that are looking for an easy solution. It works pretty much how you expect a collage maker to work. You choose from a list of ‘collage layouts’, choose the images that you want to place in the layout that you’ve chosen, pick out your music, maybe decorate the pic collage a bit (for example, you can add text, clipart stickers, etc.) and then you’re done
Much like some of the programs on this list, Fotojet isn’t an entirely free music photo collage tool. However, a FREE trial is available if you want to try it out for a quick project or two.
06 Vimeo
Video is a professional online photo editing tool that’s incredibly popular with entrepreneurs. It actually works very similarly with all the other tools that we’ve introduced so far. That means that it comes with templates that you can use in order to create projects, it also comes with a ‘resources’ library that you can take advantage of in order to fill up said projects
As for creating a photo collage with music by using this tool. You will need to sign up to start creating, but it’s FREE to try — with some elements locked under the premium version.
07 Kapwing
KapWing is exactly what it looks like, it’s an online photo editor The best part about it is that it comes with quick collage layouts that you can use and the usual resources library. The layouts in question are customizable, allowing you to control what your music photo collages look like in the end. You also have the choice of creating said collage with photos, videos, GIFs, and music
08 VEED.IO
Similar to KapWing, VEED.IO offers a video collage maker that comes with customizable layouts that you can use to easily create a pic collage with music. The program is of course also free to try (though certain elements are locked in the FREE version).
● Key Takeaways from This Episode →
● Collages are a fun way to preserve memories of a fun event with friends and families Traditionally, of course, photo collages were created with printed still images.
● Now, however, not only can you create a moving collage (with images, videos, GIFs, etc.) but you can even add music to it
● These types of music photo collages are really fun to share with friends and family online. And, these days, there are even digital picture frames that will allow you to display them in your home (and yes, some of these picture frames do come with speakers for playing music)
It is definitely possible Usually, people use video collage makers for this reason. But you can also create an actual photo collage with music as well (no need to use actual video clips if you don’t want to.)
In the end, it all depends on the collage maker you’re using to be completely honest. In this case, the collage maker in question would have to have video editing functionalities advanced enough to allow you to create a video consisting of a picture collage with music Learn more about the different tools that you can check out below as we break down some of the best of the best available
01 Wondershare Filmora Video Editor
The first of the video makers that we’re going to be introducing is called Filmora. This is a professional editor that’s equipped with just about everything you need for creating high-quality video content. That includes the things that you will need in order to create a music photo collage
For your reference, that means that you can use it to create a video showing off a picture collage with music. Usually by making use of the templates provided by the software and uploading your own images (although, in the newest version of Filmora, Filmora V11, there is a ‘Stock Media’ option that includes an endless supply of photographs, videos, music, etc. for adding to your content.)
For Win 7 or later (64-bit)
For macOS 10.12 or later
02 Canva
Canva is really more of a photo editor than anything else. But it has a timeline function that you can use for more advanced things. Which, in this case, would be creating a picture collage with music
Note, just like with Filmora, Canva is not an entirely FREE program. But it is free to try. And, just like Filmora, it comes with a stock media library that you can use as a resource for your projects (i.e., images, clip arts, etc.) Canva also comes with a Pro version that you can unlock if you want some of its more advanced features (highly recommended if you’re looking to create content for work or entrepreneurial reasons and not just for posting on social media. Especially since it will allow you to collaborate with others.)
03 Express It
You can say that “Express It” is Adobe’s version of Canva. It is available as an online tool and as a photo collage with music app that you can use for your smartphone or tablet.
Much like with Canva, this program has a built-in stock media library that you can use for your projects. It’s also primarily FREE to use, although you’ll need to pay in order to unlock some of its more advanced resources. It comes with the usual layouts for creating quick templates, but it’s most prized for its ‘free-style’ mode, which will allow you to create a collage that looks exactly how you want it to look.
04 Smilebox
Smilebox is an automatic video collage maker that is capable of turning photographs into a video collage without much input from you It’s the tool to use if all you’re looking for is a quick solution. By that, we of course mean the solution of the ‘upload-and-then-download’ variety
It is also an online tool, so Sign-Up is required. But once you’re signed up, the only thing you really have to do is provide the images that you want to use for your music photo collage
05 Fotojet
Next is ‘Fotojet’, which is an online collage maker that is incredibly popular for those that are looking for an easy solution. It works pretty much how you expect a collage maker to work. You choose from a list of ‘collage layouts’, choose the images that you want to place in the layout that you’ve chosen, pick out your music, maybe decorate the pic collage a bit (for example, you can add text, clipart stickers, etc.) and then you’re done
Much like some of the programs on this list, Fotojet isn’t an entirely free music photo collage tool. However, a FREE trial is available if you want to try it out for a quick project or two.
06 Vimeo
Video is a professional online photo editing tool that’s incredibly popular with entrepreneurs. It actually works very similarly with all the other tools that we’ve introduced so far. That means that it comes with templates that you can use in order to create projects, it also comes with a ‘resources’ library that you can take advantage of in order to fill up said projects
As for creating a photo collage with music by using this tool. You will need to sign up to start creating, but it’s FREE to try — with some elements locked under the premium version.
07 Kapwing
KapWing is exactly what it looks like, it’s an online photo editor The best part about it is that it comes with quick collage layouts that you can use and the usual resources library. The layouts in question are customizable, allowing you to control what your music photo collages look like in the end. You also have the choice of creating said collage with photos, videos, GIFs, and music
08 VEED.IO
Similar to KapWing, VEED.IO offers a video collage maker that comes with customizable layouts that you can use to easily create a pic collage with music. The program is of course also free to try (though certain elements are locked in the FREE version).
● Key Takeaways from This Episode →
● Collages are a fun way to preserve memories of a fun event with friends and families Traditionally, of course, photo collages were created with printed still images.
● Now, however, not only can you create a moving collage (with images, videos, GIFs, etc.) but you can even add music to it
● These types of music photo collages are really fun to share with friends and family online. And, these days, there are even digital picture frames that will allow you to display them in your home (and yes, some of these picture frames do come with speakers for playing music)
It is definitely possible Usually, people use video collage makers for this reason. But you can also create an actual photo collage with music as well (no need to use actual video clips if you don’t want to.)
In the end, it all depends on the collage maker you’re using to be completely honest. In this case, the collage maker in question would have to have video editing functionalities advanced enough to allow you to create a video consisting of a picture collage with music Learn more about the different tools that you can check out below as we break down some of the best of the best available
01 Wondershare Filmora Video Editor
The first of the video makers that we’re going to be introducing is called Filmora. This is a professional editor that’s equipped with just about everything you need for creating high-quality video content. That includes the things that you will need in order to create a music photo collage
For your reference, that means that you can use it to create a video showing off a picture collage with music. Usually by making use of the templates provided by the software and uploading your own images (although, in the newest version of Filmora, Filmora V11, there is a ‘Stock Media’ option that includes an endless supply of photographs, videos, music, etc. for adding to your content.)
For Win 7 or later (64-bit)
For macOS 10.12 or later
02 Canva
Canva is really more of a photo editor than anything else. But it has a timeline function that you can use for more advanced things. Which, in this case, would be creating a picture collage with music
Note, just like with Filmora, Canva is not an entirely FREE program. But it is free to try. And, just like Filmora, it comes with a stock media library that you can use as a resource for your projects (i.e., images, clip arts, etc.) Canva also comes with a Pro version that you can unlock if you want some of its more advanced features (highly recommended if you’re looking to create content for work or entrepreneurial reasons and not just for posting on social media. Especially since it will allow you to collaborate with others.)
03 Express It
You can say that “Express It” is Adobe’s version of Canva. It is available as an online tool and as a photo collage with music app that you can use for your smartphone or tablet.
Much like with Canva, this program has a built-in stock media library that you can use for your projects. It’s also primarily FREE to use, although you’ll need to pay in order to unlock some of its more advanced resources. It comes with the usual layouts for creating quick templates, but it’s most prized for its ‘free-style’ mode, which will allow you to create a collage that looks exactly how you want it to look.
04 Smilebox
Smilebox is an automatic video collage maker that is capable of turning photographs into a video collage without much input from you It’s the tool to use if all you’re looking for is a quick solution. By that, we of course mean the solution of the ‘upload-and-then-download’ variety
It is also an online tool, so Sign-Up is required. But once you’re signed up, the only thing you really have to do is provide the images that you want to use for your music photo collage
05 Fotojet
Next is ‘Fotojet’, which is an online collage maker that is incredibly popular for those that are looking for an easy solution. It works pretty much how you expect a collage maker to work. You choose from a list of ‘collage layouts’, choose the images that you want to place in the layout that you’ve chosen, pick out your music, maybe decorate the pic collage a bit (for example, you can add text, clipart stickers, etc.) and then you’re done
Much like some of the programs on this list, Fotojet isn’t an entirely free music photo collage tool. However, a FREE trial is available if you want to try it out for a quick project or two.
06 Vimeo
Video is a professional online photo editing tool that’s incredibly popular with entrepreneurs. It actually works very similarly with all the other tools that we’ve introduced so far. That means that it comes with templates that you can use in order to create projects, it also comes with a ‘resources’ library that you can take advantage of in order to fill up said projects
As for creating a photo collage with music by using this tool. You will need to sign up to start creating, but it’s FREE to try — with some elements locked under the premium version.
07 Kapwing
KapWing is exactly what it looks like, it’s an online photo editor The best part about it is that it comes with quick collage layouts that you can use and the usual resources library. The layouts in question are customizable, allowing you to control what your music photo collages look like in the end. You also have the choice of creating said collage with photos, videos, GIFs, and music
08 VEED.IO
Similar to KapWing, VEED.IO offers a video collage maker that comes with customizable layouts that you can use to easily create a pic collage with music. The program is of course also free to try (though certain elements are locked in the FREE version).
● Key Takeaways from This Episode →
● Collages are a fun way to preserve memories of a fun event with friends and families Traditionally, of course, photo collages were created with printed still images.
● Now, however, not only can you create a moving collage (with images, videos, GIFs, etc.) but you can even add music to it
● These types of music photo collages are really fun to share with friends and family online. And, these days, there are even digital picture frames that will allow you to display them in your home (and yes, some of these picture frames do come with speakers for playing music)
The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need to Learn GIF Design That Get Shared Like Crazy
The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need to Learn GIF Design That Get Shared Like Crazy
An easy yet powerful editor
Numerous effects to choose from
Detailed tutorials provided by the official channel
The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need to Learn GIF Design That Get Shared Like Crazy
In this article
01 [8 Principles for Great GIF Design](#Part 1)
02 [6 Amazing Examples of Animated Gifs in Web Design](#Part 2)
03 [Learn How to Create and Add Gifs to Interactive Layouts in Filmora](#Part 3)
Part 1 Principles for Great GIF Design
Creating GIFs for infotainment or casual information sharing is the current talk of the trend. You might have visibly landed across a heap of tantalizing GIFs in blogs, social media posts, product promotion websites and almost every other domain you can possibly think of. Using GIFs for any type of content promotion is bound to captivate the target audience in impressive multiplicities. Ever wondered what’s the cue behind the mass appeal that GIFs create? Well, an obvious answer is the stunning GIF design.
When going for GIF creation and selection, design plays the key role in creating considerable buzz about the information being transmitted. To add impact to your creation, you need to pay considerable attention to its design implications, thus ensuring that the right things get presented in the right way. Outlined below are some amazing principles you can use to enhance your GIF design to the next level:
01Ensure Accuracy and Preciseness
The primary concern you need to be attentive about while designing a GIF is its preciseness. Ensure ban exactness of information and confine your creation to the theme and requirement of your creation, like, the message you want to deliver or the impact you want to create through the GIF. Balance your creativity within specific content parameters and avoid getting carried away or overdoing on the beautifying aspect.
As an example, it is visibly not appealing to add a wholesome mix of 15 shades and 20 different elements in a nature-based GIF. You will end up getting too harsh on the viewers’ eyes, confusing them with a hoard of speeding elements and banging colors. You can instead stick to 2 or 3 frames with an intelligent mix of 2 complementary shades.
02Maintain Visual Identity
An important aspect to keep in mind while attempting to design GIF is, it should visually relate to the underlying content. For instance, if you are intending a brand promotion through your GIF, lay stress on adding elements like, brand definition, product specifications, know-how of your work patterns, etc. ensure that your content flows naturally and has exactness.
Other alternatives are, using your product logo as the GIF background, character representation of your brand or using some explicit product oriented themes. While, you are free to pick anything that suits your preferences and needs, just make sure that using it in your GIF adds value to your brand instead of giving an out of the box feel.
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03Cut Down on Unnecessary Frames
Have you ever encountered a halt in the natural loop of your GIF out of nowhere? While pondering over the underlying cause, it is a common assumption to take this as an animation fallacy, but that’s evidently not the case. The actual culprits behind this glitch are those extra frames that contribute towards nothing but adding weight to an already heavy file.
To set this straight, you should switch to removing any extra frames, while saving a particular one which you may stretch to a desired duration according to the break point of your contents in the GIF. However, take caution to maintain the visual quality of your GIF while you remove those extra frames.
04Make Your GIF Accessible
You should always adhere to the concern of accessibility while creating a GIF. The reason being, your content is visibly going to get mass attention across the web and you cannot filter out visitors, make sure your GIF is easily accessible to all kind of users, particularly those with vision limitations, like, epileptic patients or the ones using screen readers.
Focus on describing your GIF content with alt text and using a limited blinking and flashing rate. In case your GIF content is primarily text based, take care to limit the effective color and image movement and adjust the frames rates to avoid constant and quick movement of image frames when adding many clips on a single page.
Pay additional heed to the auto play feature of your GIFs. It can be visibly annoying to be welcomed on a site homepage with GIFs enjoying an auto play session of their own. You can alternatively, incorporate a ‘Click to Play’ option or grant your site visitors the liberty to decide on what is to be played when.
05Use Storyboards
When aiming to create visibly appealing GIFs, you need to lay considerable stress on choosing an apt background story. Don’t get misled by the wrong assumption of using any random background, owing to the short play duration of GIFs. An impressive solution to this concern is taking the help of a storyboard to keep track of your GIF’s content flow.
