I chose to extract my GIF from “Cool Hand Luke” starring Paul Newman. I highly recommend the movie, and without ruining it, the above GIF is from a scene where Luke, Paul Newman’s character, is eating 50 hard-boiled eggs as part of a bet he made and the whole prison population has money on either his success or failure.

I originally intended to use a different scene, where Luke says “Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand,” after bluffing his way into winning a prison poker match, but it was too long and I opted for a scene that I felt was better suited for this format. I utilized the tutorial from the ds106 website and since I already had the movie in a digital format, I cut it down to size in windows movie maker before pulling it into MPEG Streamclip because I noticed some serious lag when I pulled the whole movie in initially. Following the tutorial, I then took the finished product from Streamclip and pulled it into GIMP to compile my individual JPEG’s into an animated GIF.

Before realizing there was a tutorial, I opted to do what I usually do which is google “How to (insert problem here),” in this case “How to make a GIF from video,” which led my to gifnija. So I took the trimmed video clip from windows movie maker, uploaded it to gifninja, and this was the final product:

I really wasn’t happy with the quality and wouldn’t recommend this method, even though it is easier and faster.