I created the same video three times, compressing it to 10 seconds in length and using the small / medium / large file size compressions: Small GIF – 9.8MB Medium GIF – 37.7MB Large GIF – 134MB For reference, the original video was 13 seconds long (so I ‘speed it up slightly’ and was only 11.8MB in size. I tested this with a short video I made of a hike to Foggy Peak I completed recently and I will share the results with you below. Often, however, you’re wanting a GIF of a video media file and this can be quite a different thing altogether to make these quickly and compress to a file size that is acceptable for load times. I was pleased, therefore, when I came across this Office Insider article showing that since late 2019 the ability to export slides as GIF inside PowerPoint could achieve what I wanted! There is also the official Office Support article to assist, and I gave this ago to create the above and it worked seamlessly. I’ve occasionally used some of the free, online GIF makers on the web, but they typically brand your image with their watermark – something I generally prefer to avoid if I can. Of course, you can create a YouTube Video and embed, but often a short, animated image is a quicker way to get the point across – to wit, the GIF above showing my PowerPoint visualisation. When you write a lot of blogs, animated GIF can often be your friend. If you’re wanting to give this a go, then I’ve uploaded my PPTX file that you can get a copy of and tweak the settings here: Set the animation on the top circle to Wheel and then choose your time preference. Problem solved (albeit, requiring delving into sub menus of PowerPoint! Howard also offered a great suggestion for the second timer visualisation:Īnother nice way to do it is to create 2 circles the same size (like a clock face) and place them on top of each other. For example, if you wanted the slide indicator to show for 5mins then you’d choose 300 seconds:
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