Using a storyboard is quite effective means of being in line with the direction of content movement, rescuing you from the hustle of going off the track. This comes explicitly handy when you are working with a team of creators. The storyboard is there to keep everything at the exact place, thus improving member communications and boosting up the design process.
06Focus on Creating Loops
Consider creating an animated motion loop for your GIF allowing a repeated and comprehensive view of your content. Looping projects a deeper observation of the clip and its contents in a seamless transition. However, creating an infinite motion loop in GIFs is quite tricky, as you need to pay utmost concern to ensure a smooth content flow and chances of even the slightest errors are not entertained.
Any loopholes in placement of your GIF elements will get noticed within a blink and lead to an unsatisfactory user experience. Hence, you need to check each of your content frames separately to eliminate chances of possible errors. If you are a beginner, try working with geometrical animations to get the initial pickup. This will be advantageous in deciding the exact element positions at the start and end of the GIF.
07Make Use of Motion Blur
Using the concept of motion blur is pivotal in providing a natural flow and feel to your GIF, which, in an otherwise case would ordinarily appear as a mere collection of static images clubbed together. This would give a wobbling feel with unsteady frame movements to your viewers. The motion blur effect potentially ensures a smooth content flow, and your GIF looks like a short video captured from a camera.
08Stick to a Reduced File Size
Creating GIF of within a standard size range is quite difficult, owing to the fact that these are shared across a variety of media platforms, each having a different file size constraint. It is, however, recommended to stick to a file size as low as possible to escape the notch of modifying the same, ener5y time you need to work with the GIF on a different platform.
Listed below are a few ways to limit your GIF to a lower file size:
● Restrict your GIF to a frame count under 150, exceeding which, it will get difficult to export the GIF to most of the commonly visited social media and content sharing platforms.
● When your GIF is ready to export, adjust its lossy parameter between 5 and 10 to boost the file compression rate. Look for a setting that decreases the effective file size without compromising with the overall GIF design.
● Restrict to a minimum possible color usage. This will not only intensify the GIF design, but also contribute in maintaining a decreased file size. You can instead, focus on playing with animations or adjusting your image frames to longer play durations.
● Don’t experiment with multiple background gradients in your GIF. You can select from either a completely opaque, or a totally transparent background. Adding unnecessary gradients will end up giving your GIF a hazy look, along with a visibly large file that will be difficult to export non any platform.
Part 2 Amazing Examples of Animated Gifs in Web Design
GIFs are an effective means of adding appeal to brand promotions and achieving improved market buildup by delivering just the right content in the most captivating and interesting ways. You can use them as creative web design tools to add spark to your product sites, which can potentially boost the market value and reach of your product by multiplying the number of visitors to your site.
Discussed below are some stunning examples of using animated GIFs to enhance commercial web design, which you can use to create a significant buzz about your product among a target audience:
01Marie Weber
This is a shoe designer company in France, famous for its classy, handmade shoes. On visiting the company’s site, you are welcomed by a simple and subtle, animated product logo on each page. This animated logo is a masterpiece in itself, telling you the about the lavishness of the associated product.
On navigating further, you will find animated elements, like; shoe images and collection names, which appear on the screen before a zoom out. There are underlined links that pop up to animate beneath the name, indicating the link you are going to visit.
02Wonderful Weekends Festival
This is an absolute animation delight, where the welcome page of the site greets you with vibrant pieces in motion, and a pop up box informs you of the festival’s arrival time and asks you to select one from the options of ‘Play Now’ or ‘Show Me the Festival’.
As you click to make a choice, the Google brand shines with associated colors. As you continue to browse through the site, pages open up with brand color animations, along with colored active links flashing on the pages.
03Google
This is a brand name that needs no introduction. Google has launched its ‘Your Plan, Your Planet’ site to infuse awareness about environment conservation and eco friendly lifestyles, guiding visitors on ways and means of introducing related changes. The site greets you with a simple layout, with a short text moving in and getting still. Click on ‘Let’s Get Started’ and you will see 4 amazingly animated icons that open up to more vibrant animations.
Tap any one of the swinging refrigerator door, the illuminated light bulb, the running faucet or the teddy bear waving at you, to land on a schema that informs you about effective means of improving on conservation in within your selected section. This is a perfect example of using animations as a marketing strategy to captivate people’s attention on a subject that evidently turns them off.
04Pete Nottage
Designed explicitly as a hiring site for voice presenter Pete Nottage, this website tells you everything about the actor and the credibility of hiring him. The site lands among the best examples of web animation usage. The welcome page of the site greets you with the brand logo. Tap on the red swipe and you will get to know that the brand infuses vibrancy to something that’s originally dull.
Next, you will find a plethora of dynamic and elegant animations in a plying plane, cityscape, flowing sea and sailing boats, moving cars and excusive motion graphics on each building. Visiting the animated site links provides you an insight of the actor’s personality. In the ‘About’ section, you can find a headshot animation, that disappears on clicking, and is followed by a more dynamic motion snippet.
05Zamzar
This one is an online file conversion site and lives up to its tagline ‘File Conversion Made Easy’ through a concrete animation on the welcome page. The file conversion on this site is quick, 3-step process, with a blinking animation indicating the current conversion stage.
For instance, when you are at the first step of selecting a file to convert, the animation shoes a blinking glow on number 1. This continues for the rest of the steps, till your file is finally converted into the desired file format.
06Blizzard: Warcraft III Reforged
Warcraft was one complete heaven of adventure and thrill for console gamers. While the enticing cutscenes with stunning motion graphics were an absolute favorite, the game had a plenty of other exciting elements.
The relaunched game (Warcraft III Reforged) website has a mix of gaming adventures and cutscenes running in the site’s background with the game title and pitch appearing as an overlaid animation. On navigating through the site, you will find classy animated elements that take you on a nostalgic trip of the original game.
Part 3 Learn How to Create and Add Gifs to Interactive Layouts in Filmora
Now that you are quite familiar with the utility of GIFs in almost every market field, and have seen stunning examples of GIF design and usage for an impressive brand promotion, let’s take a dive into creating and using these motion clips to make interactive graphic layouts for websites, social media blogs and posts, and a variety of other applications that require some brilliant imagery for market promotion.
When looking for the perfect GIF designer software, Wondershare Filmora Video Editor is the most affordable pick. This is a free and an enhanced GIF design tool, packed with world class and premium quality features that are most suitable for giving the much appreciated professional touch to your graphic artwork. Here’s how you can work with Filmora to make alluring graphic layouts:
Step 1: Launch Filmora
The software is readily compatible to your Windows and MacOS devices and you don’t even require a signup to use the application. Just download and install the software in your preferred device and launch the same to reach the software’s welcome interface.
Filmora Free Download Link:
Step 2: Upload Media Files
Select and import the desired media files from your device to upload them to the Filmora timeline. You can either pick a video or choose a series of static images.
Step 3: Add to Timeline
Once imported, you need to add the selected files to the software’s editor timeline. You can use the ‘Drag and Drop’ method to get this done.
Wondershare Filmora - Best Video Editor for Mac/Windows
5,481,435 people have downloaded it.
Build unique custom animations without breaking a sweat.
Focus on creating epic stories and leave the details to Filmora’s auto features.
Start a creative adventure with drag & drop effects and endless possibilities.
Filmora simplifies advanced features to save you time and effort.
Filmora cuts out repetition so you can move on to your next creative breakthrough.
Step 4: Explore Your Editing Skills
As already stated, the Filmora effects library is an extensive inventory of stunning features to compliment your artwork with matchless class. You are free to choose from tons of image and video editing effects and filters suited to your GIF content to create excellent pieces of graphic art.
When starting to customize your GIF in Filmora, you can begin with cropping and trimming your images or video to the perfect part, or even cut and split them to ward off unwanted portions, or rotate and flip the images to set them in the perfect orientation.
You can further add elements like, graphic transitions, overlays, animations and texts, and etc., to customize your artwork to your heart’s content. The software’s audio-visual library facilitates you with around 300 audio-visual effects and music choices to supplement your creation with a conducive sound feel. You can also make adjustments in frame speed and play durations to get the best most snippet ever!
You are granted the liberty to choose almost any common file format to create and customize GIFs in Filmora. A more convincing feature is, the software does not leave a watermark on your artwork and you can easily share your creation across media platforms.
Step 5: Save and Export
Once your creation satisfies you, save it to your device with a .gif extension, from where it can be exported to various media sharing platforms with ease.
● Key Takeaways from This Episode →
● When planning a perfect and appealing product marketing strategy, you can consider using GIFs to enhance the feel. Complement your product site with suitable GIF design and graphic transitions can prove pivotal to target and hold your related audience.
● Looking for the best GIF creator and customization software, you can rely on Filmora to create and customize professional quality GIFs with utmost convenience.
The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need to Learn GIF Design That Get Shared Like Crazy
In this article
01 [8 Principles for Great GIF Design](#Part 1)
02 [6 Amazing Examples of Animated Gifs in Web Design](#Part 2)
03 [Learn How to Create and Add Gifs to Interactive Layouts in Filmora](#Part 3)
Part 1 Principles for Great GIF Design
Creating GIFs for infotainment or casual information sharing is the current talk of the trend. You might have visibly landed across a heap of tantalizing GIFs in blogs, social media posts, product promotion websites and almost every other domain you can possibly think of. Using GIFs for any type of content promotion is bound to captivate the target audience in impressive multiplicities. Ever wondered what’s the cue behind the mass appeal that GIFs create? Well, an obvious answer is the stunning GIF design.
When going for GIF creation and selection, design plays the key role in creating considerable buzz about the information being transmitted. To add impact to your creation, you need to pay considerable attention to its design implications, thus ensuring that the right things get presented in the right way. Outlined below are some amazing principles you can use to enhance your GIF design to the next level:
01Ensure Accuracy and Preciseness
The primary concern you need to be attentive about while designing a GIF is its preciseness. Ensure ban exactness of information and confine your creation to the theme and requirement of your creation, like, the message you want to deliver or the impact you want to create through the GIF. Balance your creativity within specific content parameters and avoid getting carried away or overdoing on the beautifying aspect.
As an example, it is visibly not appealing to add a wholesome mix of 15 shades and 20 different elements in a nature-based GIF. You will end up getting too harsh on the viewers’ eyes, confusing them with a hoard of speeding elements and banging colors. You can instead stick to 2 or 3 frames with an intelligent mix of 2 complementary shades.
02Maintain Visual Identity
An important aspect to keep in mind while attempting to design GIF is, it should visually relate to the underlying content. For instance, if you are intending a brand promotion through your GIF, lay stress on adding elements like, brand definition, product specifications, know-how of your work patterns, etc. ensure that your content flows naturally and has exactness.
Other alternatives are, using your product logo as the GIF background, character representation of your brand or using some explicit product oriented themes. While, you are free to pick anything that suits your preferences and needs, just make sure that using it in your GIF adds value to your brand instead of giving an out of the box feel.
Image Name: The-only-guide-you’ll-ever-need-to-learn-gif-design-that-get-shared-like-crazy-1
03Cut Down on Unnecessary Frames
Have you ever encountered a halt in the natural loop of your GIF out of nowhere? While pondering over the underlying cause, it is a common assumption to take this as an animation fallacy, but that’s evidently not the case. The actual culprits behind this glitch are those extra frames that contribute towards nothing but adding weight to an already heavy file.
To set this straight, you should switch to removing any extra frames, while saving a particular one which you may stretch to a desired duration according to the break point of your contents in the GIF. However, take caution to maintain the visual quality of your GIF while you remove those extra frames.
04Make Your GIF Accessible
You should always adhere to the concern of accessibility while creating a GIF. The reason being, your content is visibly going to get mass attention across the web and you cannot filter out visitors, make sure your GIF is easily accessible to all kind of users, particularly those with vision limitations, like, epileptic patients or the ones using screen readers.
Focus on describing your GIF content with alt text and using a limited blinking and flashing rate. In case your GIF content is primarily text based, take care to limit the effective color and image movement and adjust the frames rates to avoid constant and quick movement of image frames when adding many clips on a single page.
Pay additional heed to the auto play feature of your GIFs. It can be visibly annoying to be welcomed on a site homepage with GIFs enjoying an auto play session of their own. You can alternatively, incorporate a ‘Click to Play’ option or grant your site visitors the liberty to decide on what is to be played when.
05Use Storyboards
When aiming to create visibly appealing GIFs, you need to lay considerable stress on choosing an apt background story. Don’t get misled by the wrong assumption of using any random background, owing to the short play duration of GIFs. An impressive solution to this concern is taking the help of a storyboard to keep track of your GIF’s content flow.
Using a storyboard is quite effective means of being in line with the direction of content movement, rescuing you from the hustle of going off the track. This comes explicitly handy when you are working with a team of creators. The storyboard is there to keep everything at the exact place, thus improving member communications and boosting up the design process.
06Focus on Creating Loops
Consider creating an animated motion loop for your GIF allowing a repeated and comprehensive view of your content. Looping projects a deeper observation of the clip and its contents in a seamless transition. However, creating an infinite motion loop in GIFs is quite tricky, as you need to pay utmost concern to ensure a smooth content flow and chances of even the slightest errors are not entertained.
Any loopholes in placement of your GIF elements will get noticed within a blink and lead to an unsatisfactory user experience. Hence, you need to check each of your content frames separately to eliminate chances of possible errors. If you are a beginner, try working with geometrical animations to get the initial pickup. This will be advantageous in deciding the exact element positions at the start and end of the GIF.
07Make Use of Motion Blur
Using the concept of motion blur is pivotal in providing a natural flow and feel to your GIF, which, in an otherwise case would ordinarily appear as a mere collection of static images clubbed together. This would give a wobbling feel with unsteady frame movements to your viewers. The motion blur effect potentially ensures a smooth content flow, and your GIF looks like a short video captured from a camera.
08Stick to a Reduced File Size
Creating GIF of within a standard size range is quite difficult, owing to the fact that these are shared across a variety of media platforms, each having a different file size constraint. It is, however, recommended to stick to a file size as low as possible to escape the notch of modifying the same, ener5y time you need to work with the GIF on a different platform.
