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# I grabbed the video from YouTube (using keepvid)
converted the flv to avi using total video convertor and cropped to the frames I wanted using VirtualDub. Loaded the avi into corel photopaint and used that to edit the last frame to remove W and clone in the background. Saved out as a new avi to keep the quality and they optimized using Ulead GIF animator adding the scan lines by creating a custom fill in Photoshop and adding to the final animation.

Simple really. :)
(I helped save b3ta! Lazlo Woodbine Panowie!, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 23:17, archived)
#
Good lord!
(I helped save b3ta! whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 23:19, archived)
# I know.
There's probably a far easier way than this but I like it because it keeps the quality throughout as much as possible.

I also forgot to mention I had to remove every other frame to bring the filesize down. The original gif was nearly 2 meg and board nazis would have spanked me.
(I helped save b3ta! Lazlo Woodbine Panowie!, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 23:21, archived)
# This is a useful site:
video2gif.leechvideo.com/

Not great quality but very quick and painless
(I helped save b3ta! BubaMan 3 conspiracy nuts walk into a bar... Coincidence?, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 23:20, archived)
# I've tried those types of site before
and like you say the quality isn't that great. I like to keep the quality as good as possible up until it's optimized, makes the final version look better, imo.
(I helped save b3ta! Lazlo Woodbine Panowie!, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 23:22, archived)
# True enough
I've got great results by putting KeepVid's flv files into VLC Media Player (are you getting the "free" theme of my software collection) then whilst playing in slow motion repeatedly getting snapshots.
I don't know which method is more of a pain - yours or mine.
(I helped save b3ta! BubaMan 3 conspiracy nuts walk into a bar... Coincidence?, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 23:26, archived)
# Honestly the part that took the longest
was cutting gorgeous George out and cloning in the background. All the converting was done in less that 10 minutes and the optimizing in about the same.

Plus, all the software I mentioned is free, if you know where to look. ;)

Although Media Player Classic lets you save a video as a single image of thumbnails if you felt like cropping each one and pasting individually into a single animated gif. But that is really tedious.
(I helped save b3ta! Lazlo Woodbine Panowie!, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 23:33, archived)