Instagiffer: create animated gif images with captions and effects

Animated gifs can be quite funny at times, or deeply annoying, for instance when users on your favorite forum use them as forum signatures. A single animated gif on a web page can slow down the loading of the page seriously, as it is not seldom that their size exceeds a couple of hundred Kilobytes.
I have reviewed a couple of tools in the recent past that help you create animated gifs easily. From the sophisticated Qgifer to the cross-platform application Gifted Motion.
The free application Instagiffer for Windows handles things a bit different, and while that makes a couple of things more complicated, it does improve others.
Instagiffer review
Once you have installed the program on your system and started it up, you get the option to load a local video, use a YouTube video as your source, or capture the screen. The first two options should be self-explanatory, while the capture option may require some explanation.
When you click on Capture Screen, the program spawns a second smaller window that you can move around and resize to fit a particular size. It enables you to capture anything happening under the window's area. This can be quite useful to create a fast tutorial or capture some other activities on the screen.
The video that you have picked using one of the options is loaded afterwards in the main interface. Now, what is not so good is that you cannot browse the video directly. What you need to do is select a start time and duration, and only that part of the video is displayed then in the preview in the interface.
Probably the best way to tackle this is to load a local video in the video player to preview it so that you can find the right start time for your animated gif.
You can go through each frame the animated gif will be made of using the sliders at the bottom. Once you have found the right clip, you can start to manipulate a couple of parameters:
- Smoothness - Determines the fps and has therefore also a direct impact on the resulting file size and smoothness of the animation.
- Frame Size - increases or decreases the resolution of the animated gif.
- Quality - determines the quality of the gif.
- Brightness - make the image brighter or darker.
- Playback Rate - How fast or slow the animation is played back.
- Effects - Enables you to add Enhance, Color Fade, Black & Wide, Sepia, Oil Paining or Fade Edges effects to the gif and even combine them.
- Caption - Add one or multiple captions to the gif. This includes picking a font and size, styles, selecting the location of it and making it blink, or not.
Another interesting option that you can only use part of the video resolution for the animated gif. If you have a 1080p video for instance, you can select to create the animated gif from a much smaller part of it to save space or set the focus on that part of the action.
Verdict
If you like to create animated gifs from time to time, or want to start that habit, then you may certainly find Instagiffer useful for that task. The application offers some cool features, like the ability to capture the screen, or add captions and other effects to the video.
The only thing that is a let down is the missing preview option of video source, as you have to use a third party program for that.






What mental age of reader are you targeting with the first sentence? 10?
Why not write an article on how to *avoid* upgrading from W10 to W11. Analogous to those like me who avoided upgrading from 7 to 10 for as long as possible.
If your paymaster Microsoft permits it, of course.
5. Rufus
6. Ventoy
PS. I hate reading these “SEO optimized” articles.
I used Rufus to create an installer for a 6th gen intel i5 that had MBR. It upgraded using Setup. No issues except for Win 11 always prompting me to replace my local account. Still using Win 10 Pro on all my other PCs to avoid the bullying.
bit pointless to upgrade for the sake of upgrading as you never know when you’ll get locked out because ms might suddenly not provide updates to unsupported systems.
ps…. time travelling?
written. Jan 15, 2023
Updated • Jan 13, 2023
This happens when you schedule a post in WordPress and update it before setting the publication date.
Anyone willing to downgrade to this awful OS must like inflicting themselves with harm.
I have become convinced now that anybody who has no qualms with using Windows 11/10 must fit into one of the following brackets:
1) Too young to remember a time before W10 and W11 (doesn’t know better)
2) Wants to play the latest games on their PC above anything else (or deeply needs some software which already dropped W7 support)
3) Doesn’t know too much about how computers work, worried that they’d be absolutely lost and in trouble without the “”latest security””
4) Microsoft apologist that tries to justify that the latest “features” and “changes” are actually a good thing, that improve Windows
5) Uses their computer to do a bare minimum of like 3 different things, browse web, check emails, etc, so really doesn’t fuss
Obviously that doesn’t cover everyone, there’s also the category that:
6) Actually liked W7 more than 10, and held out as long as possible before switching, begrudgingly uses 10 now
Have I missed any group off this list?
You have missed in this group just about any professional user that uses business software like CAD programs or ERP Programs which are 99% of all professional users from this list.
Linux doesn’t help anyone who is not a linux kid and apple is just a fancy facebook machine.
Microsoft has removed KB5029351 update
only from windows update though
KB5029351 is still available from the ms update catalog site
1. This update is labaled as PREVIEW if it causes issues to unintelligent people, then they shouldn’t have allowed Preview updates ot install.
2. I have installed it in a 11 years old computer, and no problems at all.
3. Making a big drama over a bluescreen for an updated labeled as preview is ridiculous.
This is probably another BS internet drama where people ran programs and scripts that modified the registry until they broke Windows, just for removing stuff that they weren’t even using just for the sake of it.
Maybe people should stop playing geeks and actually either use Windows 10 or Windows 11, but don’t try to modify things just for the sake of it.
Sometimes removing or stopping things (like defender is a perfect example) only need intelligence, not scripts or 3rd party programs that might mess with windows.
Windows 11 was a pointless release, it was just created because some of the Windows team wanted to boost sales with some sort of new and improved Windows 10. Instead, Microsoft cannot support one version well let alone two.
Windows 11 is the worst ugly shame by Microsoft ever. They should release with every new W11 version a complete free version of Starallback inside just to make this sh** OS functionally again.
motherboard maker MSI has recently released a statement regarding the “unsupported processor” blue screen error for their boards using Intel 600/700 series chipsets & to avoid the KB5029351 Win11 update:
https://www.msi.com/news/detail/MSI-On–UNSUPPORTED-PROCESSOR–Error-Message-of-Windows-11-Update-KB5029351-Preview-142215
check out the following recent articles:
Neowin – Microsoft puts little blame on its Windows update after UNSUPPORTED PROCESSOR BSOD bug:
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-puts-little-blame-on-its-windows-update-after-unsupported-processor-bsod-bug/
BleepingComputer – Microsoft blames ‘unsupported processor’ blue screens on OEM vendors:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-blames-unsupported-processor-blue-screens-on-oem-vendors/
While there may be changes or updates to the Windows 10 Store for Business and Education in the future, it is premature to conclude that it will be discontinued based solely on rumors.
My advice, I left win 15 years ago. Now I’m a happy linux user (linuxmint) but there is Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu depending on your needs.
motherboard maker MSI has recently released new BIOS/firmware updates for their Intel 600 & 700 series motherboards to fix the “UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR” problem (Sept. 6):
https://www.msi.com/news/detail/Updated-BIOS-fixes-Error-Message–UNSUPPORTED-PROCESSOR–caused-BSOD-on-MSI-s-Intel-700-and-600-Series-Motherboards-142277
I try to disable the Diagnostics Tracking Service (Connected Devices Platform User Services) but it wont let me disable it, any help will be greatly appreciated.
Tank you for your help