Listed below are a few ways to limit your GIF to a lower file size:
● Restrict your GIF to a frame count under 150, exceeding which, it will get difficult to export the GIF to most of the commonly visited social media and content sharing platforms.
● When your GIF is ready to export, adjust its lossy parameter between 5 and 10 to boost the file compression rate. Look for a setting that decreases the effective file size without compromising with the overall GIF design.
● Restrict to a minimum possible color usage. This will not only intensify the GIF design, but also contribute in maintaining a decreased file size. You can instead, focus on playing with animations or adjusting your image frames to longer play durations.
● Don’t experiment with multiple background gradients in your GIF. You can select from either a completely opaque, or a totally transparent background. Adding unnecessary gradients will end up giving your GIF a hazy look, along with a visibly large file that will be difficult to export non any platform.
Part 2 Amazing Examples of Animated Gifs in Web Design
GIFs are an effective means of adding appeal to brand promotions and achieving improved market buildup by delivering just the right content in the most captivating and interesting ways. You can use them as creative web design tools to add spark to your product sites, which can potentially boost the market value and reach of your product by multiplying the number of visitors to your site.
Discussed below are some stunning examples of using animated GIFs to enhance commercial web design, which you can use to create a significant buzz about your product among a target audience:
01Marie Weber
This is a shoe designer company in France, famous for its classy, handmade shoes. On visiting the company’s site, you are welcomed by a simple and subtle, animated product logo on each page. This animated logo is a masterpiece in itself, telling you the about the lavishness of the associated product.
On navigating further, you will find animated elements, like; shoe images and collection names, which appear on the screen before a zoom out. There are underlined links that pop up to animate beneath the name, indicating the link you are going to visit.
02Wonderful Weekends Festival
This is an absolute animation delight, where the welcome page of the site greets you with vibrant pieces in motion, and a pop up box informs you of the festival’s arrival time and asks you to select one from the options of ‘Play Now’ or ‘Show Me the Festival’.
As you click to make a choice, the Google brand shines with associated colors. As you continue to browse through the site, pages open up with brand color animations, along with colored active links flashing on the pages.
03Google
This is a brand name that needs no introduction. Google has launched its ‘Your Plan, Your Planet’ site to infuse awareness about environment conservation and eco friendly lifestyles, guiding visitors on ways and means of introducing related changes. The site greets you with a simple layout, with a short text moving in and getting still. Click on ‘Let’s Get Started’ and you will see 4 amazingly animated icons that open up to more vibrant animations.
Tap any one of the swinging refrigerator door, the illuminated light bulb, the running faucet or the teddy bear waving at you, to land on a schema that informs you about effective means of improving on conservation in within your selected section. This is a perfect example of using animations as a marketing strategy to captivate people’s attention on a subject that evidently turns them off.
04Pete Nottage
Designed explicitly as a hiring site for voice presenter Pete Nottage, this website tells you everything about the actor and the credibility of hiring him. The site lands among the best examples of web animation usage. The welcome page of the site greets you with the brand logo. Tap on the red swipe and you will get to know that the brand infuses vibrancy to something that’s originally dull.
Next, you will find a plethora of dynamic and elegant animations in a plying plane, cityscape, flowing sea and sailing boats, moving cars and excusive motion graphics on each building. Visiting the animated site links provides you an insight of the actor’s personality. In the ‘About’ section, you can find a headshot animation, that disappears on clicking, and is followed by a more dynamic motion snippet.
05Zamzar
This one is an online file conversion site and lives up to its tagline ‘File Conversion Made Easy’ through a concrete animation on the welcome page. The file conversion on this site is quick, 3-step process, with a blinking animation indicating the current conversion stage.
For instance, when you are at the first step of selecting a file to convert, the animation shoes a blinking glow on number 1. This continues for the rest of the steps, till your file is finally converted into the desired file format.
06Blizzard: Warcraft III Reforged
Warcraft was one complete heaven of adventure and thrill for console gamers. While the enticing cutscenes with stunning motion graphics were an absolute favorite, the game had a plenty of other exciting elements.
The relaunched game (Warcraft III Reforged) website has a mix of gaming adventures and cutscenes running in the site’s background with the game title and pitch appearing as an overlaid animation. On navigating through the site, you will find classy animated elements that take you on a nostalgic trip of the original game.
Part 3 Learn How to Create and Add Gifs to Interactive Layouts in Filmora
Now that you are quite familiar with the utility of GIFs in almost every market field, and have seen stunning examples of GIF design and usage for an impressive brand promotion, let’s take a dive into creating and using these motion clips to make interactive graphic layouts for websites, social media blogs and posts, and a variety of other applications that require some brilliant imagery for market promotion.
When looking for the perfect GIF designer software, Wondershare Filmora Video Editor is the most affordable pick. This is a free and an enhanced GIF design tool, packed with world class and premium quality features that are most suitable for giving the much appreciated professional touch to your graphic artwork. Here’s how you can work with Filmora to make alluring graphic layouts:
Step 1: Launch Filmora
The software is readily compatible to your Windows and MacOS devices and you don’t even require a signup to use the application. Just download and install the software in your preferred device and launch the same to reach the software’s welcome interface.
Filmora Free Download Link:
Step 2: Upload Media Files
Select and import the desired media files from your device to upload them to the Filmora timeline. You can either pick a video or choose a series of static images.
Step 3: Add to Timeline
Once imported, you need to add the selected files to the software’s editor timeline. You can use the ‘Drag and Drop’ method to get this done.
Wondershare Filmora - Best Video Editor for Mac/Windows
5,481,435 people have downloaded it.
Build unique custom animations without breaking a sweat.
Focus on creating epic stories and leave the details to Filmora’s auto features.
Start a creative adventure with drag & drop effects and endless possibilities.
Filmora simplifies advanced features to save you time and effort.
Filmora cuts out repetition so you can move on to your next creative breakthrough.
Step 4: Explore Your Editing Skills
As already stated, the Filmora effects library is an extensive inventory of stunning features to compliment your artwork with matchless class. You are free to choose from tons of image and video editing effects and filters suited to your GIF content to create excellent pieces of graphic art.
When starting to customize your GIF in Filmora, you can begin with cropping and trimming your images or video to the perfect part, or even cut and split them to ward off unwanted portions, or rotate and flip the images to set them in the perfect orientation.
You can further add elements like, graphic transitions, overlays, animations and texts, and etc., to customize your artwork to your heart’s content. The software’s audio-visual library facilitates you with around 300 audio-visual effects and music choices to supplement your creation with a conducive sound feel. You can also make adjustments in frame speed and play durations to get the best most snippet ever!
You are granted the liberty to choose almost any common file format to create and customize GIFs in Filmora. A more convincing feature is, the software does not leave a watermark on your artwork and you can easily share your creation across media platforms.
Step 5: Save and Export
Once your creation satisfies you, save it to your device with a .gif extension, from where it can be exported to various media sharing platforms with ease.
● Key Takeaways from This Episode →
● When planning a perfect and appealing product marketing strategy, you can consider using GIFs to enhance the feel. Complement your product site with suitable GIF design and graphic transitions can prove pivotal to target and hold your related audience.
● Looking for the best GIF creator and customization software, you can rely on Filmora to create and customize professional quality GIFs with utmost convenience.
The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need to Learn GIF Design That Get Shared Like Crazy
In this article
01 [8 Principles for Great GIF Design](#Part 1)
02 [6 Amazing Examples of Animated Gifs in Web Design](#Part 2)
03 [Learn How to Create and Add Gifs to Interactive Layouts in Filmora](#Part 3)
Part 1 Principles for Great GIF Design
Creating GIFs for infotainment or casual information sharing is the current talk of the trend. You might have visibly landed across a heap of tantalizing GIFs in blogs, social media posts, product promotion websites and almost every other domain you can possibly think of. Using GIFs for any type of content promotion is bound to captivate the target audience in impressive multiplicities. Ever wondered what’s the cue behind the mass appeal that GIFs create? Well, an obvious answer is the stunning GIF design.
When going for GIF creation and selection, design plays the key role in creating considerable buzz about the information being transmitted. To add impact to your creation, you need to pay considerable attention to its design implications, thus ensuring that the right things get presented in the right way. Outlined below are some amazing principles you can use to enhance your GIF design to the next level:
01Ensure Accuracy and Preciseness
The primary concern you need to be attentive about while designing a GIF is its preciseness. Ensure ban exactness of information and confine your creation to the theme and requirement of your creation, like, the message you want to deliver or the impact you want to create through the GIF. Balance your creativity within specific content parameters and avoid getting carried away or overdoing on the beautifying aspect.
As an example, it is visibly not appealing to add a wholesome mix of 15 shades and 20 different elements in a nature-based GIF. You will end up getting too harsh on the viewers’ eyes, confusing them with a hoard of speeding elements and banging colors. You can instead stick to 2 or 3 frames with an intelligent mix of 2 complementary shades.
02Maintain Visual Identity
An important aspect to keep in mind while attempting to design GIF is, it should visually relate to the underlying content. For instance, if you are intending a brand promotion through your GIF, lay stress on adding elements like, brand definition, product specifications, know-how of your work patterns, etc. ensure that your content flows naturally and has exactness.
Other alternatives are, using your product logo as the GIF background, character representation of your brand or using some explicit product oriented themes. While, you are free to pick anything that suits your preferences and needs, just make sure that using it in your GIF adds value to your brand instead of giving an out of the box feel.
Image Name: The-only-guide-you’ll-ever-need-to-learn-gif-design-that-get-shared-like-crazy-1
03Cut Down on Unnecessary Frames
Have you ever encountered a halt in the natural loop of your GIF out of nowhere? While pondering over the underlying cause, it is a common assumption to take this as an animation fallacy, but that’s evidently not the case. The actual culprits behind this glitch are those extra frames that contribute towards nothing but adding weight to an already heavy file.
To set this straight, you should switch to removing any extra frames, while saving a particular one which you may stretch to a desired duration according to the break point of your contents in the GIF. However, take caution to maintain the visual quality of your GIF while you remove those extra frames.
04Make Your GIF Accessible
You should always adhere to the concern of accessibility while creating a GIF. The reason being, your content is visibly going to get mass attention across the web and you cannot filter out visitors, make sure your GIF is easily accessible to all kind of users, particularly those with vision limitations, like, epileptic patients or the ones using screen readers.
Focus on describing your GIF content with alt text and using a limited blinking and flashing rate. In case your GIF content is primarily text based, take care to limit the effective color and image movement and adjust the frames rates to avoid constant and quick movement of image frames when adding many clips on a single page.
Pay additional heed to the auto play feature of your GIFs. It can be visibly annoying to be welcomed on a site homepage with GIFs enjoying an auto play session of their own. You can alternatively, incorporate a ‘Click to Play’ option or grant your site visitors the liberty to decide on what is to be played when.
05Use Storyboards
When aiming to create visibly appealing GIFs, you need to lay considerable stress on choosing an apt background story. Don’t get misled by the wrong assumption of using any random background, owing to the short play duration of GIFs. An impressive solution to this concern is taking the help of a storyboard to keep track of your GIF’s content flow.
Using a storyboard is quite effective means of being in line with the direction of content movement, rescuing you from the hustle of going off the track. This comes explicitly handy when you are working with a team of creators. The storyboard is there to keep everything at the exact place, thus improving member communications and boosting up the design process.
06Focus on Creating Loops
Consider creating an animated motion loop for your GIF allowing a repeated and comprehensive view of your content. Looping projects a deeper observation of the clip and its contents in a seamless transition. However, creating an infinite motion loop in GIFs is quite tricky, as you need to pay utmost concern to ensure a smooth content flow and chances of even the slightest errors are not entertained.
Any loopholes in placement of your GIF elements will get noticed within a blink and lead to an unsatisfactory user experience. Hence, you need to check each of your content frames separately to eliminate chances of possible errors. If you are a beginner, try working with geometrical animations to get the initial pickup. This will be advantageous in deciding the exact element positions at the start and end of the GIF.
07Make Use of Motion Blur
Using the concept of motion blur is pivotal in providing a natural flow and feel to your GIF, which, in an otherwise case would ordinarily appear as a mere collection of static images clubbed together. This would give a wobbling feel with unsteady frame movements to your viewers. The motion blur effect potentially ensures a smooth content flow, and your GIF looks like a short video captured from a camera.
08Stick to a Reduced File Size
Creating GIF of within a standard size range is quite difficult, owing to the fact that these are shared across a variety of media platforms, each having a different file size constraint. It is, however, recommended to stick to a file size as low as possible to escape the notch of modifying the same, ener5y time you need to work with the GIF on a different platform.
Listed below are a few ways to limit your GIF to a lower file size:
● Restrict your GIF to a frame count under 150, exceeding which, it will get difficult to export the GIF to most of the commonly visited social media and content sharing platforms.
● When your GIF is ready to export, adjust its lossy parameter between 5 and 10 to boost the file compression rate. Look for a setting that decreases the effective file size without compromising with the overall GIF design.
● Restrict to a minimum possible color usage. This will not only intensify the GIF design, but also contribute in maintaining a decreased file size. You can instead, focus on playing with animations or adjusting your image frames to longer play durations.
● Don’t experiment with multiple background gradients in your GIF. You can select from either a completely opaque, or a totally transparent background. Adding unnecessary gradients will end up giving your GIF a hazy look, along with a visibly large file that will be difficult to export non any platform.
Part 2 Amazing Examples of Animated Gifs in Web Design
GIFs are an effective means of adding appeal to brand promotions and achieving improved market buildup by delivering just the right content in the most captivating and interesting ways. You can use them as creative web design tools to add spark to your product sites, which can potentially boost the market value and reach of your product by multiplying the number of visitors to your site.
Discussed below are some stunning examples of using animated GIFs to enhance commercial web design, which you can use to create a significant buzz about your product among a target audience:
01Marie Weber
This is a shoe designer company in France, famous for its classy, handmade shoes. On visiting the company’s site, you are welcomed by a simple and subtle, animated product logo on each page. This animated logo is a masterpiece in itself, telling you the about the lavishness of the associated product.
