How to export an animated GIF from After Effects

[ShiveringCactus]

An investigation into all the different ways to make animated image files.

Turns out there is more than one option to create a GIF from After Effects. In this video, I run an example H.264 MP4 video through all the different options I could find. And all the differences within those options. After Effects does not natively create animated GIFs, but Adobe Media Encoder does, so I take a look at those settings.

I also check out Adobe Photoshop's options. And I compare the new Creative Cloud Express online service to Giphy.

Finally, I do look at a way of making GIFs directly in After Effects, using AE Juice.

Hopefully by the end of this video, all your questions will be answered - except for why I use all caps for filenames!

You can check out a gallery of the GIFs I made on this page:

https://shiveringcactus.net/2022/06/24/how-to-export-an-animated-gif-from-adobe-after-effects/

[Rameez_Khan]

Hi @ShiveringCactus, 

Love the video. ❣️

Thanks for creating this. 

I'll link it to the other threads on the same topic. 

Best,

Rameez