>>5182913Capturing frames
Use PotPlayer or another video player that lets you capture multiple frames.
In PotPlayer, press ctrl+g to bring up this dialog.
To save time, I set it to capture 250 frames, which should be enough to cover the time span of most gifs.
Removing excess frames
Make a copy of your frames folder, incase your gif requires all the frames to remain acceptably smooth
Delete everyother frame. Do this easily by opening windows explorer and resizing the window so you have two columns, drag and select one column for deletion.
Use Photoscape to make the gif.
If there are extra frames I need to remove at the beginning/end, I write which frames I remove down since I might remove too much and need to reload the list of frames.
Play with the time to make sure it cycles though the frames at a good speed.
Use the "Web browser preview" when you think the speed is good, since browsers might play it a little faster.
If you can, delete frames at the end to try and make the difference between the first and last frame as small as possible. This will avoid awkward jumps when the gif restarts.
Use the resize ratio to get the gif to save under the 4KB limit. (When you save, photoscap nicely tell you the size).
Get it as close to the limit as you can, so you have a nice size.
If you need to make the gif smaller than 200x200 to reach the size limit, then you have too many frames.