On navigating further, you will find animated elements, like; shoe images and collection names, which appear on the screen before a zoom out. There are underlined links that pop up to animate beneath the name, indicating the link you are going to visit.
02Wonderful Weekends Festival
This is an absolute animation delight, where the welcome page of the site greets you with vibrant pieces in motion, and a pop up box informs you of the festival’s arrival time and asks you to select one from the options of ‘Play Now’ or ‘Show Me the Festival’.
As you click to make a choice, the Google brand shines with associated colors. As you continue to browse through the site, pages open up with brand color animations, along with colored active links flashing on the pages.
03Google
This is a brand name that needs no introduction. Google has launched its ‘Your Plan, Your Planet’ site to infuse awareness about environment conservation and eco friendly lifestyles, guiding visitors on ways and means of introducing related changes. The site greets you with a simple layout, with a short text moving in and getting still. Click on ‘Let’s Get Started’ and you will see 4 amazingly animated icons that open up to more vibrant animations.
Tap any one of the swinging refrigerator door, the illuminated light bulb, the running faucet or the teddy bear waving at you, to land on a schema that informs you about effective means of improving on conservation in within your selected section. This is a perfect example of using animations as a marketing strategy to captivate people’s attention on a subject that evidently turns them off.
04Pete Nottage
Designed explicitly as a hiring site for voice presenter Pete Nottage, this website tells you everything about the actor and the credibility of hiring him. The site lands among the best examples of web animation usage. The welcome page of the site greets you with the brand logo. Tap on the red swipe and you will get to know that the brand infuses vibrancy to something that’s originally dull.
Next, you will find a plethora of dynamic and elegant animations in a plying plane, cityscape, flowing sea and sailing boats, moving cars and excusive motion graphics on each building. Visiting the animated site links provides you an insight of the actor’s personality. In the ‘About’ section, you can find a headshot animation, that disappears on clicking, and is followed by a more dynamic motion snippet.
05Zamzar
This one is an online file conversion site and lives up to its tagline ‘File Conversion Made Easy’ through a concrete animation on the welcome page. The file conversion on this site is quick, 3-step process, with a blinking animation indicating the current conversion stage.
For instance, when you are at the first step of selecting a file to convert, the animation shoes a blinking glow on number 1. This continues for the rest of the steps, till your file is finally converted into the desired file format.
06Blizzard: Warcraft III Reforged
Warcraft was one complete heaven of adventure and thrill for console gamers. While the enticing cutscenes with stunning motion graphics were an absolute favorite, the game had a plenty of other exciting elements.
The relaunched game (Warcraft III Reforged) website has a mix of gaming adventures and cutscenes running in the site’s background with the game title and pitch appearing as an overlaid animation. On navigating through the site, you will find classy animated elements that take you on a nostalgic trip of the original game.
Part 3 Learn How to Create and Add Gifs to Interactive Layouts in Filmora
Now that you are quite familiar with the utility of GIFs in almost every market field, and have seen stunning examples of GIF design and usage for an impressive brand promotion, let’s take a dive into creating and using these motion clips to make interactive graphic layouts for websites, social media blogs and posts, and a variety of other applications that require some brilliant imagery for market promotion.
When looking for the perfect GIF designer software, Wondershare Filmora Video Editor is the most affordable pick. This is a free and an enhanced GIF design tool, packed with world class and premium quality features that are most suitable for giving the much appreciated professional touch to your graphic artwork. Here’s how you can work with Filmora to make alluring graphic layouts:
Step 1: Launch Filmora
The software is readily compatible to your Windows and MacOS devices and you don’t even require a signup to use the application. Just download and install the software in your preferred device and launch the same to reach the software’s welcome interface.
Filmora Free Download Link:
Step 2: Upload Media Files
Select and import the desired media files from your device to upload them to the Filmora timeline. You can either pick a video or choose a series of static images.
Step 3: Add to Timeline
Once imported, you need to add the selected files to the software’s editor timeline. You can use the ‘Drag and Drop’ method to get this done.
Wondershare Filmora - Best Video Editor for Mac/Windows
5,481,435 people have downloaded it.
Build unique custom animations without breaking a sweat.
Focus on creating epic stories and leave the details to Filmora’s auto features.
Start a creative adventure with drag & drop effects and endless possibilities.
Filmora simplifies advanced features to save you time and effort.
Filmora cuts out repetition so you can move on to your next creative breakthrough.
Step 4: Explore Your Editing Skills
As already stated, the Filmora effects library is an extensive inventory of stunning features to compliment your artwork with matchless class. You are free to choose from tons of image and video editing effects and filters suited to your GIF content to create excellent pieces of graphic art.
When starting to customize your GIF in Filmora, you can begin with cropping and trimming your images or video to the perfect part, or even cut and split them to ward off unwanted portions, or rotate and flip the images to set them in the perfect orientation.
You can further add elements like, graphic transitions, overlays, animations and texts, and etc., to customize your artwork to your heart’s content. The software’s audio-visual library facilitates you with around 300 audio-visual effects and music choices to supplement your creation with a conducive sound feel. You can also make adjustments in frame speed and play durations to get the best most snippet ever!
You are granted the liberty to choose almost any common file format to create and customize GIFs in Filmora. A more convincing feature is, the software does not leave a watermark on your artwork and you can easily share your creation across media platforms.
Step 5: Save and Export
Once your creation satisfies you, save it to your device with a .gif extension, from where it can be exported to various media sharing platforms with ease.
● Key Takeaways from This Episode →
● When planning a perfect and appealing product marketing strategy, you can consider using GIFs to enhance the feel. Complement your product site with suitable GIF design and graphic transitions can prove pivotal to target and hold your related audience.
● Looking for the best GIF creator and customization software, you can rely on Filmora to create and customize professional quality GIFs with utmost convenience.
The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need to Learn GIF Design That Get Shared Like Crazy
In this article
01 [8 Principles for Great GIF Design](#Part 1)
02 [6 Amazing Examples of Animated Gifs in Web Design](#Part 2)
03 [Learn How to Create and Add Gifs to Interactive Layouts in Filmora](#Part 3)
Part 1 Principles for Great GIF Design
Creating GIFs for infotainment or casual information sharing is the current talk of the trend. You might have visibly landed across a heap of tantalizing GIFs in blogs, social media posts, product promotion websites and almost every other domain you can possibly think of. Using GIFs for any type of content promotion is bound to captivate the target audience in impressive multiplicities. Ever wondered what’s the cue behind the mass appeal that GIFs create? Well, an obvious answer is the stunning GIF design.
When going for GIF creation and selection, design plays the key role in creating considerable buzz about the information being transmitted. To add impact to your creation, you need to pay considerable attention to its design implications, thus ensuring that the right things get presented in the right way. Outlined below are some amazing principles you can use to enhance your GIF design to the next level:
01Ensure Accuracy and Preciseness
The primary concern you need to be attentive about while designing a GIF is its preciseness. Ensure ban exactness of information and confine your creation to the theme and requirement of your creation, like, the message you want to deliver or the impact you want to create through the GIF. Balance your creativity within specific content parameters and avoid getting carried away or overdoing on the beautifying aspect.
As an example, it is visibly not appealing to add a wholesome mix of 15 shades and 20 different elements in a nature-based GIF. You will end up getting too harsh on the viewers’ eyes, confusing them with a hoard of speeding elements and banging colors. You can instead stick to 2 or 3 frames with an intelligent mix of 2 complementary shades.
02Maintain Visual Identity
An important aspect to keep in mind while attempting to design GIF is, it should visually relate to the underlying content. For instance, if you are intending a brand promotion through your GIF, lay stress on adding elements like, brand definition, product specifications, know-how of your work patterns, etc. ensure that your content flows naturally and has exactness.
Other alternatives are, using your product logo as the GIF background, character representation of your brand or using some explicit product oriented themes. While, you are free to pick anything that suits your preferences and needs, just make sure that using it in your GIF adds value to your brand instead of giving an out of the box feel.
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03Cut Down on Unnecessary Frames
Have you ever encountered a halt in the natural loop of your GIF out of nowhere? While pondering over the underlying cause, it is a common assumption to take this as an animation fallacy, but that’s evidently not the case. The actual culprits behind this glitch are those extra frames that contribute towards nothing but adding weight to an already heavy file.
To set this straight, you should switch to removing any extra frames, while saving a particular one which you may stretch to a desired duration according to the break point of your contents in the GIF. However, take caution to maintain the visual quality of your GIF while you remove those extra frames.
04Make Your GIF Accessible
You should always adhere to the concern of accessibility while creating a GIF. The reason being, your content is visibly going to get mass attention across the web and you cannot filter out visitors, make sure your GIF is easily accessible to all kind of users, particularly those with vision limitations, like, epileptic patients or the ones using screen readers.
Focus on describing your GIF content with alt text and using a limited blinking and flashing rate. In case your GIF content is primarily text based, take care to limit the effective color and image movement and adjust the frames rates to avoid constant and quick movement of image frames when adding many clips on a single page.
Pay additional heed to the auto play feature of your GIFs. It can be visibly annoying to be welcomed on a site homepage with GIFs enjoying an auto play session of their own. You can alternatively, incorporate a ‘Click to Play’ option or grant your site visitors the liberty to decide on what is to be played when.
05Use Storyboards
When aiming to create visibly appealing GIFs, you need to lay considerable stress on choosing an apt background story. Don’t get misled by the wrong assumption of using any random background, owing to the short play duration of GIFs. An impressive solution to this concern is taking the help of a storyboard to keep track of your GIF’s content flow.
Using a storyboard is quite effective means of being in line with the direction of content movement, rescuing you from the hustle of going off the track. This comes explicitly handy when you are working with a team of creators. The storyboard is there to keep everything at the exact place, thus improving member communications and boosting up the design process.
06Focus on Creating Loops
Consider creating an animated motion loop for your GIF allowing a repeated and comprehensive view of your content. Looping projects a deeper observation of the clip and its contents in a seamless transition. However, creating an infinite motion loop in GIFs is quite tricky, as you need to pay utmost concern to ensure a smooth content flow and chances of even the slightest errors are not entertained.
Any loopholes in placement of your GIF elements will get noticed within a blink and lead to an unsatisfactory user experience. Hence, you need to check each of your content frames separately to eliminate chances of possible errors. If you are a beginner, try working with geometrical animations to get the initial pickup. This will be advantageous in deciding the exact element positions at the start and end of the GIF.
07Make Use of Motion Blur
Using the concept of motion blur is pivotal in providing a natural flow and feel to your GIF, which, in an otherwise case would ordinarily appear as a mere collection of static images clubbed together. This would give a wobbling feel with unsteady frame movements to your viewers. The motion blur effect potentially ensures a smooth content flow, and your GIF looks like a short video captured from a camera.
08Stick to a Reduced File Size
Creating GIF of within a standard size range is quite difficult, owing to the fact that these are shared across a variety of media platforms, each having a different file size constraint. It is, however, recommended to stick to a file size as low as possible to escape the notch of modifying the same, ener5y time you need to work with the GIF on a different platform.
Listed below are a few ways to limit your GIF to a lower file size:
● Restrict your GIF to a frame count under 150, exceeding which, it will get difficult to export the GIF to most of the commonly visited social media and content sharing platforms.
● When your GIF is ready to export, adjust its lossy parameter between 5 and 10 to boost the file compression rate. Look for a setting that decreases the effective file size without compromising with the overall GIF design.
● Restrict to a minimum possible color usage. This will not only intensify the GIF design, but also contribute in maintaining a decreased file size. You can instead, focus on playing with animations or adjusting your image frames to longer play durations.
● Don’t experiment with multiple background gradients in your GIF. You can select from either a completely opaque, or a totally transparent background. Adding unnecessary gradients will end up giving your GIF a hazy look, along with a visibly large file that will be difficult to export non any platform.
Part 2 Amazing Examples of Animated Gifs in Web Design
GIFs are an effective means of adding appeal to brand promotions and achieving improved market buildup by delivering just the right content in the most captivating and interesting ways. You can use them as creative web design tools to add spark to your product sites, which can potentially boost the market value and reach of your product by multiplying the number of visitors to your site.
Discussed below are some stunning examples of using animated GIFs to enhance commercial web design, which you can use to create a significant buzz about your product among a target audience:
01Marie Weber
This is a shoe designer company in France, famous for its classy, handmade shoes. On visiting the company’s site, you are welcomed by a simple and subtle, animated product logo on each page. This animated logo is a masterpiece in itself, telling you the about the lavishness of the associated product.
On navigating further, you will find animated elements, like; shoe images and collection names, which appear on the screen before a zoom out. There are underlined links that pop up to animate beneath the name, indicating the link you are going to visit.
02Wonderful Weekends Festival
This is an absolute animation delight, where the welcome page of the site greets you with vibrant pieces in motion, and a pop up box informs you of the festival’s arrival time and asks you to select one from the options of ‘Play Now’ or ‘Show Me the Festival’.
As you click to make a choice, the Google brand shines with associated colors. As you continue to browse through the site, pages open up with brand color animations, along with colored active links flashing on the pages.
03Google
This is a brand name that needs no introduction. Google has launched its ‘Your Plan, Your Planet’ site to infuse awareness about environment conservation and eco friendly lifestyles, guiding visitors on ways and means of introducing related changes. The site greets you with a simple layout, with a short text moving in and getting still. Click on ‘Let’s Get Started’ and you will see 4 amazingly animated icons that open up to more vibrant animations.
Tap any one of the swinging refrigerator door, the illuminated light bulb, the running faucet or the teddy bear waving at you, to land on a schema that informs you about effective means of improving on conservation in within your selected section. This is a perfect example of using animations as a marketing strategy to captivate people’s attention on a subject that evidently turns them off.
04Pete Nottage
Designed explicitly as a hiring site for voice presenter Pete Nottage, this website tells you everything about the actor and the credibility of hiring him. The site lands among the best examples of web animation usage. The welcome page of the site greets you with the brand logo. Tap on the red swipe and you will get to know that the brand infuses vibrancy to something that’s originally dull.
