Hi, anyone know how I can easily create short little videos/GIFs that show me clicking around a website with zoom in and out?<p>I'm working on a help section and I would like to add more than just static screenshots.
Firstly I'd suggest getting a screen recorder for your OS. There are quite a lot of good ones out there, even non root ones for Android.<p>I'm happy to recommend some for Linux and Android if you need me to.<p>After that there are several tools to convert your video into a GIF. Do be aware of the colour limitations of GIFs however.
If you want easy: GifCam (make sure to get from the official dev [0]). It lacks zoom in/out features but is one of the easiest way to creates gifs on Windows.<p>If you want zoom in/out (not as easy) you'll need to record a video where this is a feature, then convert the video to a .gif. I know Camtasia Studio can do this. I never found it all that intuitive and it would often zoom when I didn't want it to, but I didn't spend long learning the specifics so I factor that as user error.<p>[0] <a href="http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/</a>