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Unfortunately, not anybody can appearance Apple's (AAPL, Tech30) new Live Photos. But anybody can adore an activated GIF.
Live Photos are a adorable little mashup of videos and photos attempt on the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. When you tap and authority on a still image, it springs to activity as a three-second video.
They can alone be beheld on Apple accessories active iOS 9 or later, or on Macs active OS X El Capitan (launching September 30). A cardinal of third parties are alive to abutment Live Photos by the holidays, including Facebook (FB, Tech30) and Getty Images.
Until then, this workaround lets you allotment the video allocation with bodies on PCs or Android devices, and on Twitter (TWTR, Tech30), Facebook, Tumblr or Instagram.
Free the video
Each Live Photo is absolutely a MOV and a JPG book arranged calm with some abstruse Apple magic. If you allotment a Live Photo over email or argument with addition who isn't on a accordant Apple device, they alone accept the still image.
To abstract the MOV file, bung your buzz into a Mac and accessible Angel Capture. It shows both files separately. Locate the MOV book you appetite and acceptation it to your computer.
If you appetite to appearance it afterpiece to how it appears on the iPhone 6S -- a still angel that starts affective -- and don't affliction about audio, there's addition option. Bung in your 6S to a Mac, accessible QuickTime Player and go to Book --> New Cine Recording. Select your iPhone as the source, and hit almanac while you columnist and authority on a Live Photo.
Enjoy the movie
At this point, you accept a accessible cine book that can be beheld on best platforms or can be adapted into added video formats. And clashing a GIF, it still includes audio. Tweet it, Facebook it, argument it to your dad's Android smartphone. On average, the MOV files are about 3.5 MB, the aforementioned admeasurement as a still iPhone photo.
But if the attraction of the activated GIF is too able to abide ...
Pick a GIF maker
The Live Photo videos are about 14 frames per second, a abundant starting point for a GIF.
There are a cardinal of accoutrement and websites for axis cine files into GIFs. Photoshop gives you the best control, but not anybody has it. I absolutely like the $4.99 GIFBrewery tool, accessible in the Apple App Store and for PCs. Acceptation your MOV.
Minimize the size
The MOV files absolutely accomplish for actual ample GIFs if you don't compress them down. When created after any changes, my aboriginal GIFs were a whopping 12 MB.
Let's accomplish them baby abundant to upload to the centermost of the GIF universe, Tumblr. Currently, a GIF charge be beneath 2 MB and 500 pixels for Tumblr. Start by shrinking the book to 500 pixels. You can added compress it bottomward by accent the breadth of the GIF or abbreviation the cardinal of colors. Save and share.
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