Next, you will find a plethora of dynamic and elegant animations in a plying plane, cityscape, flowing sea and sailing boats, moving cars and excusive motion graphics on each building. Visiting the animated site links provides you an insight of the actor’s personality. In the ‘About’ section, you can find a headshot animation, that disappears on clicking, and is followed by a more dynamic motion snippet.
05Zamzar
This one is an online file conversion site and lives up to its tagline ‘File Conversion Made Easy’ through a concrete animation on the welcome page. The file conversion on this site is quick, 3-step process, with a blinking animation indicating the current conversion stage.
For instance, when you are at the first step of selecting a file to convert, the animation shoes a blinking glow on number 1. This continues for the rest of the steps, till your file is finally converted into the desired file format.
06Blizzard: Warcraft III Reforged
Warcraft was one complete heaven of adventure and thrill for console gamers. While the enticing cutscenes with stunning motion graphics were an absolute favorite, the game had a plenty of other exciting elements.
The relaunched game (Warcraft III Reforged) website has a mix of gaming adventures and cutscenes running in the site’s background with the game title and pitch appearing as an overlaid animation. On navigating through the site, you will find classy animated elements that take you on a nostalgic trip of the original game.
Part 3 Learn How to Create and Add Gifs to Interactive Layouts in Filmora
Now that you are quite familiar with the utility of GIFs in almost every market field, and have seen stunning examples of GIF design and usage for an impressive brand promotion, let’s take a dive into creating and using these motion clips to make interactive graphic layouts for websites, social media blogs and posts, and a variety of other applications that require some brilliant imagery for market promotion.
When looking for the perfect GIF designer software, Wondershare Filmora Video Editor is the most affordable pick. This is a free and an enhanced GIF design tool, packed with world class and premium quality features that are most suitable for giving the much appreciated professional touch to your graphic artwork. Here’s how you can work with Filmora to make alluring graphic layouts:
Step 1: Launch Filmora
The software is readily compatible to your Windows and MacOS devices and you don’t even require a signup to use the application. Just download and install the software in your preferred device and launch the same to reach the software’s welcome interface.
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Step 2: Upload Media Files
Select and import the desired media files from your device to upload them to the Filmora timeline. You can either pick a video or choose a series of static images.
Step 3: Add to Timeline
Once imported, you need to add the selected files to the software’s editor timeline. You can use the ‘Drag and Drop’ method to get this done.
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Step 4: Explore Your Editing Skills
As already stated, the Filmora effects library is an extensive inventory of stunning features to compliment your artwork with matchless class. You are free to choose from tons of image and video editing effects and filters suited to your GIF content to create excellent pieces of graphic art.
When starting to customize your GIF in Filmora, you can begin with cropping and trimming your images or video to the perfect part, or even cut and split them to ward off unwanted portions, or rotate and flip the images to set them in the perfect orientation.
You can further add elements like, graphic transitions, overlays, animations and texts, and etc., to customize your artwork to your heart’s content. The software’s audio-visual library facilitates you with around 300 audio-visual effects and music choices to supplement your creation with a conducive sound feel. You can also make adjustments in frame speed and play durations to get the best most snippet ever!
You are granted the liberty to choose almost any common file format to create and customize GIFs in Filmora. A more convincing feature is, the software does not leave a watermark on your artwork and you can easily share your creation across media platforms.
Step 5: Save and Export
Once your creation satisfies you, save it to your device with a .gif extension, from where it can be exported to various media sharing platforms with ease.
● Key Takeaways from This Episode →
● When planning a perfect and appealing product marketing strategy, you can consider using GIFs to enhance the feel. Complement your product site with suitable GIF design and graphic transitions can prove pivotal to target and hold your related audience.
● Looking for the best GIF creator and customization software, you can rely on Filmora to create and customize professional quality GIFs with utmost convenience.
Splitting Audio From a Video in Sony Vegas [Step by Step]
The Sony Vegas Pro is software for professionally editing videos. There are many tools and effects available for audio and video that you can add respective to your requirements. The stabilization engine is available in Sony Vegas Pro to reduce the movements that you can observe the shaking in the videos. It helps in improving the quality of your content thoroughly. Sony Vegas pro also helps pin the texts or grading of the colours to apply objects in various dimensions.
You can use this software for editing, organizing or viewing the projects that are going on and present on the timeline. Even sharing the small parts of the video is possible. As a user of Sony Vegas Pro, it is a total choice of handling the colouring exposure to maintain the workflow. Here, the main discussion is regarding the split of the audio from the video in the Sony Vegas Pro. There are also some details about the substitute, which is Wondershare Filmora.
How can you separate audio from the video clips in Sony Vegas Pro?
The best features of Sony Vegas Pro help create, edit, trim or even crop the videos. You can use them in making videos worth viewing for your audience. Sony Vegas Pro can make your work on multiple screens at the same time. The most important characteristic is the extraction of the audio from the video.
Step 1: When you have finished the installation of the Sony Vegas Pro on your device, now import the video clip from which you want to extract the audio.
Step 2: Drag and drop your video clip in the editing area. Here, you can easily see the video and audio tracks are all together. Whatever effect you apply, both will show the results.
Step 3: You have to separate the audio from the video files in this step. After selecting the track, whether audio or video, simply press the “U” letter on your keyboard. In this step, keep holding the cursor. It permits you to keep moving the video clips quickly. Now, it is easy to download audio files from this area.
Step 4: The tracks are separate now, so you can move, delete or edit them individually. Definitely, it doesn’t affect the other track.
An easier way to split the audio from the video
Most graphic designers and video editors consider the Sony Vegas Pro as the professional level software for editing purposes. Due to the user interface of advanced level, high pricing and availability only for the Mac users make people look for options as the editing tool and accessible on both devices using Windows and Mac.
Filmora Video Editor is the best consideration among all of the editors. You can also use the Wondershare Filmora in dark mode as well. This feature helps the user edit in his comfort zone without causing any harm to the eyes. In the following steps, you can easily separate the audio from the videos in Wondershare Filmora.
For Win 7 or later (64-bit)
For macOS 10.14 or later
Features
- Simple interface and all the tools are easily available
- Just need a few clicks along the drag and drop to perform the functionalities
- Unlimited sharing of the videos on YouTube, Vimeo and many others
- Splitting of the clips and screen
- Easy to split up the audio from the video
Step 1: After running the Wondershare Filmora, select the ratio of your choice 4:3 or 16:9 for entering in the mode of editing. Click on the “Import” so you can add the photos, video and audio from the folder of your system. After importing the videos, drag and drop in the timeline. As a default, all the files get merged with one another with no gap.
Step 2: Right-click on the video clip from which you want to extract the audio. Select the option of “Detach Audio” from the menu. Instantly, an audio file is visible on the screen, and it is the original one from the source.
Step 3: Now, the audio track gets separated from the video successfully. Wondershare Filmora also offers to add one more audio file. Yes, it is also possible with this software.
Step 4: After separating the audio from the video, it is simple to delete the track, whether it is audio or video that is not in use or want to use. Click on the “Export” option for saving your required audio tracks, or you can even select the “iPod” for playing the audio. You can also save the audio file separately as the new file on your hard drive. After exporting the audio tracks, load the project file again that has the frames for the video and later export the video file.
Whenever you think about the compatibility of editing software with different operating systems, Wondershare Filmora comes to mind as the first choice. All the new features of Wondershare Filmora in its latest version have received positive feedback and reviews. Definitely, it is the actual replacement of the previously used editors such as video editor in Windows or iMovie in Mac.
Wondershare Filmora not only adds the animation but as well offers customization. Adding the keyframes is very easy for the user to change the positions, scale or rotate the clips. The feature of colour matching is also available so you can match the clips from one frame to another. Even the shortcut keys are available for all the commands that bring effective and efficient editing tasks.
Just little guidance and assistance can help you use the Wondershare Filmora as the options are suitable in front of your screen. No more waiting and thinking; start using this most straightforward editor and enjoy all the features of Wondershare Filmora.
Step 2: Drag and drop your video clip in the editing area. Here, you can easily see the video and audio tracks are all together. Whatever effect you apply, both will show the results.
Step 3: You have to separate the audio from the video files in this step. After selecting the track, whether audio or video, simply press the “U” letter on your keyboard. In this step, keep holding the cursor. It permits you to keep moving the video clips quickly. Now, it is easy to download audio files from this area.
Step 4: The tracks are separate now, so you can move, delete or edit them individually. Definitely, it doesn’t affect the other track.
An easier way to split the audio from the video
Most graphic designers and video editors consider the Sony Vegas Pro as the professional level software for editing purposes. Due to the user interface of advanced level, high pricing and availability only for the Mac users make people look for options as the editing tool and accessible on both devices using Windows and Mac.
Filmora Video Editor is the best consideration among all of the editors. You can also use the Wondershare Filmora in dark mode as well. This feature helps the user edit in his comfort zone without causing any harm to the eyes. In the following steps, you can easily separate the audio from the videos in Wondershare Filmora.
For Win 7 or later (64-bit)
For macOS 10.14 or later
Features
- Simple interface and all the tools are easily available
- Just need a few clicks along the drag and drop to perform the functionalities
- Unlimited sharing of the videos on YouTube, Vimeo and many others
- Splitting of the clips and screen
- Easy to split up the audio from the video
Step 1: After running the Wondershare Filmora, select the ratio of your choice 4:3 or 16:9 for entering in the mode of editing. Click on the “Import” so you can add the photos, video and audio from the folder of your system. After importing the videos, drag and drop in the timeline. As a default, all the files get merged with one another with no gap.
Step 2: Right-click on the video clip from which you want to extract the audio. Select the option of “Detach Audio” from the menu. Instantly, an audio file is visible on the screen, and it is the original one from the source.
Step 3: Now, the audio track gets separated from the video successfully. Wondershare Filmora also offers to add one more audio file. Yes, it is also possible with this software.
Step 4: After separating the audio from the video, it is simple to delete the track, whether it is audio or video that is not in use or want to use. Click on the “Export” option for saving your required audio tracks, or you can even select the “iPod” for playing the audio. You can also save the audio file separately as the new file on your hard drive. After exporting the audio tracks, load the project file again that has the frames for the video and later export the video file.
Whenever you think about the compatibility of editing software with different operating systems, Wondershare Filmora comes to mind as the first choice. All the new features of Wondershare Filmora in its latest version have received positive feedback and reviews. Definitely, it is the actual replacement of the previously used editors such as video editor in Windows or iMovie in Mac.
Wondershare Filmora not only adds the animation but as well offers customization. Adding the keyframes is very easy for the user to change the positions, scale or rotate the clips. The feature of colour matching is also available so you can match the clips from one frame to another. Even the shortcut keys are available for all the commands that bring effective and efficient editing tasks.
Just little guidance and assistance can help you use the Wondershare Filmora as the options are suitable in front of your screen. No more waiting and thinking; start using this most straightforward editor and enjoy all the features of Wondershare Filmora.
Step 2: Drag and drop your video clip in the editing area. Here, you can easily see the video and audio tracks are all together. Whatever effect you apply, both will show the results.
Step 3: You have to separate the audio from the video files in this step. After selecting the track, whether audio or video, simply press the “U” letter on your keyboard. In this step, keep holding the cursor. It permits you to keep moving the video clips quickly. Now, it is easy to download audio files from this area.
Step 4: The tracks are separate now, so you can move, delete or edit them individually. Definitely, it doesn’t affect the other track.
An easier way to split the audio from the video
Most graphic designers and video editors consider the Sony Vegas Pro as the professional level software for editing purposes. Due to the user interface of advanced level, high pricing and availability only for the Mac users make people look for options as the editing tool and accessible on both devices using Windows and Mac.
Filmora Video Editor is the best consideration among all of the editors. You can also use the Wondershare Filmora in dark mode as well. This feature helps the user edit in his comfort zone without causing any harm to the eyes. In the following steps, you can easily separate the audio from the videos in Wondershare Filmora.
For Win 7 or later (64-bit)
For macOS 10.14 or later
Features
- Simple interface and all the tools are easily available
- Just need a few clicks along the drag and drop to perform the functionalities
- Unlimited sharing of the videos on YouTube, Vimeo and many others
- Splitting of the clips and screen
- Easy to split up the audio from the video
Step 1: After running the Wondershare Filmora, select the ratio of your choice 4:3 or 16:9 for entering in the mode of editing. Click on the “Import” so you can add the photos, video and audio from the folder of your system. After importing the videos, drag and drop in the timeline. As a default, all the files get merged with one another with no gap.
Step 2: Right-click on the video clip from which you want to extract the audio. Select the option of “Detach Audio” from the menu. Instantly, an audio file is visible on the screen, and it is the original one from the source.
Step 3: Now, the audio track gets separated from the video successfully. Wondershare Filmora also offers to add one more audio file. Yes, it is also possible with this software.
Step 4: After separating the audio from the video, it is simple to delete the track, whether it is audio or video that is not in use or want to use. Click on the “Export” option for saving your required audio tracks, or you can even select the “iPod” for playing the audio. You can also save the audio file separately as the new file on your hard drive. After exporting the audio tracks, load the project file again that has the frames for the video and later export the video file.
Whenever you think about the compatibility of editing software with different operating systems, Wondershare Filmora comes to mind as the first choice. All the new features of Wondershare Filmora in its latest version have received positive feedback and reviews. Definitely, it is the actual replacement of the previously used editors such as video editor in Windows or iMovie in Mac.
Wondershare Filmora not only adds the animation but as well offers customization. Adding the keyframes is very easy for the user to change the positions, scale or rotate the clips. The feature of colour matching is also available so you can match the clips from one frame to another. Even the shortcut keys are available for all the commands that bring effective and efficient editing tasks.
Just little guidance and assistance can help you use the Wondershare Filmora as the options are suitable in front of your screen. No more waiting and thinking; start using this most straightforward editor and enjoy all the features of Wondershare Filmora.
Step 2: Drag and drop your video clip in the editing area. Here, you can easily see the video and audio tracks are all together. Whatever effect you apply, both will show the results.
Step 3: You have to separate the audio from the video files in this step. After selecting the track, whether audio or video, simply press the “U” letter on your keyboard. In this step, keep holding the cursor. It permits you to keep moving the video clips quickly. Now, it is easy to download audio files from this area.
Step 4: The tracks are separate now, so you can move, delete or edit them individually. Definitely, it doesn’t affect the other track.
An easier way to split the audio from the video
Most graphic designers and video editors consider the Sony Vegas Pro as the professional level software for editing purposes. Due to the user interface of advanced level, high pricing and availability only for the Mac users make people look for options as the editing tool and accessible on both devices using Windows and Mac.
Filmora Video Editor is the best consideration among all of the editors. You can also use the Wondershare Filmora in dark mode as well. This feature helps the user edit in his comfort zone without causing any harm to the eyes. In the following steps, you can easily separate the audio from the videos in Wondershare Filmora.
For Win 7 or later (64-bit)
For macOS 10.14 or later
Features
- Simple interface and all the tools are easily available
- Just need a few clicks along the drag and drop to perform the functionalities
- Unlimited sharing of the videos on YouTube, Vimeo and many others
- Splitting of the clips and screen
- Easy to split up the audio from the video
Step 1: After running the Wondershare Filmora, select the ratio of your choice 4:3 or 16:9 for entering in the mode of editing. Click on the “Import” so you can add the photos, video and audio from the folder of your system. After importing the videos, drag and drop in the timeline. As a default, all the files get merged with one another with no gap.
Step 2: Right-click on the video clip from which you want to extract the audio. Select the option of “Detach Audio” from the menu. Instantly, an audio file is visible on the screen, and it is the original one from the source.
Step 3: Now, the audio track gets separated from the video successfully. Wondershare Filmora also offers to add one more audio file. Yes, it is also possible with this software.
Step 4: After separating the audio from the video, it is simple to delete the track, whether it is audio or video that is not in use or want to use. Click on the “Export” option for saving your required audio tracks, or you can even select the “iPod” for playing the audio. You can also save the audio file separately as the new file on your hard drive. After exporting the audio tracks, load the project file again that has the frames for the video and later export the video file.
Whenever you think about the compatibility of editing software with different operating systems, Wondershare Filmora comes to mind as the first choice. All the new features of Wondershare Filmora in its latest version have received positive feedback and reviews. Definitely, it is the actual replacement of the previously used editors such as video editor in Windows or iMovie in Mac.
Wondershare Filmora not only adds the animation but as well offers customization. Adding the keyframes is very easy for the user to change the positions, scale or rotate the clips. The feature of colour matching is also available so you can match the clips from one frame to another. Even the shortcut keys are available for all the commands that bring effective and efficient editing tasks.
Just little guidance and assistance can help you use the Wondershare Filmora as the options are suitable in front of your screen. No more waiting and thinking; start using this most straightforward editor and enjoy all the features of Wondershare Filmora.
How to Edit A Time Lapse Video on iPhone?
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Do you want to edit a time lapse video on an iPhone or want to know how to shoot a time-lapse video? If so, you’ve come to the right place.
Time-lapses, which show how much something changes over a period of time are some of the coolest videos you can make.
They aren’t exactly easy to make and edit at first, but we’ve put together this guide to take you through the steps. We’ll give you a few time lapse video ideas, steps to shoot them, and good practices for managing your footage after you’ve shot it.
Let’s get started.
What Is A Time Lapse Video?
In its simplest definition, a time lapse video is a cinematography technique where the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence.
When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. For example, an image of a scene may be captured once every second, then played back at 30 frames per second; the result is an apparent 30 times speed increase.
Time-lapse photography can be considered to be the opposite of slow motion.
How to Shoot A Time-Lapse Video?
Subjects to shoot in a time-lapse video
Wondering what can be shot in a time-lapse video? The answer is any subject that moves, grows, decays, or changes. But what’s more important than the subject is the motion and change that it goes through.
When shooting a time-lapse video, you are composing not only the shot but also the movement of the subject. If a subject doesn’t move or change throughout your film, then it is just a regular video. So try to think of subjects that are constantly moving or changing.
Time-Lapse videos are visually appealing and easy to make. When it comes to subjects that can be chosen to shoot in a time-lapse video, the possibilities are endless. But if you’re stuck for ideas, here are 10 suggestions to get you started:
1. Sunset/Sunrise
These are quite possibly the most common subjects for timelapse videos, but there’s a reason for it! Watching the sun go up and down is always mesmerizing.
2. Clouds
Clouds move very slowly most of the time, making them perfect for time-lapse sequences. You can shoot a single cloud passing overhead, or record a passing storm front as it sweeps across the sky. Depending on the weather conditions and movement of clouds, this can look stunning or simply spectacular!
3. Starry sky
Probably one of the most fascinating time lapse videos is the ones with stars on the move. Time-lapses that capture the Milky Way or starry sky are becoming increasingly popular as camera technology improves. There are even some cameras now that have built-in settings specifically for capturing stars and other celestial bodies.
4. Flowers
Flowers blooming is another fantastic subject for time-lapse photography. The change can be incredibly subtle; however, if you shoot a timelapse over several days or weeks, you will be amazed at just how much they grow and change!
5. Season changing
The most obvious example is trees budding and shedding leaves, but all sorts of plants and animals follow seasonal cycles. You can see flowers blooming, grasses growing, and migrating birds. Even if you don’t have a chance to go somewhere exotic for your subject matter, you can find something interesting right outside your own door.
6. Cars or Pedestrians
If you want something a little more exciting then you can choose things like cars passing by or people walking on the street.
7. Cooking dinner
Got a recipe for dinner that has lots of steps? Rather than just snap photos of the process, why not make a time-lapse video instead? It’s easy and fun to do, especially if you have kids who can help you out!
8. DIY projects
Are you building something? Whether it’s a new table, shelves, or whatever else, set up your camera and take photos as you go along in a time lapse mode and you’ll get a fun time lapse video. It works well to show people how it all came together.
9. Construction work in progress
If you’re watching construction work being done on your property or nearby, consider recording its time lapse video. It’s hard to imagine the amount of resources it takes to construct an office building or skyscraper before it’s finished. Time-lapse videos have helped reveal just how much work goes into something like that.
10. A fun art project
Capturing a time lapse video of an art project can make a mesmerizing video. Whether it’s you or someone else doing the artwork, always capture its time lapse video to show to others what goes into completing an art project. All you need to do is to set your camera up on a tripod aimed at the canvas and capture one or two frames per second to get an excellent time lapse video.
Steps to shoot a time-lapse video
Time-lapse videography is something that most photographers and videographers are familiar with. But, shooting a time-lapse video needs more than setting the camera on a tripod and waiting for it to shoot for several hours.
The amazing thing about time-lapse videos is that they can be shot using your smartphone. There are apps and built-in camera settings to capture time lapse videos with just a click of the button.
If you want to create a time-lapse video that is high quality, you have to use professional cameras, and learn some important steps.
1. Decide on a subject
The movement of clouds, a sunrise or sunset, waves crashing at the beach, cars coming and going in your parking lot, people walking around your office building — all of these subjects can yield great time-lapse sequences.
2. Find a place to set up your camera on tripod
While recording a time-lapse video, it’s important to keep the camera as stable as possible. It ensures a smooth video, making it visually appealing and easy to edit post-shooting. Typically, a tripod is needed for stable recording. If you are not using a tripod, find something steady and level to set it upon.
Important tip: Shoot only with manual settings. You don’t want the camera to adjust for you; rather, you should adjust the camera settings so that it takes optimal pictures. Even if you use auto mode, make sure you take control of the camera and push it to its limits to get great shots.
3. Set the camera focus
Use either autofocus or manual focus to make sure the camera is focused on what you want to be the main subject of the video.
4. Set your exposure settings
Depending on how much the light is going to change over time, you may want to use aperture priority or shutter priority so that the camera will automatically adjust for changes in light. Or, if you know exactly how much light will be changing over time, you could set all exposure settings manually.
5. Calculate how many frames and shots are needed
For example, if you are shooting at 10 frames per second and want a total of 30 seconds of video at 24 fps (which is standard), you will need 720 frames/photos (30 seconds x 24 fps = 720 frames).
6. Import and stitch together
Once you’ve captured the images, import them into a video editing software, stitch them together, and perform necessary editing.
How to Edit The Time Lapse on iPhone?
Now that you’ve recorded a time-lapse video, you might watch it and think it’s slower or faster than you want it to be. Fortunately, you can speed up and slow down the time lapse video on iPhone using iMovie.
Let’s see how to slow down time lapse on iPhone iMovie.
1. Speed up The Time Lapse on iPhone
So you’ve taken a time lapse video on your iPhone and now you’re trying to get it to speed up in iMovie but it looks a little jumpy or there is too much footage. Here’s how to do it in iMovie for iOS.
- Launch iMovie on your iPhone and start a new project to speed up the captured time-lapse video.
- Now, tap the plus sign visible at the start of the Projects screen, then select Movie.
- From the next window, find and select the recorded time-lapse video you want to speed up.
- Tap Create Movie button at the center-bottom of the screen.
- Now move the playhead to the start of the timeline and tap to select the video. At this point, you’ll see the timeline highlighted in yellow color.
- Look at the bottom of the screen and you’ll find the Speed icon. Tap the Speed icon and a sliding bar will appear with tortoise on its left side and hare on the right side.
- To speed up the time-lapse video, move the slider to the right side and you’ll see the duration of the video reduced, indicating time-lapse video has been sped up.
- Now click the Play button to preview and then tap Done.
Once you’ve increased the speed of time-lapse video, you can share it and post it where you want.
2. Slow Down The Time Lapse on iPhone
Just like you can speed up the time-lapse video on an iPhone, iMovie lets you slow down the time-lapse video.
Here’s how you can do it:
- Launch iMovie on your iPhone and start a new project to speed up the captured time-lapse video.
- Now, tap the plus sign visible at the start of the Projects screen, then select Movie.
- From the next window, find and select your recorded time-lapse video you want to speed up.
- Tap Create Movie button at the center-bottom of the screen.
- Now move the playhead to the start of the timeline and tap to select the video. At this point, you’ll see the timeline highlighted in yellow color.
- Look at the bottom of the screen and you’ll find the Speed icon. Tap the Speed icon and a sliding bar will appear with tortoise on its left side and hare on the right side.
- To slow down the time-lapse video, move the slider to the left side and you’ll see the duration of the video increased, indicating time-lapse video has been slowed down.
- Now click the Play button to preview and then tap Done.
Advanced Software: Edit A Time Lapse Video in Wondershare Filmora
If you have professionally captured RAW images of the time-lapse video, you need to use advanced software to stitch them together. That’s where Wondershare Filmora comes into play.
Wondershare Filmore is a professional video editing software with a wide variety of basic to advanced-level editing tools. It allows for turning RAW videos into fun, engaging, and professional videos.
If you need to refine your time-lapse video, you can use it and benefit from its capabilities. Similarly, you can use it to speed up or slow down your time-lapse video.
Let’s see how you can do both with Filmora.
Speed up your time-lapse video
Why speed up a time-lapse in the first place? There are a couple of reasons you might want to speed up your time-lapse.
When shooting with a fast lens, you might want to dial down the shutter speed to achieve more motion blur, to make the scenes more interesting. However, doing so can also create motion blur on time-lapse footage when sped up.
Another reason you might want to speed up your time-lapse is when you have too many frames. When you shoot at low frame rate (e.g. 15 FPS), not everyone will experience the same viewing quality if they don’t have high frame rate monitors. Speeding up the footage is one way to reduce the number of frames without compromising the quality of your video.
Follow these steps to speed up the time-lapse video using Filmora:
- Download and install Wondershare Filmora on your computer.
- Launch Filmora and click the New project button to open the video editor or drag and drop the file directly.
- Once imported, drag the file to the timeline.
- Click the Speed icon and select the Fast option. Select 2x, 4x, 8x, etc, depending on how much you want to speed up.
- Save the file and use it the way you want.
Slow down your time-lapse video
As the speed at which your time-lapse moves increases, so does the amount of motion blur. This can make for an undesirable look, especially in shots where there is already a lot of movement.
The best way to avoid this is to slow down your time-lapse as much as possible while still maintaining an interesting level of movement within your shot.
You can slow down your time-lapse video in Filmora following the same process as you’d do for speeding-up the video (Explained above). However, there’s only one catch; instead of opting for the Fast option choose Slow when you’re at step 4.
Conclusion
Hopefully, this guide has provided a good knowledge of how to put together your own time lapse video – and how to edit it on iPhone and Wondershare Filmora. It’s easier than you may think, and the resulting videos are quite impressive.
Take your time with it, record your movies from different angles, and don’t be afraid to create something unique and experimental.
Do you want to edit a time lapse video on an iPhone or want to know how to shoot a time-lapse video? If so, you’ve come to the right place.
Time-lapses, which show how much something changes over a period of time are some of the coolest videos you can make.
They aren’t exactly easy to make and edit at first, but we’ve put together this guide to take you through the steps. We’ll give you a few time lapse video ideas, steps to shoot them, and good practices for managing your footage after you’ve shot it.
Let’s get started.
What Is A Time Lapse Video?
In its simplest definition, a time lapse video is a cinematography technique where the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence.
When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. For example, an image of a scene may be captured once every second, then played back at 30 frames per second; the result is an apparent 30 times speed increase.
Time-lapse photography can be considered to be the opposite of slow motion.
How to Shoot A Time-Lapse Video?
Subjects to shoot in a time-lapse video
Wondering what can be shot in a time-lapse video? The answer is any subject that moves, grows, decays, or changes. But what’s more important than the subject is the motion and change that it goes through.
When shooting a time-lapse video, you are composing not only the shot but also the movement of the subject. If a subject doesn’t move or change throughout your film, then it is just a regular video. So try to think of subjects that are constantly moving or changing.
Time-Lapse videos are visually appealing and easy to make. When it comes to subjects that can be chosen to shoot in a time-lapse video, the possibilities are endless. But if you’re stuck for ideas, here are 10 suggestions to get you started:
1. Sunset/Sunrise
These are quite possibly the most common subjects for timelapse videos, but there’s a reason for it! Watching the sun go up and down is always mesmerizing.
2. Clouds
Clouds move very slowly most of the time, making them perfect for time-lapse sequences. You can shoot a single cloud passing overhead, or record a passing storm front as it sweeps across the sky. Depending on the weather conditions and movement of clouds, this can look stunning or simply spectacular!
3. Starry sky
Probably one of the most fascinating time lapse videos is the ones with stars on the move. Time-lapses that capture the Milky Way or starry sky are becoming increasingly popular as camera technology improves. There are even some cameras now that have built-in settings specifically for capturing stars and other celestial bodies.
4. Flowers
Flowers blooming is another fantastic subject for time-lapse photography. The change can be incredibly subtle; however, if you shoot a timelapse over several days or weeks, you will be amazed at just how much they grow and change!
5. Season changing
The most obvious example is trees budding and shedding leaves, but all sorts of plants and animals follow seasonal cycles. You can see flowers blooming, grasses growing, and migrating birds. Even if you don’t have a chance to go somewhere exotic for your subject matter, you can find something interesting right outside your own door.
6. Cars or Pedestrians
If you want something a little more exciting then you can choose things like cars passing by or people walking on the street.
7. Cooking dinner
Got a recipe for dinner that has lots of steps? Rather than just snap photos of the process, why not make a time-lapse video instead? It’s easy and fun to do, especially if you have kids who can help you out!
8. DIY projects
Are you building something? Whether it’s a new table, shelves, or whatever else, set up your camera and take photos as you go along in a time lapse mode and you’ll get a fun time lapse video. It works well to show people how it all came together.
9. Construction work in progress
If you’re watching construction work being done on your property or nearby, consider recording its time lapse video. It’s hard to imagine the amount of resources it takes to construct an office building or skyscraper before it’s finished. Time-lapse videos have helped reveal just how much work goes into something like that.
10. A fun art project
Capturing a time lapse video of an art project can make a mesmerizing video. Whether it’s you or someone else doing the artwork, always capture its time lapse video to show to others what goes into completing an art project. All you need to do is to set your camera up on a tripod aimed at the canvas and capture one or two frames per second to get an excellent time lapse video.
Steps to shoot a time-lapse video
Time-lapse videography is something that most photographers and videographers are familiar with. But, shooting a time-lapse video needs more than setting the camera on a tripod and waiting for it to shoot for several hours.
The amazing thing about time-lapse videos is that they can be shot using your smartphone. There are apps and built-in camera settings to capture time lapse videos with just a click of the button.
If you want to create a time-lapse video that is high quality, you have to use professional cameras, and learn some important steps.
1. Decide on a subject
The movement of clouds, a sunrise or sunset, waves crashing at the beach, cars coming and going in your parking lot, people walking around your office building — all of these subjects can yield great time-lapse sequences.
2. Find a place to set up your camera on tripod
While recording a time-lapse video, it’s important to keep the camera as stable as possible. It ensures a smooth video, making it visually appealing and easy to edit post-shooting. Typically, a tripod is needed for stable recording. If you are not using a tripod, find something steady and level to set it upon.
Important tip: Shoot only with manual settings. You don’t want the camera to adjust for you; rather, you should adjust the camera settings so that it takes optimal pictures. Even if you use auto mode, make sure you take control of the camera and push it to its limits to get great shots.
3. Set the camera focus
Use either autofocus or manual focus to make sure the camera is focused on what you want to be the main subject of the video.
4. Set your exposure settings
Depending on how much the light is going to change over time, you may want to use aperture priority or shutter priority so that the camera will automatically adjust for changes in light. Or, if you know exactly how much light will be changing over time, you could set all exposure settings manually.
5. Calculate how many frames and shots are needed
For example, if you are shooting at 10 frames per second and want a total of 30 seconds of video at 24 fps (which is standard), you will need 720 frames/photos (30 seconds x 24 fps = 720 frames).
6. Import and stitch together
Once you’ve captured the images, import them into a video editing software, stitch them together, and perform necessary editing.
How to Edit The Time Lapse on iPhone?
Now that you’ve recorded a time-lapse video, you might watch it and think it’s slower or faster than you want it to be. Fortunately, you can speed up and slow down the time lapse video on iPhone using iMovie.
Let’s see how to slow down time lapse on iPhone iMovie.
1. Speed up The Time Lapse on iPhone
So you’ve taken a time lapse video on your iPhone and now you’re trying to get it to speed up in iMovie but it looks a little jumpy or there is too much footage. Here’s how to do it in iMovie for iOS.
- Launch iMovie on your iPhone and start a new project to speed up the captured time-lapse video.
- Now, tap the plus sign visible at the start of the Projects screen, then select Movie.
- From the next window, find and select the recorded time-lapse video you want to speed up.
- Tap Create Movie button at the center-bottom of the screen.
- Now move the playhead to the start of the timeline and tap to select the video. At this point, you’ll see the timeline highlighted in yellow color.
- Look at the bottom of the screen and you’ll find the Speed icon. Tap the Speed icon and a sliding bar will appear with tortoise on its left side and hare on the right side.
- To speed up the time-lapse video, move the slider to the right side and you’ll see the duration of the video reduced, indicating time-lapse video has been sped up.
- Now click the Play button to preview and then tap Done.
Once you’ve increased the speed of time-lapse video, you can share it and post it where you want.
2. Slow Down The Time Lapse on iPhone
Just like you can speed up the time-lapse video on an iPhone, iMovie lets you slow down the time-lapse video.
Here’s how you can do it:
- Launch iMovie on your iPhone and start a new project to speed up the captured time-lapse video.
- Now, tap the plus sign visible at the start of the Projects screen, then select Movie.
- From the next window, find and select your recorded time-lapse video you want to speed up.
- Tap Create Movie button at the center-bottom of the screen.
- Now move the playhead to the start of the timeline and tap to select the video. At this point, you’ll see the timeline highlighted in yellow color.
- Look at the bottom of the screen and you’ll find the Speed icon. Tap the Speed icon and a sliding bar will appear with tortoise on its left side and hare on the right side.
- To slow down the time-lapse video, move the slider to the left side and you’ll see the duration of the video increased, indicating time-lapse video has been slowed down.
- Now click the Play button to preview and then tap Done.
Advanced Software: Edit A Time Lapse Video in Wondershare Filmora
If you have professionally captured RAW images of the time-lapse video, you need to use advanced software to stitch them together. That’s where Wondershare Filmora comes into play.
Wondershare Filmore is a professional video editing software with a wide variety of basic to advanced-level editing tools. It allows for turning RAW videos into fun, engaging, and professional videos.
If you need to refine your time-lapse video, you can use it and benefit from its capabilities. Similarly, you can use it to speed up or slow down your time-lapse video.
Let’s see how you can do both with Filmora.
Speed up your time-lapse video
Why speed up a time-lapse in the first place? There are a couple of reasons you might want to speed up your time-lapse.
When shooting with a fast lens, you might want to dial down the shutter speed to achieve more motion blur, to make the scenes more interesting. However, doing so can also create motion blur on time-lapse footage when sped up.
Another reason you might want to speed up your time-lapse is when you have too many frames. When you shoot at low frame rate (e.g. 15 FPS), not everyone will experience the same viewing quality if they don’t have high frame rate monitors. Speeding up the footage is one way to reduce the number of frames without compromising the quality of your video.
Follow these steps to speed up the time-lapse video using Filmora:
- Download and install Wondershare Filmora on your computer.
- Launch Filmora and click the New project button to open the video editor or drag and drop the file directly.
- Once imported, drag the file to the timeline.
- Click the Speed icon and select the Fast option. Select 2x, 4x, 8x, etc, depending on how much you want to speed up.
- Save the file and use it the way you want.
Slow down your time-lapse video
As the speed at which your time-lapse moves increases, so does the amount of motion blur. This can make for an undesirable look, especially in shots where there is already a lot of movement.
The best way to avoid this is to slow down your time-lapse as much as possible while still maintaining an interesting level of movement within your shot.
You can slow down your time-lapse video in Filmora following the same process as you’d do for speeding-up the video (Explained above). However, there’s only one catch; instead of opting for the Fast option choose Slow when you’re at step 4.
Conclusion
Hopefully, this guide has provided a good knowledge of how to put together your own time lapse video – and how to edit it on iPhone and Wondershare Filmora. It’s easier than you may think, and the resulting videos are quite impressive.
Take your time with it, record your movies from different angles, and don’t be afraid to create something unique and experimental.
Do you want to edit a time lapse video on an iPhone or want to know how to shoot a time-lapse video? If so, you’ve come to the right place.
Time-lapses, which show how much something changes over a period of time are some of the coolest videos you can make.
They aren’t exactly easy to make and edit at first, but we’ve put together this guide to take you through the steps. We’ll give you a few time lapse video ideas, steps to shoot them, and good practices for managing your footage after you’ve shot it.
Let’s get started.
What Is A Time Lapse Video?
In its simplest definition, a time lapse video is a cinematography technique where the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence.
When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. For example, an image of a scene may be captured once every second, then played back at 30 frames per second; the result is an apparent 30 times speed increase.
Time-lapse photography can be considered to be the opposite of slow motion.
How to Shoot A Time-Lapse Video?
Subjects to shoot in a time-lapse video
Wondering what can be shot in a time-lapse video? The answer is any subject that moves, grows, decays, or changes. But what’s more important than the subject is the motion and change that it goes through.
When shooting a time-lapse video, you are composing not only the shot but also the movement of the subject. If a subject doesn’t move or change throughout your film, then it is just a regular video. So try to think of subjects that are constantly moving or changing.
Time-Lapse videos are visually appealing and easy to make. When it comes to subjects that can be chosen to shoot in a time-lapse video, the possibilities are endless. But if you’re stuck for ideas, here are 10 suggestions to get you started:
1. Sunset/Sunrise
These are quite possibly the most common subjects for timelapse videos, but there’s a reason for it! Watching the sun go up and down is always mesmerizing.
2. Clouds
Clouds move very slowly most of the time, making them perfect for time-lapse sequences. You can shoot a single cloud passing overhead, or record a passing storm front as it sweeps across the sky. Depending on the weather conditions and movement of clouds, this can look stunning or simply spectacular!
3. Starry sky
Probably one of the most fascinating time lapse videos is the ones with stars on the move. Time-lapses that capture the Milky Way or starry sky are becoming increasingly popular as camera technology improves. There are even some cameras now that have built-in settings specifically for capturing stars and other celestial bodies.
4. Flowers
Flowers blooming is another fantastic subject for time-lapse photography. The change can be incredibly subtle; however, if you shoot a timelapse over several days or weeks, you will be amazed at just how much they grow and change!
5. Season changing
The most obvious example is trees budding and shedding leaves, but all sorts of plants and animals follow seasonal cycles. You can see flowers blooming, grasses growing, and migrating birds. Even if you don’t have a chance to go somewhere exotic for your subject matter, you can find something interesting right outside your own door.
6. Cars or Pedestrians
If you want something a little more exciting then you can choose things like cars passing by or people walking on the street.
7. Cooking dinner
Got a recipe for dinner that has lots of steps? Rather than just snap photos of the process, why not make a time-lapse video instead? It’s easy and fun to do, especially if you have kids who can help you out!
8. DIY projects
Are you building something? Whether it’s a new table, shelves, or whatever else, set up your camera and take photos as you go along in a time lapse mode and you’ll get a fun time lapse video. It works well to show people how it all came together.
9. Construction work in progress
If you’re watching construction work being done on your property or nearby, consider recording its time lapse video. It’s hard to imagine the amount of resources it takes to construct an office building or skyscraper before it’s finished. Time-lapse videos have helped reveal just how much work goes into something like that.
10. A fun art project
Capturing a time lapse video of an art project can make a mesmerizing video. Whether it’s you or someone else doing the artwork, always capture its time lapse video to show to others what goes into completing an art project. All you need to do is to set your camera up on a tripod aimed at the canvas and capture one or two frames per second to get an excellent time lapse video.
Steps to shoot a time-lapse video
Time-lapse videography is something that most photographers and videographers are familiar with. But, shooting a time-lapse video needs more than setting the camera on a tripod and waiting for it to shoot for several hours.
The amazing thing about time-lapse videos is that they can be shot using your smartphone. There are apps and built-in camera settings to capture time lapse videos with just a click of the button.
If you want to create a time-lapse video that is high quality, you have to use professional cameras, and learn some important steps.
1. Decide on a subject
The movement of clouds, a sunrise or sunset, waves crashing at the beach, cars coming and going in your parking lot, people walking around your office building — all of these subjects can yield great time-lapse sequences.
2. Find a place to set up your camera on tripod
While recording a time-lapse video, it’s important to keep the camera as stable as possible. It ensures a smooth video, making it visually appealing and easy to edit post-shooting. Typically, a tripod is needed for stable recording. If you are not using a tripod, find something steady and level to set it upon.
Important tip: Shoot only with manual settings. You don’t want the camera to adjust for you; rather, you should adjust the camera settings so that it takes optimal pictures. Even if you use auto mode, make sure you take control of the camera and push it to its limits to get great shots.
3. Set the camera focus
Use either autofocus or manual focus to make sure the camera is focused on what you want to be the main subject of the video.
4. Set your exposure settings
Depending on how much the light is going to change over time, you may want to use aperture priority or shutter priority so that the camera will automatically adjust for changes in light. Or, if you know exactly how much light will be changing over time, you could set all exposure settings manually.
5. Calculate how many frames and shots are needed
For example, if you are shooting at 10 frames per second and want a total of 30 seconds of video at 24 fps (which is standard), you will need 720 frames/photos (30 seconds x 24 fps = 720 frames).
6. Import and stitch together
Once you’ve captured the images, import them into a video editing software, stitch them together, and perform necessary editing.
How to Edit The Time Lapse on iPhone?
Now that you’ve recorded a time-lapse video, you might watch it and think it’s slower or faster than you want it to be. Fortunately, you can speed up and slow down the time lapse video on iPhone using iMovie.
Let’s see how to slow down time lapse on iPhone iMovie.
1. Speed up The Time Lapse on iPhone
So you’ve taken a time lapse video on your iPhone and now you’re trying to get it to speed up in iMovie but it looks a little jumpy or there is too much footage. Here’s how to do it in iMovie for iOS.
- Launch iMovie on your iPhone and start a new project to speed up the captured time-lapse video.
- Now, tap the plus sign visible at the start of the Projects screen, then select Movie.
- From the next window, find and select the recorded time-lapse video you want to speed up.
- Tap Create Movie button at the center-bottom of the screen.
- Now move the playhead to the start of the timeline and tap to select the video. At this point, you’ll see the timeline highlighted in yellow color.
- Look at the bottom of the screen and you’ll find the Speed icon. Tap the Speed icon and a sliding bar will appear with tortoise on its left side and hare on the right side.
- To speed up the time-lapse video, move the slider to the right side and you’ll see the duration of the video reduced, indicating time-lapse video has been sped up.
- Now click the Play button to preview and then tap Done.
Once you’ve increased the speed of time-lapse video, you can share it and post it where you want.
2. Slow Down The Time Lapse on iPhone
Just like you can speed up the time-lapse video on an iPhone, iMovie lets you slow down the time-lapse video.
Here’s how you can do it:
- Launch iMovie on your iPhone and start a new project to speed up the captured time-lapse video.
- Now, tap the plus sign visible at the start of the Projects screen, then select Movie.
- From the next window, find and select your recorded time-lapse video you want to speed up.
- Tap Create Movie button at the center-bottom of the screen.
- Now move the playhead to the start of the timeline and tap to select the video. At this point, you’ll see the timeline highlighted in yellow color.
- Look at the bottom of the screen and you’ll find the Speed icon. Tap the Speed icon and a sliding bar will appear with tortoise on its left side and hare on the right side.
- To slow down the time-lapse video, move the slider to the left side and you’ll see the duration of the video increased, indicating time-lapse video has been slowed down.
- Now click the Play button to preview and then tap Done.
Advanced Software: Edit A Time Lapse Video in Wondershare Filmora
If you have professionally captured RAW images of the time-lapse video, you need to use advanced software to stitch them together. That’s where Wondershare Filmora comes into play.
Wondershare Filmore is a professional video editing software with a wide variety of basic to advanced-level editing tools. It allows for turning RAW videos into fun, engaging, and professional videos.
If you need to refine your time-lapse video, you can use it and benefit from its capabilities. Similarly, you can use it to speed up or slow down your time-lapse video.
Let’s see how you can do both with Filmora.
Speed up your time-lapse video
Why speed up a time-lapse in the first place? There are a couple of reasons you might want to speed up your time-lapse.
When shooting with a fast lens, you might want to dial down the shutter speed to achieve more motion blur, to make the scenes more interesting. However, doing so can also create motion blur on time-lapse footage when sped up.
Another reason you might want to speed up your time-lapse is when you have too many frames. When you shoot at low frame rate (e.g. 15 FPS), not everyone will experience the same viewing quality if they don’t have high frame rate monitors. Speeding up the footage is one way to reduce the number of frames without compromising the quality of your video.
Follow these steps to speed up the time-lapse video using Filmora:
- Download and install Wondershare Filmora on your computer.
- Launch Filmora and click the New project button to open the video editor or drag and drop the file directly.
- Once imported, drag the file to the timeline.
- Click the Speed icon and select the Fast option. Select 2x, 4x, 8x, etc, depending on how much you want to speed up.
- Save the file and use it the way you want.
Slow down your time-lapse video
As the speed at which your time-lapse moves increases, so does the amount of motion blur. This can make for an undesirable look, especially in shots where there is already a lot of movement.
The best way to avoid this is to slow down your time-lapse as much as possible while still maintaining an interesting level of movement within your shot.
You can slow down your time-lapse video in Filmora following the same process as you’d do for speeding-up the video (Explained above). However, there’s only one catch; instead of opting for the Fast option choose Slow when you’re at step 4.
Conclusion
Hopefully, this guide has provided a good knowledge of how to put together your own time lapse video – and how to edit it on iPhone and Wondershare Filmora. It’s easier than you may think, and the resulting videos are quite impressive.
Take your time with it, record your movies from different angles, and don’t be afraid to create something unique and experimental.
Do you want to edit a time lapse video on an iPhone or want to know how to shoot a time-lapse video? If so, you’ve come to the right place.
Time-lapses, which show how much something changes over a period of time are some of the coolest videos you can make.
They aren’t exactly easy to make and edit at first, but we’ve put together this guide to take you through the steps. We’ll give you a few time lapse video ideas, steps to shoot them, and good practices for managing your footage after you’ve shot it.
Let’s get started.
What Is A Time Lapse Video?
In its simplest definition, a time lapse video is a cinematography technique where the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence.
When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. For example, an image of a scene may be captured once every second, then played back at 30 frames per second; the result is an apparent 30 times speed increase.
Time-lapse photography can be considered to be the opposite of slow motion.
How to Shoot A Time-Lapse Video?
Subjects to shoot in a time-lapse video
Wondering what can be shot in a time-lapse video? The answer is any subject that moves, grows, decays, or changes. But what’s more important than the subject is the motion and change that it goes through.
When shooting a time-lapse video, you are composing not only the shot but also the movement of the subject. If a subject doesn’t move or change throughout your film, then it is just a regular video. So try to think of subjects that are constantly moving or changing.
Time-Lapse videos are visually appealing and easy to make. When it comes to subjects that can be chosen to shoot in a time-lapse video, the possibilities are endless. But if you’re stuck for ideas, here are 10 suggestions to get you started:
1. Sunset/Sunrise
These are quite possibly the most common subjects for timelapse videos, but there’s a reason for it! Watching the sun go up and down is always mesmerizing.
2. Clouds
Clouds move very slowly most of the time, making them perfect for time-lapse sequences. You can shoot a single cloud passing overhead, or record a passing storm front as it sweeps across the sky. Depending on the weather conditions and movement of clouds, this can look stunning or simply spectacular!
3. Starry sky
Probably one of the most fascinating time lapse videos is the ones with stars on the move. Time-lapses that capture the Milky Way or starry sky are becoming increasingly popular as camera technology improves. There are even some cameras now that have built-in settings specifically for capturing stars and other celestial bodies.
4. Flowers
Flowers blooming is another fantastic subject for time-lapse photography. The change can be incredibly subtle; however, if you shoot a timelapse over several days or weeks, you will be amazed at just how much they grow and change!
5. Season changing
The most obvious example is trees budding and shedding leaves, but all sorts of plants and animals follow seasonal cycles. You can see flowers blooming, grasses growing, and migrating birds. Even if you don’t have a chance to go somewhere exotic for your subject matter, you can find something interesting right outside your own door.
6. Cars or Pedestrians
If you want something a little more exciting then you can choose things like cars passing by or people walking on the street.
7. Cooking dinner
Got a recipe for dinner that has lots of steps? Rather than just snap photos of the process, why not make a time-lapse video instead? It’s easy and fun to do, especially if you have kids who can help you out!
8. DIY projects
Are you building something? Whether it’s a new table, shelves, or whatever else, set up your camera and take photos as you go along in a time lapse mode and you’ll get a fun time lapse video. It works well to show people how it all came together.
9. Construction work in progress
If you’re watching construction work being done on your property or nearby, consider recording its time lapse video. It’s hard to imagine the amount of resources it takes to construct an office building or skyscraper before it’s finished. Time-lapse videos have helped reveal just how much work goes into something like that.
10. A fun art project
Capturing a time lapse video of an art project can make a mesmerizing video. Whether it’s you or someone else doing the artwork, always capture its time lapse video to show to others what goes into completing an art project. All you need to do is to set your camera up on a tripod aimed at the canvas and capture one or two frames per second to get an excellent time lapse video.
Steps to shoot a time-lapse video
Time-lapse videography is something that most photographers and videographers are familiar with. But, shooting a time-lapse video needs more than setting the camera on a tripod and waiting for it to shoot for several hours.
The amazing thing about time-lapse videos is that they can be shot using your smartphone. There are apps and built-in camera settings to capture time lapse videos with just a click of the button.
If you want to create a time-lapse video that is high quality, you have to use professional cameras, and learn some important steps.
1. Decide on a subject
The movement of clouds, a sunrise or sunset, waves crashing at the beach, cars coming and going in your parking lot, people walking around your office building — all of these subjects can yield great time-lapse sequences.
2. Find a place to set up your camera on tripod
While recording a time-lapse video, it’s important to keep the camera as stable as possible. It ensures a smooth video, making it visually appealing and easy to edit post-shooting. Typically, a tripod is needed for stable recording. If you are not using a tripod, find something steady and level to set it upon.
Important tip: Shoot only with manual settings. You don’t want the camera to adjust for you; rather, you should adjust the camera settings so that it takes optimal pictures. Even if you use auto mode, make sure you take control of the camera and push it to its limits to get great shots.
3. Set the camera focus
Use either autofocus or manual focus to make sure the camera is focused on what you want to be the main subject of the video.
4. Set your exposure settings
Depending on how much the light is going to change over time, you may want to use aperture priority or shutter priority so that the camera will automatically adjust for changes in light. Or, if you know exactly how much light will be changing over time, you could set all exposure settings manually.
5. Calculate how many frames and shots are needed
For example, if you are shooting at 10 frames per second and want a total of 30 seconds of video at 24 fps (which is standard), you will need 720 frames/photos (30 seconds x 24 fps = 720 frames).
6. Import and stitch together
Once you’ve captured the images, import them into a video editing software, stitch them together, and perform necessary editing.
How to Edit The Time Lapse on iPhone?
Now that you’ve recorded a time-lapse video, you might watch it and think it’s slower or faster than you want it to be. Fortunately, you can speed up and slow down the time lapse video on iPhone using iMovie.
Let’s see how to slow down time lapse on iPhone iMovie.
1. Speed up The Time Lapse on iPhone
So you’ve taken a time lapse video on your iPhone and now you’re trying to get it to speed up in iMovie but it looks a little jumpy or there is too much footage. Here’s how to do it in iMovie for iOS.
- Launch iMovie on your iPhone and start a new project to speed up the captured time-lapse video.
- Now, tap the plus sign visible at the start of the Projects screen, then select Movie.
- From the next window, find and select the recorded time-lapse video you want to speed up.
- Tap Create Movie button at the center-bottom of the screen.
- Now move the playhead to the start of the timeline and tap to select the video. At this point, you’ll see the timeline highlighted in yellow color.
- Look at the bottom of the screen and you’ll find the Speed icon. Tap the Speed icon and a sliding bar will appear with tortoise on its left side and hare on the right side.
- To speed up the time-lapse video, move the slider to the right side and you’ll see the duration of the video reduced, indicating time-lapse video has been sped up.
- Now click the Play button to preview and then tap Done.
Once you’ve increased the speed of time-lapse video, you can share it and post it where you want.
2. Slow Down The Time Lapse on iPhone
Just like you can speed up the time-lapse video on an iPhone, iMovie lets you slow down the time-lapse video.
Here’s how you can do it:
- Launch iMovie on your iPhone and start a new project to speed up the captured time-lapse video.
- Now, tap the plus sign visible at the start of the Projects screen, then select Movie.
- From the next window, find and select your recorded time-lapse video you want to speed up.
- Tap Create Movie button at the center-bottom of the screen.
- Now move the playhead to the start of the timeline and tap to select the video. At this point, you’ll see the timeline highlighted in yellow color.
- Look at the bottom of the screen and you’ll find the Speed icon. Tap the Speed icon and a sliding bar will appear with tortoise on its left side and hare on the right side.
- To slow down the time-lapse video, move the slider to the left side and you’ll see the duration of the video increased, indicating time-lapse video has been slowed down.
- Now click the Play button to preview and then tap Done.
Advanced Software: Edit A Time Lapse Video in Wondershare Filmora
If you have professionally captured RAW images of the time-lapse video, you need to use advanced software to stitch them together. That’s where Wondershare Filmora comes into play.
Wondershare Filmore is a professional video editing software with a wide variety of basic to advanced-level editing tools. It allows for turning RAW videos into fun, engaging, and professional videos.
If you need to refine your time-lapse video, you can use it and benefit from its capabilities. Similarly, you can use it to speed up or slow down your time-lapse video.
Let’s see how you can do both with Filmora.
Speed up your time-lapse video
Why speed up a time-lapse in the first place? There are a couple of reasons you might want to speed up your time-lapse.
When shooting with a fast lens, you might want to dial down the shutter speed to achieve more motion blur, to make the scenes more interesting. However, doing so can also create motion blur on time-lapse footage when sped up.
Another reason you might want to speed up your time-lapse is when you have too many frames. When you shoot at low frame rate (e.g. 15 FPS), not everyone will experience the same viewing quality if they don’t have high frame rate monitors. Speeding up the footage is one way to reduce the number of frames without compromising the quality of your video.
Follow these steps to speed up the time-lapse video using Filmora:
- Download and install Wondershare Filmora on your computer.
- Launch Filmora and click the New project button to open the video editor or drag and drop the file directly.
- Once imported, drag the file to the timeline.
- Click the Speed icon and select the Fast option. Select 2x, 4x, 8x, etc, depending on how much you want to speed up.
- Save the file and use it the way you want.
Slow down your time-lapse video
As the speed at which your time-lapse moves increases, so does the amount of motion blur. This can make for an undesirable look, especially in shots where there is already a lot of movement.
The best way to avoid this is to slow down your time-lapse as much as possible while still maintaining an interesting level of movement within your shot.
You can slow down your time-lapse video in Filmora following the same process as you’d do for speeding-up the video (Explained above). However, there’s only one catch; instead of opting for the Fast option choose Slow when you’re at step 4.
Conclusion
Hopefully, this guide has provided a good knowledge of how to put together your own time lapse video – and how to edit it on iPhone and Wondershare Filmora. It’s easier than you may think, and the resulting videos are quite impressive.
Take your time with it, record your movies from different angles, and don’t be afraid to create something unique and experimental.
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